Electrical Maintenance Technician

Job Description

REED Engineering & Manufacturing are working with a leading Engineering & Manufacturing company.DAYS ONLY ELECTRICAL MAINTENANCE ENGINEERJob SummaryResponsible for the engineering maintenance activities within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment.Providing a proactive service which contributes towards reducing downtime, improving plant performance and reliabilityusing preventative and predictive maintenance methods and techniques.You will be highly motivated, with a ‘can do’ attitude towards your work, as well as having a degree of flexibility to helpmeet business needs and market demands.You will be a major exponent of Health and safety practices, with a strong focus towards work quality and plantstandards.Main Duties and Responsibilities• Carry out both re-active and pro-active maintenance tasks, working across all departments.• You will be required and able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately.• Take part in the development, creation and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machineavailability.• Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS, as well as using the system to assist with anyfault diagnosis.• Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews.• Identify/specify and order engineering parts.• Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements.• Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary.• Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required.• Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives areachieved.• To participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge.• Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge and experience.• Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments for engineering work tasks.• Adhere to safe work practices and procedures, as well as maintaining environmental and legislative requirements.Skills Experience and QualificationDesirable• A relevant vocational qualification e.g., NVQ, ONC, HNC, HND, C&G or an appropriate apprenticeship.Electrical Qualification is essential• Experience of furnace mechanics and their control systems would be advantageous• Experience of furnace vacuum systems or vacuum technologies would be advantageous• Experience in machine tool maintenance would be advantageousDemonstrable• Experience within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment, although applicants from other industries wouldalso be considered.• Good fault finding and problem-solving skills essential – electrical systems etc• Ability to read and understand electrical engineering drawings.• PC literate.• Good standard of numeracy and literacy.• Demonstrate the ability to work as an individual and as part of a team.• Ability to direct and influence others without having line management accountability