Role Purpose

To provide day to day electrical maintenance of all machinery, services and facilities within Operations and provide manufacturing operations with technical support and pro-active solutions to engineering/manufacturing problems and initiatives to ensure production ability is maintained and maximised.

Accountabilities

• Undertake electrical maintenance cover for production to ensure that breakdowns and other issues are resolved promptly, and downtime is minimised.
• Utilise the Computerised Maintenance Management System to ensure that all Active Maintenance work is recorded and closed.
• Utilise the Maintenance Request Data Base to ensure that all Reactive Maintenance work is logged, recorded and closed.
• Undertake project work through from installation to commissioning to ensure changes are implemented to the plan and refined if necessary.
• Provide technical support within the engineering department, to other operational departments and external contractors to ensure that the best solutions are identified and implemented.
• Attend and contribute to team meetings once a month which drive departmental performance in order to support continuous improvement and sustainability initiatives.
• Follow all site rules relating to health & safety, environment and quality to ensure that we remain compliant with all legislation and internal procedures.

Scale & Scope of the role

• Major equipment, 12 high speed tufting machines, 1 shearing line, plus ancillary equipment
• Maintain operation for an average of 80k metres of carpet output a week
• Maintain site services including HVAC, Power, Fire sprinklers and Air Compressor
• Two shift rotation Monday to Friday - night shift on call out when required
• Support the maintenance and engineering team
• Fault finding as required on all inhouse equipment
• Completion of planned and breakdown maintenance in a timely manner
• Completion of tasks in-line with McMain (CMMS) and follow up of all documentation
• Commitment to health and safety policy, actively contributing to audits and surveys
• Maintain housekeeping and help to develop 5s within the workshop environment
• Identify and undertake personal development activities

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• A recognised apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering, typically gained as an electrical engineer in a manufacturing environment.
• Educated to ONC or equivalent in Electrical engineering
• Must be willing to undertake training as required
• Proven experience with AC/DC motors, 3 phase electrics, variable speed drives and servo control systems
• An understanding of control systems with knowledge of PLC
• Experience of fault diagnosis on control systems using schematics, program listing or diagnostics
• Basic knowledge of IT systems

Desirable

• Educated to HNC/BTEC/Multi-skilled NVQ level 3
• An understanding of pneumatics and hydraulics
• High speed tufting machine experience.
• IET 17th or 18th edition
• PLC programming and diagnostic experience
• Engineering Mechanical knowledge

Competency Profile

• The successful applicant will have strong analytical skills both mechanically and electrically, demonstrating a sound understanding of working on electrical and pneumatic systems
• Customer Service Orientation - Concerned to provide a prompt, efficient and personalised service to clients; goes out of way to ensure that individual customer (Production and site users) needs are met.
• Drive - Enthusiastic and committed; demonstrates capacity for sustained effort and hard work over long time periods
• Flexibility - Adaptable; receptive to new ideas; willing and able to adjust to changing demands and circumstances.
• Initiative - Proactive, self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; actively influences events.
• Problem Analysis - Breaks problem into constituent parts and differentiates key elements from the irrelevant or trivial; makes accurate use of logic; draws sound inferences from information available.
• Technical Skill and Competence - Demonstrates detailed knowledge and expertise in relation to the job; readily absorbs new technical information and keeps up to date in specialist areas.
• Teamwork - Co-operates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; shares information; supports others.