Maintenance Engineer

Role: Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Halifax

Shift: Permanent Nightshift

Salary: Upto 48K (Neg on experience)

GPS are looking for a highly motivated Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to work for a leading PVC manufacturer working a permanent nightshift. Reporting directly to the Engineering Maintenance Manager you will be a key member of the site team ensuring the production facility is kept running to maximum efficiency and output.

Key Responsibilities

• Deal with machine breakdowns to ensure that the site can maximize throughput and meet customer demand.
• Reactive, proactive and planned maintenance across a wide range of factory equipment to support plant uptime.
• Maintaining site services and facilities.
• Focuses on saving cost on maintenance work and contributes to cost reduction initiatives.
• Plans and manages individual and team projects.
• To ensure that Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental standards are adhered to including the requirements of
• ISO 9001, 14001 & 45001

Key Skills/Experience Desired

• Strong practical and legal knowledge of electrical and mechanical engineering/maintenance
• Level 3 electrical engineering qualification or equivalent
• Experience working as a Maintenance Engineer in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of extrusion, mixing & blending machines is advantageous but not essential.
• Know and can apply the techniques of Planned Preventative & Total Productive, Maintenance to improve machine condition, improve product quality and reduce downtime.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Welding qualification/experience preferred but not essential(MIG & Stick)

Able to read engineering drawings.