Electrical Maintenance Technician

Zenith People are working with our client who are recruiting for an experienced, Time-served Electrical Maintenance Technician on a permanent basis.

The main purpose of the role is to provide engineering/ maintenance support by performing plant preventative maintenance, engineering support whilst working a Shift Pattern of Earlies & Lates

You will be responsible for electrical/ mechanical maintenance, repair and fault finding of plant and equipment.

- Fulfilling the requirements of the facility CMMS to reduce unplanned downtime and works towards improvement of OEE.

- Electrical/ mechanical fault finding, isolation and repair of equipment.

- Providing input into the electrical maintenance and operation of plant equipment.

- Carry out evaluation and risk assessments within all areas of the plant to ensure safe working methods and environment

- Ensure that plant critical spares are maintained at the required level.

- Identify suitable external resource when appropriate for routing maintenance activities or ongoing improvement projects.

- Use SAP to raise purchase requisitions as appropriate.

- Working on plant improvement initiatives and makes recommendations to reduce unplanned downtime.

- Working with suitable external engineering services as and when required to ensure safe and effective operation of plant equipment.

- Undertaking periodic training to ensure that maintenance activities are performed in compliance with best safe working practice and current legislation.

Qualifications & Skills Required

1. Minimum NVQ Level 3 - Previous practical experience working in High Volume Manufacturing Plant

2. Experience of maintaining and fault finding on the following types of equipment; PLC control, Variable Speed Drives, Conveyor Systems

3. Excellent internal and external communications skills

4. Experience of working an on-call maintenance system.

If you are a time-served Maintenance Technician with PLC Fault Finding experience and would like to be considered for this vacancy, please click apply now.