Electrical Engineer (Plant Engineer)

Electrical Engineer (Plant Engineer)

The Opportunity:

This role would suit a qualified Electrician or Industrial Electrician who has experience working in a production engineering environment. The role requires an experienced Electrical Plant Engineer or someone who has worked as a Manufacturing Engineer or Production Engineer. You'll be experienced in all aspects of overseeing the production flow and successful implementation of new equipment throughout a 24/7 engineering environment. You will be experienced within plant, maintenance, production or manufacturing engineering, running multiple concurrent projects, sourcing and buying new equipment, designing shop floor layouts, working with the maintenance teams to plan interruptions to production, and generally working across multiple departments to implement new systems and equipment. The role will be 80% office-based, with 20% of your time working on the shop floor or seeing suppliers.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
2. Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
3. Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
4. Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
5. Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
6. Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
7. Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning, and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilization for the site.
8. Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
9. Assisting Maintenance in undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
10. Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
11. Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.

Preferred Skills:

1. Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 1 year’s relevant technical experience within an Engineering environment; however, a development opportunity may be available for a candidate with other existing engineering qualifications and experience.
2. Ability to identify and solve root cause, repetitive reliability problems, and write maintenance procedures.
3. CAD experience, business system experience such as Oracle, MP2, and Automation experience would be advantageous.
4. Ability to collect and analyze overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment.
5. Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Aware of Microsoft Project.
6. Multiskilled or experienced in both electrical and mechanical disciplines would be an advantage.

Working Hours: Mon – Thurs 8-4, Fri 8-2