Site Maintenance Engineer

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Job description

Site Maintenance Engineer

Salary: £30,000-£36,000 per annum DOE

Hours: 08:00am-04:30pm Monday to Friday with a 15 minute tea break and 30 minute lunch break. 20 days holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays.

Our client is a global company that designs, engineers and manufactures more than 10,000 components for their market. They are seeking a Site Maintenance Engineer to join their team on a permanent basis. The Maintenance Engineer will be based on site to provide planned preventative maintenance and breakdown of plant equipment and machinery to ensure maximum capacity to reduce machine downtime.

Duties including but not limited to:

Maintain all Plant machinery at a certain level.

Daily & Weekly safety checks on all machinery.
Carry out routine scheduled maintenance work and respond to emergencies, unplanned challenges, and repairs
Respond with urgency to all breakdowns and diagnose breakdown problems
Make recommendations to reduce machine downtime and cycle times
Fit new parts and ensure equipment is working efficiently and safely
Escalate machine breakdowns to appropriate managers if not resolved within agreed timescale
Work with specialist equipment and suppliers, to support our machines and equipment
Liaise and work with contractors to carry out planned maintenance and breakdowns
Assist with the installation of new equipment as required
Read design specifications and technical drawings
Liaise and communicate with all departments, customers and other engineering and production functions, attend meetings on site as required
Maintain general housekeeping and safe working area.
Performs other duties including, but not limited to all facilities related tasks and work on special projects as required
Skills / Experience:

Hydraulic / pneumatics knowledge (meaning able to fault find if there is an issue with any machines.
Electrical experience.
Able to read electrical circuits / drawings.
Previous experience within a similar role in a manufacturing environment.
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