Electrical Engineer

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Job description

Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Randstad Engineering are currently recruiting for a Electrical Maintenance Engineer to come and work for TATA Steel in Willenhall.

The position is paying up to £42,000 per annum (with an 18% shift allowance included) on an initial 6 month contract. The candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week on a rotating 3-shift pattern.

Shift Pattern:-

Morning Shift - Monday to Thursday - 06:00hrs to 14:00hrs

- Friday - 06:00hrs to 11:50hrs

Night Shift - Monday to Thursday - 22:00hrs to 06:00hrs

- Friday - No Night shift

Afternoons Shift - Monday to Thursday - 14:00hrs to 22:00hrs

- Friday - 11:50hrs to 17:40hrs

- Sat or Sun - 06:00hrs to 16:00hrs

The Role

As an Mechanical Shift Engineer, you will support our operations teams by performing necessary
breakdown repairs, leading preventative maintenance activity and facilitating the promotion of
engineering solutions for process improvement to ensure process availability and productivity are
optimised.

The role of the Maintenance Engineers is to effectively maintain all process and auxiliary equipment across the Steelpark with an aim to improve up time while reducing costs. All maintenance engineers will be expected to work a 3 shift-rotating pattern.

Duties and responsibilities within the role include but are not limited to:

Maintain and repair processing machinery and ancillary equipment in a safe and productivemanner in order to maximise availability at optimum cost.
Adhere to the preventative maintenance programmes to ensure that unplanned downtime is avoided.
Through utilisation of the Pirana (PM) system ensure engineering spares and inventory on site
are managed within budget constraints and equipment downtime is minimised.
Procure and manage contract resource to ensure prompt and cost effective recovery frombreakdown.
Understand, deploy and seek to recommend improvements to production control procedures tosupport team performance objectives.
To provide a source of expertise in programmable/configurable devices (instrumentation, PLCs,drives etc.)

The Candidate

The ideal candidate must be qualified to ONC or City & Guilds in an electrical bias qualification.
Experience and knowledge of mechanical systems, Hydraulics and pneumatics is also a
benefit.

Applicants will have demonstrable experience of a relevant engineering discipline, continuous
improvement processes, preventative maintenance techniques and dealing with contractors.
Experience of first stage fault finding, PLCs, drives and AC/DC controllers is also desirable. Alternatively, in depth knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, welding and first stage mechanical
fault finding.

You will have the ability to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and
be computer literate. The ability to work without close supervision, yet under pressure and to
tight timescales is essential.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

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