Multiskilled Shift Engineer (Mechanical bias)

Job Description

3-shift rotations (40 hours per week):

• Shift rotations (not necessarily in this order): Days (06:00 to 14:00); Afternoons (14:00 to 22:00); and Nights (22:00 to 06:00).
• As most of our shifts are Monday to Friday, you’ll have the majority of your weekends off!
• Night shifts will commence on Sundays at 22:00 and will end on Fridays at 06:00.

How you will add value to Northwood:

Bringing a reactive and proactive approach to multiskilled maintenance of operational equipment and site facilities, maintaining and improving equipment reliability and efficiency.

Your day to day:

• Ensuring all PPMs are carried out safely, cost effectively, in a timely manner, and to a high standard.
• Ensuring optimal running of our mechanical and electrical equipment to ensure that agreed SLAs and KPIs are met.
• Troubleshooting electrical and mechanical machinery issues, conducting RCA and implementing long-term solutions and prevention, demonstrating best practice.
• Responding to and addressing reactive maintenance requests in a timely manner.
• Following engineering/maintenance processes and standards thoroughly, ensuring adherence to Safety, Quality, and Environmental protocol.
• PLC interrogation/electrical fault finding
• Managing spare parts, conducting criticality and obsolescence assessments.
• Utilising process improvement tools such as 5S, TPM, and Kaizen, supporting our CI.

Job Requirements

What we need from you:

• Demonstrable competence as a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer or Technician, with a Mechanical bias (70/30 or 80/20)
• Experience as a Multiskilled or Mechanical Engineer in the Printing, Packaging, Paper Converting, or FMCG industries, ideally with experience in reel-to-reel winding/conversion.
• Experience in electrical maintenance and PLCs (including interrogation and fault finding), and ideally, experience with drives and inverters.
• A proactive approach to equipment efficiency and reliability, and responsive approach to ad hoc requests.
• Level 3+ Electrical qualification (ideally obtained through an apprenticeship)