Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Smurfit-Westrock; Tewkesbury; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled maintenance technician to perform planned maintenance on print and finishing equipment, respond to breakdowns, and support improvements in manufacturing processes.

Reporting to the Production Manager, you will train staff, help manage spare parts, and record activities in the maintenance system to boost machine reliability and overall production output in packaging operations.

Qualifications

• City & Guilds with HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of PLCs, AC/DC motors, drives and controllers.
• Strong organisational skills and fault-finding ability.
• IPAF at heights training.

Responsibilities

• Perform planned maintenance on print and print related machinery.
• Train print minders to enhance maintenance practices.
• Provide training for planned preventative maintenance in finishing.
• Respond to breakdowns and requests for work.
• Implement improvements on current processes.
• Reduce downtime and maintain spare part inventory.
• Identify and implement improvements on finishing maintenance processes.
• Work with management to establish spare parts processes including Kanbans.
• Record all engineering activities using the Electronic Maintenance Management System.
• Improve effectiveness of machinery and production output.

Skills

PLC & motor controls

Manufacturing environment

Fault finding & rectification

Organisational skills

Decision making

Adaptable technician

IPAF training

Education

City & Guilds + HNC in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Smurfit Westrock (NYSE:SW) is the go-to leader and partner of choice in sustainable packaging. We are dedicated to creating efficient and scalable paper and packaging solutions to help solve complex packaging challenges. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity and respect, we are committed to delivering meaningful value for shareholders, customers, employees and the communities where we operate.

JOB PURPOSE:

This job description is intended as a guide to the type of role the Job Holder is expected to perform. As the nature of our business can vary with changes in customer requirements and operation procedures the following tasks are the key duties of the role, but it is understood that the Job Holder will undertake any function in which he/she is adequately trained or competent. If in time, significant change to the role is experienced, a new job description will be issued.

Reporting to the Production Manager, the successful candidate will work closely with all production teams performing both planned and breakdown maintenance on print and print related areas and to respond to requests for repairs/spared ordering in a timely manner in accordance with the requirements of the business.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The role will encompass:

• Performing planned maintenance on print and print related machinery to ensure that they are at a high standard
• Acting in a training capacity to print minders to enhance current maintenance practices
• Implementing and providing training for all employees for planned preventative maintenance programs in finishing
• Responding to breakdowns and requests for work
• Implementing improvements on current processed
• Reducing downtime of current equipment and maintain the current spare part inventory
• Identifying and implementing improvements on current finishing maintenance processes
• Working with management to establish new spare parts processes including Kanbans where necessary to improve spare part inventory management
• Developing and recording all engineering activities carried out by use of the Electronic Maintenance Management System including spare parts ordering and booking in
• Effectiveness of machinery and therefore production output

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE

• City & Guilds trained with an HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience working within a manufacturing environment
• Mechanical engineering experience
• Organisational skills with quick reactivity to breakdowns
• Decision making ability
• Adaptable technician with experience working with PLC's, AC/DC motors, drives and controllers, ideally within the packaging industry.
• Adaptable fault finding and rectification skills.
• IPAF working at heights training

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.