Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Smurfit Westrock; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Smurfit Westrock is seeking an adaptable maintenance technician to perform planned and breakdown maintenance on print and related machinery in a packaging environment. The role emphasizes training, preventative maintenance, and inventory control to minimize downtime.

The ideal candidate will have City & Guilds with an HNC in Electrical Engineering, strong troubleshooting skills, and experience with PLCs, drives, and motors. IPAF training is desirable.

Qualifications

• City & Guilds with an HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Mechanical engineering experience.
• Organisational skills with quick reactivity to breakdowns.
• Adaptable technician with PLCs, AC/DC motors, drives and controllers, ideally within packaging.
• IPAF operating at heights training.

Responsibilities

• 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 processes.
• 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.

Skills

PLC systems

Electrical troubleshooting

Maintenance planning

Fault finding

Training others

Education

City & Guilds with an HNC or equivalent in Electrical Engineering

Tools

AC/DC motors

Drives and controllers

CMMS

Kanban

Job description

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