Electrical Maintenance Engineer: Print & Packaging

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

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.