Electrical Plant Engineer

Meridian Business Support Ltd; Clyst St Mary; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual holiday

Secure on-site parking

Excellent contributory pension

Health care cash back plan

Life assurance

Company bonus scheme

Job summary

Meridian Business Support Ltd seeks an Electrical Plant Engineer to oversee planning, sourcing and installation of machinery and electrical infrastructure across a manufacturing site. You will supervise contractors, develop project plans and drive cost reductions while improving equipment reliability and availability.

The role requires an electrical bias, experience with HV/LV systems, and hands-on data analysis to optimise asset utilisation, with a strong emphasis on planning and site-wide

Qualifications

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify, specify, source and purchase machines and equipment.
• Supervise sub-contractors ensuring project plans meet time and cost targets.
• Create project plans to support rearrangement, installation and cost reduction.
• Identify and implement cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchase parts for improvement works and manage receipts.
• Carry out plant engineering activities across site incl. electrical infra and equipment.
• Provide data-driven planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation.
• Identify improvements to equipment reliability to reduce faults and downtime.
• Assist Maintenance with fault finding across plant and equipment.
• Implement and drive reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
• Create and maintain technical files for equipment.

Skills

Root cause analysis

OEE analysis

Maintenance procedures

Data analysis

CAD experience

Microsoft Office

Oracle (useful)

Education

HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering

Tools

CAD

Microsoft Office

Oracle

Job description

Electrical Plant Engineer

The Opportunity: This role might suit somebody who's been a Project Engineer / Maintenance Engineer (but more on the planning side) / Engineering Supervisor or Plant Engineer. You will need to be electrically biased and able to understand low and high voltage systems and work with and oversee electrical contractors. This role is critical to ensure that the manufacturing equipment, services, buildings and the entire engineering infrastructure are maintained and improved to meet the current and future demands of the business.

Job Responsibilities:

• Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
• Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
• Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/electrical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
• Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
• Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
• Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
• Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
• Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.

Preferred Skills:

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience.
• No other formal Electrical qualifications are required in this role.
• Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
• Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
• CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful

Benefits:

• 25 days annual holiday
• Secure on-site parking
• Excellent contributory pension
• Health care cash back plan
• Life assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• 8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday

Please note that this specific role may be subject to export control restrictions, including under ITAR. Any offer of employment from this particular company will be conditional on the successful candidate meeting the applicable legal requirements for access to controlled information.