Electrical Plant Engineer

Meridian Business Support Ltd; Exeter; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; 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

8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Fri

Job summary

Meridian Business Support Ltd is recruiting an Electrical Plant Engineer to oversee electrical contractors, plan projects and ensure low and high voltage systems are safe, compliant and reliable across the site.

You will create project plans for equipment installation and improvement, identify cost reductions, carry out engineering tasks with minimal supervision, analyse data to improve equipment availability and write maintenance procedures.

Qualifications

• HNC or equivalent qualification in Electrical/Controls Engineering with minimum 5 years experience.
• Ability to identify and solve root cause of reliability problems and write maintenance procedures.
• Ability to collect and analyse OEE on critical equipment.
• Experience with CAD and Microsoft Office; Oracle knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify, specify, source, and purchase machines and equipment.
• Supervise sub-contractors and manage projects to time and cost while complying with H&S requirements.
• Create project plans for equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identify cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchase parts and equipment and manage receipts and requisitions.
• Carry out plant engineering across the site including electrical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
• Provide technical data analysis, planning, and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation.
• Identify and implement improvements to reduce downtime and improve reliability.
• Assist maintenance with fault finding across the plant and equipment.
• Implement and drive reliability excellence on critical equipment.
• Create and maintain technical files for new and existing equipment.

Skills

Root cause analysis

OEE analysis

Maintenance planning

Education

HNC in Electrical/Controls Engineering

Tools

CAD

Oracle

Microsoft Office

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

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