Electrical Plant & Project Engineer — Exeter (On-site)

Howmet Aerospace; Exeter; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Howmet Aerospace in Exeter seeks an electrically biased Plant/Project Engineer to ensure maintenance and improvements across equipment, services, buildings, and infrastructure. The role operates on a day shift and reports to the Plant Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities include sourcing machines, supervising contractors, creating project plans, driving cost reductions, and improving reliability. CAD, Oracle/CMMS experience, and OEE analysis are valued assets.

Qualifications

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 1 year’s relevant technical experience within an Engineering environment.
• Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
• CAD experience, business system experience such as Oracle, CMMS, Automation experience would be advantageous
• Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Aware of Microsoft Project.
• Multiskilled or experienced in both electrical and mechanical disciplines would be an advantage
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Identify, specify, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervise sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
• Create project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identify 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.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Controls engineering

Root cause analysis

CAD

Oracle/CMMS

OEE analysis

Microsoft Office

Electrical & mechanical multi-skill

Communication skills

Education

HNC in Electrical or Controls Engineering

Tools

Oracle CMMS

Microsoft Project

Job description

Howmet Aerospace in Exeter seeks an electrically biased Plant/Project Engineer to ensure maintenance and improvements across equipment, services, buildings, and infrastructure. The role operates on a day shift and reports to the Plant Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities include sourcing machines, supervising contractors, creating project plans, driving cost reductions, and improving reliability. CAD, Oracle/CMMS experience, and OEE analysis are valued assets.