Maintenance Engineer Sutton in Ashfield

Bellway plc; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Bellway plc is seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer for its new Timber Frame Manufacturing facility in Sutton-in-Ashfield. The role involves ensuring maintenance cover, managing breakdown responses, and continuous improvement of plant uptime. Candidates should have strong communication skills and relevant manufacturing experience, with opportunities for a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive annual bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Access to discounts and benefits portal

ShareSave Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life assurance

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Earn and Learn Opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in manufacturing/production maintenance environment.
• Electrical bias with mechanical skills or vice versa.
• Knowledge of PLC controls and instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure full maintenance cover over shifts and manage breakdowns.
• Coordinate engineering actions from maintenance activities.
• Maintain ongoing compliance with Health and Safety requirements.

Skills

Effective communication

Proactive and enthusiastic team player

Flexible and adaptable

Education

Completion of a recognised mechanical or electrical apprenticeship

Job description

Bellway is a FTSE 250 five-star house builder, which operates 22 trading divisions across England, Scotland and Wales. The company has grown from a family firm, established more than 75 years ago, into a respected national brand, selling over ten thousand homes a year.

As the next step of long term growth and to support our sustainability priorities, Bellway shall be opening a new, highly automated, Timber Frame Manufacturing facility located in Sutton in Ashfield.

This new Division, Bellway Home Space, shall become operational later this year and there is an exciting opportunity to join the initial team at our new state of the art facility. We are currently looking to recruit a Maintenance Engineer to join the Division’s Maintenance team.

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success and our goal is to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career in line with our values of quality, service and trust.

In addition to this we are committed to being a more inclusive employer and invite applications from a variety of backgrounds.

The Role

The Maintenance Engineer will ensure full maintenance cover over all shifts and that breakdowns and planned maintenance are dealt with in a prompt manner to increase OEE.

The processing environment will be through a planned preventive maintenance system. The hours will be a rotating 3-shift pattern, 5 days a week, however, there may be a need to perform weekend overtime to conduct shut down maintenance/repair tasks.

Principal accountabilities of the Maintenance Engineer role include:

• Coordination of engineering actions arising from the maintenance planned activities
• Maintaining and improving current OEE levels by carrying out the maintenance plan and recording all findings within a Computerised Maintenance Management System
• Completion of Project Improvement Actions to continuously improve the plants' uptime
• Responding effectively to plant breakdowns
• Being part of a multi-skilled team that can cover any type of work, whether electrical/mechanical
• Support training for machine operatives

Environmental, Health and Safety

• Ensuring to follow agreed safe systems of work and monitor operators' work in a Health and Safety Compliant manner
• Establishing environmental compliance and awareness throughout the team
• Checking all external contractors work and obtain RAMS in line with agreed EHS Procedures
• Carrying out work safely and in the interests of all employees in accordance with the EHS procedures and summarised in the EHS responsibilities matrix

Work by external bodies

• Dealing with contractors when necessary and completing contractor inductions
• Raising requisitions for supplies within agreed budgets and control systems

Measurables

• Increase O.E.E
• Planned maintenance records maintained within the CMMS

The above list of accountabilities are not exclusive or exhaustive. The post holder will be required to undertake any such duties as may be reasonably expected.

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

Experience

• Extensive experience in a manufacturing/production maintenance environment
• Preferably have experience of working in a fast moving environment
• Be multi-skilled with either
  • Electrical bias with mechanical skills and knowledge including:
    • Working knowledge of PLC controls and instrumentation, and the ability to fault find within a control panel environment
    • Have the ability to use electrical and electronic test instrumentation for checking circuits, mainly focused on analogue circuits
    • Must be capable of using variable power supplies to check instrumentation
    • Possess general industrial electrical experience to include installation techniques
    • 16th Edition Qualification
      Or
  • Mechanical bias with electrical skills and knowledge, including:
    • Automation/controls environment oriented towards appreciation and understanding of pneumatic controls and hydraulics
    • Appreciation of electrical aspects which interface with pneumatic control systems; i.e. pressure sensing devices and proportional air control systems
    • Possess hands-on skills to include welding and fabrication skills, to be capable of undertaking major mechanical repairs or process improvement.

Qualifications and Training

• Completion of a recognised mechanical or electrical apprenticeship is desirable

Skills and Aptitude

• Effective communication
• A strong, proactive and enthusiastic team player
• Capability to be trained to drive a FLT or hold a current FLT Counterbalance or Reach licence
• Demonstrate a willingness and positive attitude towards learning including undertaking specific equipment training
• Flexible and able to integrate within a continuous improvement culture
• Organised and able to cope with multitasking and prioritising in a fast-moving environment
• High commitment to our quality systems and quality of our delivered product (to ISO 9000 standards)
• Committed to diversity and inclusion

The Role and Working Conditions

• Willing to be flexible in respect to day-to-day duties
• Plant-based role with possible travel to sites for quality and training purposes
• Rotating 3-shift pattern, 5 days a week; however, there may be a need to perform weekend overtime (day shift operation during equipment implementation and production ramp up)

In return we can offer you:

• Competitive annual bonus
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to discounts and benefits portal
• ShareSave Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Earn and Learn Opportunities

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.