Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias)

Baltic Recruitment Services Ltd; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Baltic Recruitment Services Ltd is seeking a Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) in Pontypool on a 3-shift pattern (Mon-Fri). The role reports to the Maintenance Supervisor and focuses on safety, reliability, and cost improvements to keep production flowing.

Essentials include an apprenticeship or HNC in engineering, strong PLC fault-finding skills (AB Logix, Siemens Step7/TIA), and the ability to coach technicians while driving improvements in OEE and asset care.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship or HNC in engineering.
• Must understand OEE components and calculations.
• Strong communication skills at all levels.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Electrical control fault finding in manufacturing environments.
• PLC fault finding with AB Logix and Siemens Step7/TIA Portal.

Responsibilities

• Promote health and safety within engineering and lead by example.
• Coach and develop associate Technicians and apprentices.
• Ensure right first time repairs and protect customer interests.
• Analyse OEE data, identify issues and implement improvements.
• Log maintenance activities in CMMS and monitor corrective actions.
• Support maintenance strategy development and critical spares identification.

Skills

OEE understanding

Team coaching

Safety leadership

Communication

Education

Apprenticeship or HNC in Engineering

Tools

AB Logix PLC fault finding

Siemens Step7/TIA Portal

Job description

Baltic Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Temp to Perm Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) for a client located in Pontypool. This role is working on a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday - Friday. Reporting into the Maintenance Supervisor.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety

• To promote health and safety in all aspects of engineering through effective leadership.
• Develop a safety culture within the maintenance team to improve safety when working
• Raise near misses and conduct investigations where required.
• Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in a safe manner and are compliant with all health and safety rules.

People

• To actively coach and develop associate Technicians and maintenance Technicians through training and development activities.
• Support, Coach and develop engineering apprentices where required.

Quality

• Support the business in ensuring right first time, every time is achieved from the machining and assembly cells.
• Ensure the customer is put first in all decisions relating to engineering repairs. Ensuring they are not affected by any work completed.

Reliability

• OEE - React and respond to daily OEE issues where Technical support is Required
• OEE - Analyse and utilise OEE data to identify engineering issues and create improvement plans to resolve in the shortest possible time frame
• OEE - Take ownership of plant performance in your area of responsibility and strive to ensure it is always improving.
• Utilise root cause analysis tools and techniques to determine root cause on significant failures and plan, implement and monitor control to resolve.
• Utilise CMMS system to log time and report counter measures for reactive and planned maintenance activities.
• Take lead role and Strive to continually improve plant and processes in line with business goals. Utilising performance data to identify areas for improvement and measure success.
• Support Maintenance team in optimising maintenance strategy for the site and identifying critical spares.
• Provide technical support where required during planned predictive maintenance activities to ensure all tasks are completed correctly.

Cost

• Keep business profitability in mind when using spare parts.
• Look for improvement opportunities that will reduce costs.
• Promote energy saving within the department.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) Applicants:

Essential:

• An apprenticeship or HNC in engineering.
• Must understand the systems within Company and the Customer Quality Drivers.
• Must understand the importance of OEE and how it is made up and calculated.
• Must be able to communicate effectively at all levels both verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to manage workload in a timely manner in order to achieve deadlines.
• Must be able to formulate plans to achieve targets and be willing and able to make decisions based on facts.
• The will to achieve targets and goals and satisfy all internal and external customers.
• Electrical control system fault finding in a manufacturing/production environment.
• PLC fault finding experience, using A-B Logix platforms and Siemens Step7/TIA Portal.

Desirable:

• HNC/HND in Electrical engineering subject.
• Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint software.
• CMMS experience - Ideally Agility or SAP.
• CNC fault finding and maintenance, predominantly Siemens 840D Solution Line.
• PLC programming experience.
• Vision system interrogation and modification using Cognex or Neurocheck.
• Robotics fault finding and maintenance (Staubli, ABB and UR).

Working a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday to Friday. 9.00 pm - 6.00 am:

• Day Shift: 6am - 2pm
• Back Shift: 2pm - 10pm
• Night Shift: 10pm - 6am

Salary(s):

• Basic: £37,938.11
• AM/PM Shift: £42,650.02
• Night Shift: £43,461.90