Mechanical Area Engineer

Mechspan Recruitment and Consulting; Trafford; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Mechanical Area Engineer in Trafford, United Kingdom. This role involves leading health & safety investigations, supporting maintenance planning, and ensuring compliance with mechanical standards. Candidates should possess a relevant qualification and have a minimum of 3 years supervisory experience in a mechanical maintenance environment. The salary is competitive, reaching up to £60k with an additional bonus of 5%.

Qualifications

• 3 years supervisory experience within Mechanical Maintenance Environment.
• Knowledge of Modern Maintenance Techniques.
• Knowledge of Pneumatic is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead H&S investigations and ensure site compliance.
• Support Area Responsible in maintenance planning and spare parts identification.
• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations when required.

Skills

Health and Safety

Communication

Leadership and Man Management Experience

Mechanical Engineering Knowledge and Experience

Analytical thinking

Knowledge of Hydraulic

Team work

CMMS

Education

Time Served Apprenticeship with relevant experience, NVQ Level 3 / HNC/HND Degree

Tools

SAP

Job description

Mechanical Area Engineer

Main Responsibilities

Health & Safety

• Follow the Site H&S procedures, practices and propose improvements.
• Report any problems and issues immediately following site procedures.
• Promote site H&S standards and challenge where necessary.
• Lead H&S investigations.
• Undertake allocated H&S actions.
• Ensure awareness of current legislative and statutory requirements to maintain site compliance.
• Audit site maintenance activities to ensure site safety standards are followed.

Environmental

Responsible for environmental aspects in own area.
Follow the site environmental procedures, practices and propose improvements.
Report any problems and issues immediately by using the site procedures.
Ensure site environmental critical equipment is maintained to relevant Mechanical standard.

Quality

• Ensure site quality critical equipment is maintained to relevant Mechanical standard.
• Suggest innovations to ensure customer satisfaction is guaranteed.
• Audit quality of site maintenance activities.

Specific Tasks

Maintenance Operations

• Supports Area Responsible in maintenance planning in more complicated cases with long term impact.
• Identifying spare parts requirements and technical specifications for maintenance work.
• Identify and search alternative spare parts if parts are not available at site.
• Creation of MRF form for non-stock spare parts and materials.
• Follow up spare part and material purchase process.
• Support Area Responsible in daily activities, when required.
• Creation of Standard Operation Procedures (SOP) for repetitive work, when required.
• Creation of Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) for maintenance work, when required.
• Reviewing and updating work instructions.
• Review Maximo master data content and coordinate data update projects within own responsibility area with Maximo admin.
• Define update requirements for Maximo master data.
• Create and follow Maximo data requests.
• Follow up of maintenance measures (KPI's) and agree required actions with Area Responsible.
• Creating and updating work orders in Maximo.
• Troubleshooting and communicate with production about troubleshooting cases.
• Act as a supervisor during a shutdown.
• Supervision of shutdowns and evaluating work execution time schedules.
• Inform shutdown leader of any delays or change needs of shutdown works during a shutdown.
• Provide required information and proposed solutions to shutdown leader of shutdown plan changes during a shutdown.
• Development of maintenance working methods and practices within own responsibility area.
• Ensure implementation of new working methods and practices within own responsibility area.
• Approval of costs based within approval limits.
• Requesting quotations from service companies and external maintenance providers.
• Defining scope and requirements for maintenance services and external maintenance suppliers.
• Requesting quotations from Maintenance Services and external maintenance suppliers.
• Evaluation of specialist support needs within own responsibility area.
• Defining and identifying companies for specialist/expert support.
• Requesting quotation from specialist support companies.
• Defining scope and requirements for specialist support.
• Organization and coordination of specialist onsite visits.
• Execute activities given by solid line supervisor.
• Participate in on-call support.

Reliability

• Facilitate Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations, when required.
• Support and participate RCA and failure mode analysis.
• Responsible to implement actions from RCA at own responsible area.
• Support integration of a reliability centred maintenance program.
• Support development and improvement projects within responsibility area.
• Support and cooperation of reliability issues with mill reliability specialist and development team within own responsible area.
• Identification of maintenance improvements and preparation of improvement projects.
• Review PM's and PM content improvements within own area.
• Development of preventative and predictive maintenance program within own responsible area.
• Optimize preventive and predictive maintenance programs within own responsibility area.
• Follow preventive and predictive maintenance performance within own responsibility area.
• Create action plan with Area Responsible and mill reliability specialist based on data analyses and studies.
• Create lifetime estimation of assets within responsibility area and define long term maintenance strategy for these assets.
• Maintain and develop long term service plan and requirements for critical assets within own responsibility area including major repairs and high-cost maintenance of assets.

Academic qualifications

• Time Served Apprenticeship with relevant experience, NVQ Level 3 / HNC/HND Degree

Professional experience

• 3 years supervisory experience within Mechanical Maintenance Environment

Standard Skills

• Health and Safety
• Communication
• Commitment
• Leadership and Man Management Experience
• People management and development
• Mechanical Engineering Knowledge and Experience
• Impact and influence
• Knowledge of Mordern Maintenance Techniques
• Innovative and initiative
• Knowledge of Hydraulic (Essential)
• Analytical thinking
• Knowledge of Pneumatic (Desirable)
• Self-control
• Paper & Power industry Knowledge (Desirable)
• Team work
• CMMS
• Client orientation
• SAP (Desirable)
• Strategic Vision

Salary

Salary up to £60k depending on experience + 5% bonus.