Maintenance Supervisor

Electrical maintenance lead, £40,000, Days, 10% pension, generous holiday allowance,

About the role

Benefits – Double Matched Pension (Employee Contribution 5%, Employer Contribution 10%), plus Company Share save Scheme and weekly production bonus.

About the company

ATA is working with one of the UKs largest manufacturers within their field who is looking for an experienced Multiskilled maintenance engineer to join their team in Lancashire.

The company, who turn over north of 400 million, have multiple manufacturing sites dotted throughout the UK which are all specially purpose built to house an efficient and LEAN manufacturing process. Due to their market sustaining an impressive period of growth, my client has grown as a business by £100 million over the last three years. Growth has allowed them to acquire some of their competition and put in future plans to safeguard their business. These plans include building a brand-new supersite which will be the largest and most automated of its kind in Europe.  

Their Lancashire site specialises in the manufacture of extruded bricks and with demand in the housing market rising sharply, the site will produce around 50 million bricks per annum supplying to builders’ merchants across the UK.

About the role

As an electrical maintenance lead you will have the responsibility of keeping breakdown time to a minimum, improving machine efficiency and working in conjunction with the groups LEAN and continuous improvement plans. This is a multifaceted position and responsibilities will be split between working in a hand on and hands-off capacity.

Hands off responsibilities include;

• Managing PPMs and processing work orders.
• Managing breakdowns on site
• Scheduling site shut down periods
• Scheduling manpower across the plant
• Writing SOPs, risk assessments and other health and safety documents
• Training of new employees
• Ensuring all teams have the relevant Work Permits and Risk Assessments.
• Contractor Inductions.

Hands on responsibilities include;

• Electrical fault finding.
• PPM, remedial repair and reactive maintenance
• PLC fault finding
• Root cause analysis

• Project work

About you

To be considered for this electrical maintenance lead you should either already be working in a similar position or be driven to make the next step in your career. With the site being siemens S7 control it is important that you come from an automated environment, with exposure to Siemens PLC systems. Due to the environment, you must be happy working within a industrial manufacturing environment that is loud, dirty and exposed to the elements.

It is also important you have the following skills, abilities or qualifications:

• Recognised electrical engineer qualification (Level 3 or above)
• Ideally work within a heavy industrial environment.
• PLC experience – ability to plug in and fault find (Desirable)
• Must have excellent knowledge of H&S.

The benefits

Joining our client, you will be joining a reputable business who offer fantastic training and benefits including a pension matched up to 10%. You will be joining a company that has seen an impressive increase in their profit over the last 5 years which has allowed them to acquire some of their competition, build new sites and invest within training and development of their staff.

If you think you are the right electrical maintenance lead for this market leader, please press apply, call Ashton on 07814905283 or email your CV too [email protected]  

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