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Working within a fast paced manufacturing environment within the automotive industry. The role is for an electrically biased maintenance engineer specialising in carding machinery working Days 8am-4.30pm Mon-Thurs and 8.30am-1.30pm Fri – flexibility and additional hours may be required. Competitive salary on offer.

Responsibilities include:

• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance in a timely manner, logging work carried out and documenting the root cause of failures
• Maintaining a safe working environment following the company procedures
• Responding to emergency situations, diagnosing faults both electrically and mechanically
• Contribute to the improvement and development of the planned maintenance system
• Work effectively with the project teams, getting involved with continuous improvement activities, implementing changes to equipment particularly carding machines
• Raising permits to work for contractors on site
• Work flexibly supporting the Maintenance Team when necessary

Required experience:

• Strong PLC experience (ideally Siemens or Mitsubishi)
• Experience within first of second tier supply automotive
• An Engineering qualification in electrical/mechanical ideally BTEC / ONC / OND / HND or higher
• Multi-skilled - able to fault find on both electrical and mechanical across a variety of machines including DC drives, inverter controls, safety control systems, burner controls, gas systems
• Knowledge and experience of fitting bearings, pulleys, chains, tracks, transport belts and senors

You will be a self-motivated individual who works well as part of a team and can work in a fast paced environment. You will have a proactive approach and have strong interpersonal skills. 

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer Carding - Electrically biased with good mechanical skills

based Heckmondwike

Days 8am-4.30pm Mon-Thurs and 8.30am-1.30pm Fri – flexibility and additional hours may be required

Competitive Salary