Position:  Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Location:  Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Salary:   c£40k - £50K, commensurate with experience 

Days role: 7:00am - 3:00pm Monday-Thursday, 7:00am - 2:30pm Fridays 

Reporting to:  Production Director

Nicholas Associates has an excellent opportunity for an apprentice trained electrical biased, ideally multi skilled, Maintenance Engineer. The successful candidate will work within a team whilst demonstrating personal drive and motivation to deliver results.

You will require a hands on approach and a working knowledge, operation, inspection, testing and maintenance of the following:

• Conversant with CNC Machining centres including interrogation of Siemens, Heidenhain and Fanuc programs for maintenance - fault finding analysis purposes.
• Electrical control of CNC centres, medium to heavy machine tools that include presses, furnaces, grinding machines, milling machines.
• The ability to fault find on and write/modify programs for Siemens, Heidenhain and Fanuc controls.
• Ability to carry out mechanical fault finding and repairs on CNC centres, Surface grinder and milling machines.
• Extensive knowledge of Pneumatic systems, valve control.
• Ability to check correct operation of CNC drive systems and inverter controlled machines.
• Ability to read electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic drawings relating to equipment and make modifications if required.
• Electrical distribution systems Knowledge.

You will:

• Demonstrate good team working abilities
• Be able to work on own initiative
• Be a self-starter and highly motivated individual
• Flexible in working time – call out
• Agile – Responds to the business needs using his skill sets.
• Multi skilled 
• Have good organisation and time keeping skills
• Conversant with Health and Safety legislation including Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 - Electrical Risk assessments, safe systems of work, PUWER, Work at Height, COSHH, Isolation (LOTO)
• Capable of identifying root cause failure and corrective action
• Committed to change and continues improvement
• Experience in developing planned maintenance schedules
• Organising – Obtaining spares 
• Utilise the maintenance management software (Agility)to maximise plant availability
• Create shift job reports for updates on current status of machine problems and resolutions.
• Work with production and production manager to deliver timely repairs and scheduled maintenance.
• Be willing to pass on knowledge to other team members and to work with them to help share knowledge on machine fault finding and repair procedures.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Delivering increased productivity
• Reduced production costs maximising end user output
• Working with people at all levels of the organisation
• Constantly looking at how you can add value