Maintenance Technician

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Department: Ink Engineering

Reports to: Senior Engineer

Shift: Two Rotational (17% shift allowance) – 6.00am – 2.00pm, 2.00pm – 10.00pm

Position summary:

To ensure all machinery breakdowns are responded to quickly and efficiently, and fault-finding is logical to ensure route cause is identified quickly and efficiently and all repairs are carried out to a high standard to ensure production line performance.

Any extended downtime is escalated upwards to allow support to be given when needed.

Working closely with production staff, to ensure line productivity performance, reduction in error counts, line cycle time and quality is within standard, a proactive approach is to be taken continuously checking on the lines performance.

Carrying out improvement work and modifications to improve the overall line efficiency.

Investigate, propose and apply continuous process improvements and ideas and ensuring all pre and post data is captured to ensure re-occurring issues are a key focus to help achieve/reduce quality DPM, customer complaints and, machine Productivity / OEE.

The main duties and responsibilities for this role:

• Ensure working to the relevant standards and procedures, and to update as and when needed and to build on the current procedures to aid cross shift training
• Ensure all engineering improvements have been formulated with quality of product in mind
• Assist with the Production teams ongoing existing Quality issues and propose engineering solutions
• To ensure all work is focused around the achievement of plans and ensuring optimum line productivity, any delay is communicated to the relevant members, propose solutions to any line stoppages to ensure maximum up time

Qualifications – essential:

• ONC or NVQ3 in an engineering function
• GCSE Maths and English

Qualifications – desirable:

• Mechanical and/or Electrical qualifications

Experience required – essential:

• Previous experience in a similar role

Experience required – desirable:

• Working in a similar environment (FMGC)
• Basic hand tool and machinery skills
• Basic electrical fault finding
• Knowledge of vacuum systems