Production Maintenance Engineer

Production Maintenance Engineer required for global leader in South Wales

Our client, who are a global leader in the manufacture of cables are looking to recruit an Electrically biassed Production Maintenance Engineer to boost its support team at their plant in Aberdare.

The main purpose of the role is to work as part of a small team of Shift Maintenance Engineers who are responsible for and supervise a team of Shift Maintenance Technicians who carry out breakdown, preventative and continuous improvement plant maintenance on a shift basis. The role will also require areas of project work aimed at improving current plant efficiencies and also being involved in key plant upgrade work.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
* Coordinate Maintenance resources on shift to ensure continuous plant operation and completion of preventative plant maintenance, leading to improved plant efficiencies which satisfy the business needs, enabling manufacturing reach output quality and targets.
* Take a lead role in resolving major breakdowns on shift and provide technical support to Shift Maintenance Technicians.
* Ensure that continuous improvement needs are driven across the maintenance shifts.
* Provide support for external Engineering Projects and also plan and lead smaller in house Engineering Projects.
* Provide out of hours weekend support initially to maintenance technicians on a rota basis.
* Support a safety culture within the maintenance department, ensuring the plant and maintenance personnel operate in a safe manner and comply with the Company Health and Safety Policy.

Essential skills/attributes include:
* Ideally qualified to a minimum HND standard with a recognised apprenticeship in electrical and/or mechanical discipline.
* The ability to work and fault find on PLCs within the plant. Experience of Gem 80, Allen Bradley and Siemens S7 would be of a particular advantage to the ideal candidate.
* The ability to work and fault find on both DC and AC electrical drive systems. Experience in drive systems such as Control Techniques, Eurotherm and Parker would be of a particular advantage to the ideal candidate.
* Highly self-motivated with the ability to work under your own initiative and possess excellent fault finding skills.
* Possess Excellent Oral and Written communication skills with the ability to work well within a small team, assisting with providing support and development of other team members.

Remuneration package includes:
* Basic salary of £37,176(+ shift premium to be confirmed once applied)
* Private Medical Insurance
* Health Cash Plan Scheme

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK
Matchtech Group UK Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.