Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance/ Technical Engineer
Wigston
£40,000 P/ a
08:30am - 17:00pm Mon-Thurs, 08:30am - 16:00pm Fri

SF Recruitment are recruiting for a Maintenance/ Technical Engineer to join our manufacturing client based in Wigston. This role would suit a maintenance engineer looking to get off shifts and join a relaxed, family run business with a great environment. The successful candidate will be employed as the 'Technical Manager'. 

The Maintenance/ Technical Engineer will be responsible to increase profitability by the control and monitoring of the company's factory maintenance functions, whilst maintaining and servicing the company's machinery. To also monitor new products and progressing projects, as identified by the Board, yourself and others. Control company stock and supplier development, particularly to ensure projects are completed to agreed timescales.

This function includes carrying out, as necessary, manual tasks and development and maintenance of the company's machinery.

Maintenance/ Technical Engineer specific duties, accountability and key areas:

- Increase profitability
- Plan, control and monitor production machinery maintenance
- Monitor production machinery for breakdowns and repairs and plan where necessary to perform repairs
- Ensure perpetual inventory procedures and standards are maintained
- Ensure all paperwork systems, records, statistics and computer systems necessary for the effective support of the technical functions are adequately maintained and effectively supervised
- Plan control and monitor costs
- Maintain, design, develop and assemble new and existing equipment/methods as required
- Agree process development and product development timescales
- Monitor and progress projects to agreed timescales
- Help control stocks in liaison with Operations Manager
- Supervise Operator Staff
- Help maintain ISO 9001:2015 standards in relevant areas
- The specific responsibilities indicated above reflect the main duties, however, as the company develops these may change from time to time

KEY RESULT AREAS

- Maintain and improve the production maintenance function
- Plan, control and monitor production machinery maintenance
- Monitor production machinery for breakdowns and repairs and plan where necessary to perform repairs
- Ensure perpetual inventory procedures and standards are maintained
- Ensure all paperwork systems, records, statistics and computer systems necessary for the effective support of the technical functions are adequately maintained and effectively supervised