Salary: £50,000 - £60000
Hours: Rotating 24-hour shift pattern – 4 days working, 4 days off, 4 nights working, 4 days off (7:00am – 7:30pm and 7:00pm – 7:30am)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Shift Production Support Engineer to join our thriving UK medical manufacturing company to work within our expanding Engineering Department.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated candidate to lead a team of engineers working on a rotating shift pattern, providing primary engineering support across the site. This is a hands-on role involving fault finding, Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM), installations, circuitry upgrades, breakdown support and machine changeovers as required.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring engineering works are completed safely and efficiently, keeping machine downtime to a minimum and supporting the achievement of operational targets.
Essential Experience/Qualifications
- Level 3 Engineering Apprenticeship
- Experience of automated production environment
- Machine setting
- Previous team leading experience
- Strong engineering background electrically and mechanically
- Strong health and safety knowledge
- Strong relationship building qualities
- Understanding of working in a controlled environment
- Ability to manage downtime and priorities
- Continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to modify machine wiring
- Ability to read engineering drawings electrically and mechanically
Desirable Experience/Qualifications
- Injection moulding
- Knowledge and understanding of quick changeover best practices
- 18th Edition
- PLC knowledge
Key Skills
- Good communication
- Good people skills
- Able to work to deadlines
- Able to multitask and prioritise workload
- Able to make decisions and self-manage
- Able to work in a team and on own initiative
- Able to function effectively across a number of interrelated departments
- Self-motivated and willing to learn
- Have a can-do attitude with an enthusiastic approach to work
- Basic computer skills
- Methodical, organised and structured approach to work
- Excellent attention to detail
- Able to work in a safe manner complying with Health and Safety legislation
- Able to act in a fair and reasonable way
- High level of commitment
- Flexibility to work additional hours if required to support the facility
No Agencies please
You may have experience in the following: Shift Engineer, Lead Maintenance Engineer, Shift Maintenance Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer, Maintenance Team Leader, Engineering Team Leader, Production Support Engineer, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Shift Engineering Supervisor, Maintenance Shift Leader, etc
Salary description
£50000.00 - £60000.00 per year