Qualified Electrician and Maintenance Fitter (Electrical & Mechanical)

at  AB Group Packaging

REPORTING TO:

Maintenance Manager ( MD and Operations Business Systems Manager and Team Lead Customer Service and Safety and Standards Lead)

SUMMARY

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager in Blessington, the job holder is responsible for ensuring that the maintenance of production machinery at the Blessington site is completed in an effective and timely way that it ensures that production downtime is minimised.
As a qualified Electrician, the Jobholder also has particular responsibility for electrical work being qualified and certified to the level required to carry out all works and liaising with electrical and other facilities suppliers set out below. Can assist to manage all necessary applications to ensure the company meets all legal standards to employ a fully qualified electrician who can sign off and certify and assist to manage the applications and documents and essential audits.
Work with the Maintenance Manager and Leadership and staff on Continuous Improvement Projects. CI is the way forward and we work as a team across the facilities in the group on projects, sharing the load to make sure we are Lean and Operating to best practice.

DESIRABLE:

• Self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative
• Worked using computerised ERP systems and knowledge of Netsuite system beneficial but not essential.
• An individual who can contribute to the team and innovation.
  This job description is intended as a summary of the primary responsibilities and qualifications for this position. The job description is not intended as inclusive of all duties an individual in this position might be asked to perform or that may be required to do either now or in the future.

• Carry out allocated tasks from the master programme of pre-planned mechanical and electrical machine maintenance as prioritised and instructed by the Maintenance Manager. The Maintenance Manager will in turn allocate the specific related tasks between the Maintenance Engineers and himself and ensure adherence to the programme.
• Ensure that daily and weekly repair of machine breakdowns and maintenance issues as prioritised and allocated by the Maintenance Manager is completed in a timely way so that production downtime is minimised.
• Take part in the maintenance project programme as directed and prioritised by the Maintenance Manager to ensure that the development of fixes and improvements that will reduce downtime and increase productivity in the medium term.
• Undertake machine fixes and maintenance as part of the Engineering Team with a particular focus on electrical faults and fixes. Maintain electrical/electronic control systems in a time critical, automated, production environment.
• Carry out site PAT testing to meet legal requirements. Ensure that any electrical compliance certifications that are required by legislation or by our customers are maintained and identify and agree electrical suppliers with the Maintenance Manager to support this.
• Input and maintain all logs of maintenance fixes and pre-planned maintenance and projects completed by the jobholder using NetSuite and any other IT systems that the Company may implement.
• Responsible for updating any Parts and Services Logs: Ensure that necessary parts are ordered on the system in place to ensure that the required levels of mechanical spares and parts for the machines are maintained. Maintain the parts register to include parts ordered.
• Troubleshooting: Responsible for troubleshooting crises and new job issues if they arise on machines. Make contact with suppliers or services contractors as required to meet production demands.
• Co-ordinate and support electrical contractors to site.
• Provide telephone cover to Operators after hours to ensure that proper maintenance cover is provided for production
• Consumable spares – make sure correct spare quantities are maintained for weekend production cover against the agreed parts list.
• Maintain machine spares from the main stores against the agreed list and log from Supervisor store and top up as required. Order required spares from the Maintenance Manager as required.