Are you an experienced Shift Electrician looking to progress your career at a local manufacturing company that prides itself on high performance and producing quality product? If so, our current Shift Electrician vacancy might be the perfect job for you.
Essity is a market leader in tissue products. Skelmersdale is our largest converting site in the UK and a great place to continue and develop your career.
About the Role
As a member of the shift team, working a 4-on, 6-off shift pattern (2 days, 2 nights), the Shift Electrician is a fully integrated member of the shift production team in order to manufacture safely and with appreciation of customer requirements ensuring all KPI’s and stretch targets are achieved.
To maintain and improve the day-to-day operational efficiency of area assets, by ensuring regular and efficient electrical maintenance is carried out and problems solved effectively and quickly in order to meet business needs at all times.
We’re looking for people who embody our values, aren’t afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We’re always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we’d love to talk.

What You Will Do

• Ensure that all machinery safety protection is in place and in working order
• Take seriously the safety of your colleagues/yourself in your operational area and to take actions to promote the required safety standards, challenging all instances of unsafe behaviour
• Provide solutions to failure situations, liaising with Mechanical, Electrical and Process Engineers
• Trouble shoot equipment/process problems in conjunction with team members to ensure rapid resolution of problems
• Assist the team to overcome operating and quality problems-checking equipment against centreline settings and investigating causes of deviations
• Provide comprehensive information about failures and actions taken so that the RST can determine and implement preventative actions
• Be an integral part of the team, setting high personal standards and working closely with external support to minimise downtime
• Optimise line performance by maximising equipment availability in your area
• Review Line priority lists and actively prioritise workload
• Respond quickly and effectively to electrical breakdowns to drive improvements in machine efficiency
• Support the Day Electrical Engineers in continuous improvement projects
• Ensure change control procedures are followed for equipment modifications
• Support the shift electrical logbook to improve communication, fault finding techniques, and traceability
• Follow site standards for new installations and software backup processes
• Provide support with planned maintenance activities, utilising best practices developed by Day support team

• Supervise contractors on site and ensure that all safety and hygiene policies are followedAssist with site projects when required, including new equipment installations, machine modifications and converting development

• Who You Are?

As a Shift Electrician, you will have:

• Time-served engineer or equivalent, preferably multi-skilled with extensive experience within a FMCG
• ONC qualification in Electrical discipline/Equivalent
• HNC qualification in Electrical discipline/Equivalent
• NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering/ equivalent
• PLC practical experience requirements – be actively using a laptop or PC to get online, monitor and make small modifications
• Motor Drive systems (Inverter, Servo, encoder, resolver)
• Experience with Management Systems Ideally SAP
• Siemens Step 7
• Siemens TIA Portal
• Allen Bradley SLC500 (RS Logix 500)

• Allen Bradley Logix (RS Logix 5000)Minimum practical experience with at least 1 PLC type, More PLC types

• What We Can Offer You
  At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We offer a competitive salary, bonus scheme, company contributory pension, private medical cover and heavily discounted staff product sales, Company uniform, discounted canteen facilities, free parking and retail discount schemes.
  Collaborative and caring Work Environment | Empowerment | Job Impact | Work with a Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning and Development | Health & Safety | Social Responsibility | Innovation

• Ensure that all machinery safety protection is in place and in working order
• Take seriously the safety of your colleagues/yourself in your operational area and to take actions to promote the required safety standards, challenging all instances of unsafe behaviour
• Provide solutions to failure situations, liaising with Mechanical, Electrical and Process Engineers
• Trouble shoot equipment/process problems in conjunction with team members to ensure rapid resolution of problems
• Assist the team to overcome operating and quality problems-checking equipment against centreline settings and investigating causes of deviations
• Provide comprehensive information about failures and actions taken so that the RST can determine and implement preventative actions
• Be an integral part of the team, setting high personal standards and working closely with external support to minimise downtime
• Optimise line performance by maximising equipment availability in your area
• Review Line priority lists and actively prioritise workload
• Respond quickly and effectively to electrical breakdowns to drive improvements in machine efficiency
• Support the Day Electrical Engineers in continuous improvement projects
• Ensure change control procedures are followed for equipment modifications
• Support the shift electrical logbook to improve communication, fault finding techniques, and traceability
• Follow site standards for new installations and software backup processes
• Provide support with planned maintenance activities, utilising best practices developed by Day support team
• Supervise contractors on site and ensure that all safety and hygiene policies are followedAssist with site projects when required, including new equipment installations, machine modifications and converting developmen