Job Description
Package Description:
Great benefits such as:
• Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!
About Our Opportunity
As a PLC Electrical Engineer you will assist the Engineering Manager with the overall responsibility for engineering/maintenance activities on both sites including but not limited to: capital projects, purchasing, installation, commission, fault finding and maintenance.
Working as part of a team the post holder will design, install, commission and provide technical support PLC based control systems, data communication networks and plant electrical systems, together with general maintenance activities on site.
Ensuring that the plant is running at an optimum level, minimising downtown and achieving all internal maintenance demands, in an effective and timely manner, in a way that minimises costs and maximises efficiencies.
This opportunity will be working day shift only 40 hours per week.
What you will be doing
• Carry out effective maintenance and repair on machinery and services. Adhering to preventative plans, downtime reports, breakdown reports, and daily maintenance plans
• Conduct process development projects to improve performance. These include but are not limited to projects to increase throughput, improve quality; reduce operating costs, reduce waste, and increase the value of by-products.
• To review and assess current maintenance practices, implementing continual improvement initiatives, ensuring that service levels afforded to our internal customers are maintained at a high level
• Compilation of reports including but not limited to: fault repairs, PPM, Lost time reports, breakdown reports and expenditure
• To liaise with the Engineering Manager, Maintenance Team Leaders & Production management on all aspects of maintenance on a daily basis taking account of daily production plans and forecasted through put to ensure that targets and specifications are reached within agreed timescales
• To provide accurate feedback regarding machinery that is faulty/broken to all relevant parties ensuring that others can plan accordingly
• To ensure that site and team comply with all applicable H&S and Engineering based legislation and company rules
• Ensure that you help your team achieve targets, yields, specifications and quality standards by performing your tasks with the greatest care and attention
• PLC alterations & improvements
• New installations, including programming of new software and collating information to assist the operations of the machinery/equipment
• Instrumentation improvements – to change/improve instrumentation maintaining accurate readings
• Ensure that machinery and services are maintained to meet individual department’s requirements, utilising the most appropriate and efficient maintenance regime. Reporting any faults to the Engineering Manager immediately.
• To ensure that the machinery and equipment used is of a safe standard, reporting any malfunctions, missing components (for example guards and screens) immediately to the Engineering Manager/Shift Manager
• To assist fellow work colleagues and working together with other areas/teams and departments to ensure that overall business objectives and targets are reached
• To attend training courses to strengthen your skills and knowledge within the area within which you work and attend further training sessions to develop your skills further within other areas of the plant.
• Suggesting improvements to work practices, machinery operation and services to improve the plant operating efficiency
• Effective implementation of accepted changes to working practices, contributing continuously to improvement programmes when required
• Working with external contractors to achieve effective and efficient maintenance and service of machinery, buildings, HV and LV systems when required
• To engage in ‘on-the-job’ training and coaching to gain experience and knowledge in PLC
About You
• Degree-level qualification in an appropriate Engineering discipline, apprentice trained or another formal qualification
• Experience in PLC touch screen controls and electrical maintenance
• Good organisational and multi-tasking capabilities
• Excellent analytical and communication skills (written and oral)
• Problem solving and root cause analysis experience
• PLC programming skills
• Experience of HV/LV Networks and Infrastructure
Behaviours:
• Driven by success and ability to make things happen
• Persists during difficult times
• Good at problem solving
• Able to interpret data, use practical approaches and develop expertise
• Pragmatic, hands-on with strong, competent execution and attention to detail
• Strong work ethic
• Confident communicator who is approachable
• Takes personal responsibility
• Use their initiative
• Constantly striving to achieve high standards
• Willing to try new things and ways of working
• Loyal to the business and each other
• Happy to help their colleagues
Who We Are:
European Metal Recycling is a global leader in sustainable materials with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our core business is the recycling of metal and plastics from a range of public, commercial and industrial waste streams. Our recycling activities generate around 10 million tonnes of sustainable materials every year, saving over 10 million tonnes of CO2.
Our mission is to have great people serving our customers with dependable recycling solutions. EMR is still privately owned, with family values at its core. It’s a place where we care about our people, our customers, our workplace and our communities. We offer diverse and exciting career opportunities where individuals can make a difference and are recognised and rewarded for their hard work.
Find out more about us at www.emrgroup.com
It goes without saying that you will need the correct licences or certificates for a variety of our roles.
However, at EMR we value the way we do things as much as the delivery. We call our expectations our Behaviours. They align with our Values of We Care and We Do, and they apply across all levels and roles in the business.
We Care
- Integrity – you are Respectful and Honest
- Trust – you are Collaborative and Genuine
We Do
- Accountable – you are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative – you have a Growth Mind-set and you are Progressive
The EMR Way - Our Behaviours will achieve success as One Team.
If you embody our Behaviours, we want to hear from you!