Careers

We are looking for 2 motivated professionals to join our team.

Overall Purpose of the Role:
To ensure that production equipment on site is maintained correctly, support with installations and upgrades of equipment and support in breakdown situations. Working alongside a Production Shift covering days and nights working.

Reporting to: Electrical Foreman

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
• General mill-wide electrical & mechanical maintenance work and fault finding on paper machines and auxiliary plant.
• Repair or replace various types of LV electrical systems such as three phase circuits, single phase circuits & control circuits.
• Bench work including circuit wiring, motor repairs, fabrication, bench testing etc
• Undertake motor maintenance activities on both AC & DC motors.
• Fault finding and use of test equipment.
• Liaise with Electrical Foreman regarding the condition of equipment to allow for financial planning in replacement and refurbishment activities.
• Participate in the commissioning of new or modified equipment.
• Support with machine start up duties.
• Maintain, repair & update existing pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• Maintain the outstanding work list and work to priorities, in conjunction with other departments and within the Engineering Team.
• Ensure that switchrooms and drive stations are kept to the expected standards.
• Support in a breakdown situation.
• Ensure the Health & Safety of employees and contractors around your work and ensure that Safe Systems of Work are followed.
• Ensure all accidents and dangerous incidents are reported and appropriate action taken.

Essential Experience & Knowledge:
• L3 Advanced Apprenticeship or equivalent in related discipline (essential).
• At least 3 years post apprenticeship experience in industry (essential).
• A minimum of 3 years’ work experience as a Maintenance Engineer (essential).
• The above gained in an industrial environment (essential).
• Experience of DC and AC motors, drives and control systems (highly desirable).
• Ability to fault find on both electrical and mechanical systems with and without drawings (advantageous).
• Experience of work with pumps & gearboxes (advantageous).
• Awareness and understanding of electrical theory (advantageous).
• Understanding of pneumatic & hydraulic principles (advantageous).
• Familiarity with using Maintenance Management Systems (desirable).

Personal Skills & Qualities:
• Able to work interdepartmentally and be a team player.
• Clear and concise communicator.
• Strong health and safety awareness.
• Proactive attitude to identifying and rectifying faults.

Submit your application via the Apply button below.

We are looking for 2 motivated professionals to join our team.

Overall Purpose of the Role:

Following restructures to the Engineering Team the leadership and working patterns have altered to support the engagement of the wider team.

We are offering the opportunity for a motivated individual to join a team of dedicated Engineers in maintaining our paper machines and auxiliary processes onsite, to maximise efficiencies safely, 24 hours per day. The successful applicant is to have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar environment. They will join a team working an 8-week, day based cycle, involving some weekend coverage with 6 rostered weeks off per year plus 12 days floating holidays and voluntary on call rota responsibility and opportunity of overtime.

Engineering within paper mills offers a very diverse and interesting scope of daily work, and we are looking for an individual with the enthusiasm and technical ability to further strengthen our team.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• General mill-wide maintenance work on paper machines and auxiliary plant either as part of a team or on an individual basis.
• Bench work including repairs to equipment, fabrications, welding, hydraulics, pneumatics etc.
• Use of machinery in the Engineering Workshops.
• Call out duties.
• Fault finding work on pneumatic/hydraulic systems.
• Boiler house and steam system maintenance.

Experience, Qualities and Qualifications:

• NVQ Level 3 (or equiv.) in Engineering (Mechanical preferred)
• Recognised apprenticeship (preferred)
• Min. of 3 years’ work experience as a Technician or Fitter (Essential)
• The above gained in an industrial environment (Desirable)
• Paper mill experience (Desirable)

Working Pattern:

• Rostered day pattern (including weekends) – This has changed from previous iterations and example can be provided upon request.
• To be part of an out of hours on-call rota (voluntary)

Submit your application via the Apply button below.