Workshop Engineer (Mechanical/Electrical)

Workshop Engineer required to support the growth of a small team to service, maintain and adapt machinery to suit customer needs.

Essential:

• A relevant Engineering qualification or experience/apprenticeship
• Hands on experience with pneumatics, electrical and mechanical engineering
• Great communicator
• Ability to take initiative
• Hands on approach
• COSHH awareness
• Computer literacy and ability to use Microsoft software (Word, excel, outlook)

Desirable:

• Experience of using drawing software or programming software would be highly beneficial
• Experience of using Solidworks, Rockwell Alan Bradley and Omron software desirable but not essential
• Experience of deciding panel layout of electrical systems
• Fork lift licence

Daily tasks/responsibilities:

• Prepare machines prior to sale or customer on-site use - working to set checklists.
• Service and/or maintenance on industrial food processing and packaging machinery
• Building control panels from scratch using mechanical, electrical and pneumatic components
• Fault finding on electrical systems.
• Designing small scale electrical and pneumatic systems in order to fill unique customer requirements.
• Changing or retrofitting electrical, mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic machine parts for a variety of food processing and packaging machinery according to customer requirements
• Working on projects or machinery both alone at times and as part of a team.
• Stripping down existing machinery and carrying out repairs
• Manoeuvring heavy machinery around the warehouse and workshop using forklift truck or pump truck
• Accurately documenting and recording machine information to ensure that all departments are kept informed.
• Using word and excel to create, edit and document various process in the warehouse
• Programming drives with pre-programmed manufacturer software and settings
• Maintaining clean and safe work area at all times.
• Liaising with stores team to ensure accurate booking-out of any required machine parts
• Cleaning machinery parts
• Working with various electrical systems (single phase, 3-phase and 24v)
• Working with R&D to ensure that projects designed in-house are fit for customer purpose.
• Working with Service to communicate about machinery in the workshop.
• Working with service engineers to support them with machinery queries.

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