Electrical Maintainance Engineer

The Role

40 hours per week-shift hours 13.30-22.00 Monday to Friday

The Electrical Engineer will maintain all equipment and control systems and other facilities of the plant, ensuring all production lines at the manufacturing site run reliably and efficiently. Also, to partake in company projects related to the technical role. To help manage Maintenance Workshop, ensuring routine and non-routine maintenance activities carried out on the Site are executed in a safe, timely and consistent manner.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure all training relevant to the position and required tasks are completed and kept up to date. Use assigned initials within cGMP environment.

• All documentation relating to Nelson’s products are kept within Quality Management System (QMS) and adhere to Data Integrity (see POL-002).

• Understanding and adhering to cGMP environment requirements.

• To carry out the requirements of the planned preventive maintenance programme.

• To ensure production lines are capable of running at maximum efficiency through involvement in continuous improvement processes

• To perform day to day in depth fault finding, diagnosis and breakdown repairs as necessary

• To assist with machine changeovers, training technicians as necessary • To provide technical input into key operations projects e.g. facilities upgrade, capital investment proposals, new product introductions

• To carry out reactive and planned maintenance duties

• To carry out production line changes

• To train production staff as required

• To carry out maintenance to the Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) schedule

• To carry out any associated project work

• Support quality investigations including QIRs, deviations, and complaints, performing root cause analysis and ensuring effective CAPA implementation and closure.

• To assist with SOP/WI improvements

• To assist in stock control and management

• To keep track of all in-house engineering activities, keeping the relevant stakeholders updated on the progress of said activities.

• To provide updates on all critical breakdowns promptly to the Engineering Manager and other relevant stakeholders when required.

Requirements

Qualifications

• A Time-Served Electrical Engineer

• Educated to a minimum of GCSE level or equivalent (Maths and English)

• HNC/HND Engineering qualification

Experience and Knowledge:

• 18th Edition BS 7671:2018 regulations

• Understanding 415V AC – 24V DC

• 3 phase / single phase motors, Servos, VSD’s, VLT’s, Inverters

• Installation of containment – Ladder, Conduit and Basket

• Cable glanding – SWA, SY,

• Panel wiring and controls, including safety circuits

• Ability to understand and interpret wiring diagrams.

• PLC systems

• Previous experience working in a fast-paced GMP environment

• Working to Lean manufacturing principles, 5s and Kamban

• Mechanical experience is essential and electrical experience is desirable

• Knowledge of preventative maintenance programmes

• FMCG packaging machinery or pharmaceutical experience

• Experience in some or all of the following areas:

- Liquid filling

- Cartoning systems

- Labelling

- Tube filling

- Shrink wrap systems

- Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) interrogation (Omron, Allen Brady, Siemens)

• Ability to monitor and report results

Abilities and Behaviours:

• Professional, self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative

• Good interactive and communication skills (written and verbal)

• Team player with the ability to work effectively with colleagues at all levels

• Able to prioritise and deal effectively with a varied workload

• Able to work under pressure and to deadlines

• IT literate (Excel and ideally SAP)

• Good fault finding skills

• Ability to read ladder diagrams

• Lean manufacturing experience

• Adaptable and keen to learn

Benefits

Annual bonus

25 days holiday per year PLUS Christmas shut down

1 'Rescue' health and wellbeing holiday a year

Free products and staff discounts to keep you healthy and happy

Cycle to work scheme

Paid days off to volunteer for some awesome charities

Living Wage Employer

We also have regular socials plus all your standard stuff such as pensions, eye test vouchers and season ticket loans. We can tell you all about what is available to you when you start!

Nelsons is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual bringing their whole self to work and this includes you!