Shift Engineer

Job Title

Maintenance Technician

Thames and Plaistow Sites

Maintenance Supervisor or Manager

Mon-Fri: 1 week days, 1 week afternoons, 1 week nights

£55,700 + 24.3% shift allowance: £69,235

Provision of an effective maintenance service to all plant/equipment used within the refining and packing areas, with emphasis on improving plant availability & reliability.

• Carry out plant isolations.
• Maintenance responsibility for all mechanical, electrical and electronic systems employed within the Process, Packing, Utilities and Jetty sections.
• Carry out reactive maintenance when required by plant priorities.
• Progress to agreed maintenance plans.
• Plan, schedule & agree daily/weekly workload with the Area Maintenance Leader, incorporating Preventative, Predictive and improvement activities.
• Plan plant insurance inspections liaising with the insurance inspector when required.
• Complete plant improvement projects as time allows.
• Supervise maintenance activities optimizing available on site resources and contractors to ensure expedient, high quality repairs, servicing and improvement projects.
• Administer and review SAP maintenance system for budgeting, historical trend & reliability analysis, and in order to maintain accurate SAP inventories.
• Undertake detailed RCA on component failures, generating and implementing modifications & improvements to address reliability and performance issues within the plant.
• Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects.
• Participate in capital projects at all stages of implementation through to commissioning including pre-delivery inspections & installation of new plant for area of responsibility.
• Meet with suppliers or potential suppliers and carry out audits/visits to suppliers’ premises when required.
• Mentor, train and advise on engineering practices and Maintenance issues at all levels.
• Plant reliability measured in up time, OEE & lost opportunity.

• Comparable experience of maintenance within an automated continuous process environment, which may include PLC and/or HT systems.
• Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes.

• Preferably an HNC/NVQ 4 in an engineering discipline, at least BTEC/ONC in relevant discipline.