Job Purpose: We are hiring a multi-skilled shift engineer to facilitate all engineering activities associated with maintaining a 24hr manufacturing plant, to provide breakdown repairs, health and safety improvements, and deliver projects to improve plant performance and efficiency. Shift pattern will include days, evenings, and nights.
The role will be a solo shift engineer working alongside shift technicians to keep the manufacturing plant running and to ensure all PPMs are carried through efficiently. Prioritising work and site issues is needed within this role to allow manufacturing to continue without falter.
Key Accountabilities:
- To maintain and support Health & Safety / Environmental requirements in accordance with internal Ideal Standard standards and legislative requirements, application of LOTO and required permit to work procedures.
- To respond to breakdowns and maintain / repair plant and equipment within the required time scale with the highest of standards and ethical behaviours.
- Supply routine breakdown and engineering project status information to engineering team Leader.
- To request where applicable for additional support for timely repairs from technicians, day shift and contract engineers.
- To ensure engineering interventions meet the required standards and best practice.
- Carry out investigations into problems or production development initiatives, individually or as a member of a project team.
- Contribute when required, to Plant Engineering projects.
- Contribute to the design considerations of equipment and processes within the plant.
- Identify areas to reduce maintenance spend and machine down time.
- Updating and control of engineering report documentation (Shires).
- Control of spares, from placement of order to stock control.
- Fire team & fire panel maintenance.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Electrical qualifications are a must with an additional 2 – 3 years relevant experience.
- Mechanical qualifications or relevant proven experience within pipefitting, welding and tooling works.
- PLC knowledge an advantage.
- Electrical engineers to provide evidence of 17th or above electrical legislation.
- Knowledge production processes to achieve conformance of H&S environment and quality.
- Knowledge of Engineering and Technology processes in the spirit of continuous improvement.
- Basic knowledge of systems and processes for managing ordering equipment / spares from placement of order to delivery of component/service.
- Conduct root cause analysis.
- Communication and presentation skills.
- Demonstrate ability to apply ethical reasoning in decision-making and consistently deliver work to the highest standard.
- Applies analysis and judgement to assess performance against key measures, to decide between priorities and solve problems.
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, repairs, and inspections to ensure compliance with regulations and company policies.
- Proficient in engineering software tools and TPM management platforms.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Permit management ensuring all legislation and company procedures are followed.
Behavioural Skills
- Strives to meet a high standard of engineering intervention.
- Self-motivated with desire to make a success of any job presented.
- Resourceful, pragmatic, and innovative.
- Achievement Drive: determined to succeed.
- Quality and process orientation.
- Analytical and problem-solving approach.
- Decisive and shows good judgement.
- Deals sensitively, assertively, persuasively with others.
- Continuously looks for improvements.
- Manages deadlines, time scales, multi-tasking, and prioritisation.
- Takes personal ownership to see problems through, decision-making capability.
- Looks for and applies best practice.
- Able to communicate with all levels.
- Flexible working, additional hours when required.
Skills Required
- Electrical qualification with an additional 2-3 years relevant experience
- Evidence of 17th edition or above electrical legislation knowledge
- Mechanical qualifications or proven experience in pipefitting, welding and tooling
- PLC knowledge
- Knowledge of production processes to ensure H&S and quality conformance
- Ability to apply LOTO and permit to work procedures and manage permits
- Proficient in engineering software tools and TPM management platforms
- Conduct root cause analysis and problem investigations
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance activities, repairs and inspections
- Control spares lifecycle from ordering to stock control
- Fire team participation and fire panel maintenance
- Communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities
What We Do
Opportunities for go-getters and goal-setters – become part of Villeroy & Boch! Ceramic is our strength. But the ability to perceive things differently is also part of our DNA. For this precise reason, we are looking for motivated colleagues to join our 8,000 employees in 125 countries. People who are eager to make things happen and rise to new challenges. And to work with us to shape Villeroy & Boch's successful future. Find out more about our extensive and varied vacancies offering excellent career and development prospects – in departments including Marketing & Sales, Online Marketing & E-commerce, HR, Finance, SCM, IT and Production. Take your first step on the career ladder with Villeroy & Boch Pupils: build solid foundations for your career with an apprenticeship or a dual study programme. Students: from work experience to student traineeships or dissertation – opportunities are available in many different departments. Graduates: as part of our junior programme, we support you all the way to your first management position. Professionals: we offer exciting opportunities for people at all stages of their careers, from entry-level positions to management roles. You will take on exciting tasks as well as responsibility at Villeroy & Boch from day one. Because we firmly believe that each and every one of our employees has his or her own very individual strengths. We will help to you fully explore this valuable potential, with tailored training and development programmes, a balance between career and family life, an attractive working environment with impressive architecture, modern offices and a friendly atmosphere. And, of course, by rewarding outstanding performance. Visit our careers website now to find out more about the company and our current vacancies. We look forward to hearing from you. Visit villeroyboch.com/career! Legal notice & privacy policy: https://www.villeroy-boch.de/social-media-datenschutz-impressum.html
