Engineer

Job Title: Blowing Engineer

Location: Tenbury Wells 

Salary: £35,000 PA

Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent

Role Overview:

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Fault investigation
• Servicing of blowing machines
• Setup and run downstream equipment e.g. airveyors, laners, robots
• Support the Production Manager
• Flexibility to support Team Members
• Take ownership of GMP, Health and Safety issues in the manufacturing area
• Completion of Asset Care Tasks
• Completion of Condition Monitoring Tasks
• Drive/support improvement projects within the blow moulding area
• Support for annual overhaul activity
• Train & develop colleagues in processing, fault finding and repair within the blow moulding area
• Mentor Apprentices

Essential Skills

•  Experience  of Krones and Sidel blow moulding machines
•  Ability to implement process changes to affect material distribution , weights  and other physical properties/dimensions
•  Willingness to learn
•   “Can-do” attitude
•   Able to motivate and train others
•  Time management to work to deadlines
•  Able to work under pressure
•  Knowledge of mould/tooling change procedures and steps/methods for line changes
•  Proficient in the use of engineering tools
•  Ability to train others
•  Able to adjust/set up / keep machinery operating to peak efficiencies 
•  Can overhaul machine parts including low/high pressure valves
•  Experience of mechanical engineering in a blow moulding environment ideally a time served Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G , SVQ or equivalent)
•  Electrical knowledge
•  Diagnose and repair electrical faults
•  PLC – programming , fault finding , control panel wiring
•  Ensure compliance with electrical safety standards
•  Ability to fault find to component level
•  Can work in a team or independently
•  Computer literate