Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

We are currently looking for a Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer

A little about us:

With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme.

We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence and currently have this opportunity available:

About the role:

The core responsibility of this role is to support manufacturing maintenance performance, in order to improve asset and equipment availability and achieve the required level of performance. This will involve supporting the adherence to the Agility maintenance schedule to deliver quality daily maintenance and repair plans, to the highest standard. This also includes carrying out scheduled, planned, reactive and preventative maintenance activities, that support manufacturing equipment OEE. The day-to-day tasks of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the manufacturing asset/equipment weekly schedule, to ensure assets and equipment are available to operate at the required level of performance, when manufacturing require, via the delivery of quality maintenance activities and standards.

• Supporting the transition from a reactive, to a planned and preventative maintenance culture.

• Supporting the adherence to the Agility maintenance; (scheduled, planned and reactive maintenance and repair plans), to the highest standard in order to maintain manufacturing equipment OEE.

• Analysis of failure modes to create preventative maintenance regimes.

• Recording accurate feedback on tasks completed, including spare parts used, time taken, any changes required to the instruction, and any safety, reliability or performance concerns

• In the event of a breakdown or critical defect being reported, use fault finding and diagnostic skills to provide the necessary leadership, support and technical guidance required to carry out prompt and reactive investigations.

• Providing feedback on findings in an appropriate and professional manner, report writing and leading problem solving activities to identify root cause and prevent re-occurrence, for issues that affect safety, operational reliability, services or asset performance.

• Working closely with your line manager to establish mean time between failure techniques and apply cost-effective mean time to repair methods to minimise production disruption and downtime impact and support the development and robustness of the KNDS UK maintenance strategy.

• Responsible for the delivery of robust reports, ensuring data integrity, from asset inspections and maintenance; to detail any identified defects that are unable to be rectified.

• Contribution to any PPS reports associated with significant downtime.

• Providing flexibility to support the manufacturing production requirements, to deliver the weekly schedule while also maximising production uptime and machinery performance.

• Working across all KNDS UK factory areas and grounds – the role will be actively deployed across all aspects of KNDS UK.

What we need from you:

We need you to be a Multi Skilled Technician/Engineer (HNC/HND Electrical/Mechanical engineering) with 18th edition and to have completed recognised Health and Safety training and have proven competence. We need you to have experience in a similar factory or fabrication maintenance environment and experience within manufacturing maintenance is advantageous. You should have in-depth knowledge of manufacturing CNC equipment and tooling, PLC, invertors and drives and show demonstrable competence in fault diagnostics, maintenance and repair.

What you can expect from us:

We signed the Armed Forces Covenant in 2018 and achieved their Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award in 2020 which means that we actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process. When you become part of the KNDS UK team, you will enjoy a range of employee benefits such as:

• Competitive salary

• Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)

• Flexible working

• Half day Friday

• Life assurance scheme

• Company sick pay scheme which increases with service

• Generous holiday leave which increases with service

• Free unreserved car parking, with electric charging stations

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply by clicking the link at the top of the page or email your CV with a cover letter to careers@knds.co.uk.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Please note that we have a Preferred Supplier List in place and we will contact agencies directly should the need arise, however any unsolicited CVs received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee.