SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER

“Fantastic career development opportunity for degree educated Senior Mechanical Engineer with team leadership experience”.

North West

This is an exciting career development opportunity for a degree level educated and ambitious Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the plant maintenance and engineering team of a market leader.

Responsibilities

• Managing and motivating their team ensuring coordination and cooperation between departments (production, process, maintenance, procurement, senior management).
• Ensuring the execution and completion of maintenance work carried out on mechanical equipment with the highest level of safety, quality and effectiveness at minimum cost to maximise equipment operational availability.
• Applying preventative and predictive maintenance practices and contribute to plant improvements including ensuring quality control of maintenance undertaken by sub-contractors (working closely with suppliers, technical centre, and head office).
• Ensuring sustainable performance which is aligned to plant objectives, values and behaviours.
• Definition of the medium and long-term strategy for plant maintenance.

The Ideal Applicant

• Engineering Degree or equivalent.
• Must understand both engineering and broader business principles.
• Highly proficient in engineering maintenance systems such as Maximo (or similar) and also ERP systems such as SAP or JDE, Microsoft Office applications including Excel and PowerPoint.
• NEBOSH or IOSH would be highly advantageous.
• At least five years team leadership, motivation and people development experience ideally gained within the process/heavy industry sector.
• Technical knowledge of industrial raw materials, processing and maintenance management.
• Knowledge of ISO Standards and certification process.
• Financial management and budget control.
• Track record of transformational cultural change, leading by example: innovative, inspirational and energising.
• Excellent ability to organise and construct the development of a strong team, coaching and building their performance, setting and delivering measurable results.
• Ability to grasp big-picture and key details simultaneously: anticipating barriers and resolving challenges, achieving things collaboratively.
• High personal integrity and credibility.
• A personality which challenges conventional solutions –a Continuous Improvement Agent.

Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people. Relocation assistance will also be considered.

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