PLC Automation Electrical Engineer

2 weeks ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Crown Holding inc Full time
Job Introduction

The purpose of the Electrical Engineer role is to maintain all electrical equipment, machinery, auxiliary instruments, and gauges, ensuring minimum disruption to production and compliance with safety requirements across the plant.

You will be working on new designs, both independently and alongside design and test engineers to devise innovative solutions to maximise line efficiency and support production output. You will also provide technical support to manufacturing teams.

Main Responsibility

Electrical Maintenance
  • Carry out and record maintenance work on machines and equipment, ensuring compliance with electrical safety legislation
  • Comply with planned electrical maintenance schedules
  • Update electrical programmes and associated programmes to ensure that information is current
  • Conduct research into the development and implementation of new and existing equipment
  • Perform statutory inspection and testing procedures, and safety inspections as per agreed schedule
  • Ensure care of plant instrumentation and undertake any servicing or calibration required
  • Provide flexible support across all manufacturing departments, where safety and training allow
  • Maintain an understanding of electrical safety legislations and regulations and ensure compliance with both

Fault Finding and Repair
  • Determine the nature of faults or breakdowns from information received from production personnel and interrogate the equipment
  • Analyse the symptoms of the fault, make initial assessments and if required report faults via usual reporting channels
  • Rectify faults and return the equipment to full production, in a safe and timely manner
  • Utilise logical fault-finding techniques to check through circuits, consulting with electrical drawings and using test equipment (e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic probe) etc., or VDU programme details as appropriate
  • After establishing and making good on rectification of faults, or if temporary actions are required to assist production, show awareness of how such actions impact on production and production personnel by ensuring full communication to all concerned

Installation and Modification
  • Install or commission new equipment in conjunction with Crown project support, external contractors, and suppliers
  • Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a CAD system; write up relevant PLC programmes
  • Recommend and implement improvements to line and ancillary equipment
  • Install hardware for modifications to the line, which can include mechanical containment of any nature, conduit, sensors, relays, range of PLCs, logic systems, level equipment, instrumentation, motors, control equipment etc.

Analysis
  • Analyse line performance in relation to speed, temperature and product flow and update PLC programmes to achieve optimum performance
  • Assess the feasibility of suggestions for improvements from all personnel and action improvements if appropriate
  • Record all changes in the online logbooks, electronic data and modification sheets

The Ideal Candidate

Required Education and Qualifications
  • 18th Edition or comparative qualification
  • L3 Apprenticeship (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering (with an electrical bias)
  • PLC experience (Allen Bradley / Siemens / Mitsubishi / Rockwell)

Beneficial Qualifications & Experience
  • HNC (Level 4)
  • Basic programming and fault-finding techniques
  • Relevant experience in a high-speed manufacturing environment
  • Performance of the line
  • Continuous improvement initiatives

Package Description

What Crown can offer you?
  • The opportunity to build a career in a multi-cultural environment
  • To be rewarded fairly and promoted based on merit and performance
  • Professional and personal development through training and work experiences
  • Strong engagement and commitment to the safety of our employees

Salary : £51,247 including shift premium

Hours : Continental Based Shift Rota, attending 2 x 12-hour days followed by 2 x 12-hour nights, then 4 days off. This equates to 144 rostered shifts per year and an outstanding work/life balance

Benefits
  • Site annual bonus scheme
  • 9% Company Pension contribution
  • Cash Health Plan
  • 25 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays (for employees working shifts this is mainly contained in the shift pattern)
  • Free parking on-site
  • Restaurant on-site
  • Cycle to work scheme

About the Company

As the world leader in metal packaging technology, Crown designs and manufactures a wide range of innovative and sustainable metal packaging solutions on a global scale. Our customers are some of the world's largest and most-respected FMCG brands.

In response to market growth, we are building our largest Plant yet and Peterborough will be its home. The Peterborough Plant will be part of our Bevcan EMEA Business. Crown Peterborough will benefit from state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies and modern practices to support high-speed and highly automated beverage can making

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