**Role**: Machine Inspector

**Location**: Heywood

**Role Type**: Permanent

**Salary**:£32,000 per annum

**About the role**:
Based in a busy production area made up of Electrical and Mechanical Fitters, Test Engineers and Goods In workers with responsibility for inspecting and testing components before they are assembled onto the machine.

**Main Responsibilities**:
**Management**:

- Maintaining standard procedures for quality inspection of all components and sub-assemblies
- Maintaining standard procedures for rejection of delivered items on quality issues
- Liaising with suppliers

**Quality**:

- Inspecting all critically dimensioned components and test vacuum integrity of sub-assemblies
- Ensuring that they are of the expected standard of quality
- Confirming that the specification matches the order
- Liaising closely with Purchasing and Engineering to align rejection recommendations
- Ensuring completion of correct paperwork and follow up actions
- Inspecting of all machined components where required
- Vacuum testing of machine components
- Pressure testing of components and sub-assemblies

**Development**:

- Contributing to ideas/innovation for continuous improvement
- Willing to develop existing skills

**About the Company**:
A multi-national engineering company which has a reputation for producing high quality machines through engineering excellence and that has always been at the forefront of innovation. They are one of the world’s leading suppliers of equipment and servicesto packaging and label manufacturers with a portfolio that supports all steps of the production workflow, from preparation to the finished product.

**Skills and experience required**:

- Practical understanding of engineering gained through a time served apprenticeship as a Fitter with a Mechanical bias preferred
- Willingness to travel on a worldwide basis around 4 times a year
- Experience of using computerised digital measuring equipment or willing to be trained to use it
- Experience of using surface measuring equipment
- Computer literate
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
- Ability to read Micrometers, Calipers, Height Gauges and Indicators
- Strong problem solving skills

**Desirable Experience**:

- Crane/lifting equipment
- Vacuum systems
- Pneumatic, hydraulic, machine controls, rotating machinery and other mechanical systems
- Capital machinery
- Gas Safety training

**What's in it for you**:
A great opportunity to join a leading global business who invest in the development of their employees. You will have the autonomy to develop this newly created role, working with a wide range of technical operatives and management and drive standards andinitiatives throughout the plant. A salary of £32,000 per annum, 33 days holiday including bank holidays, company pension, sick pay and incapacity benefit.