Mechanical Engineer

4 weeks ago

Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom Grupo Tradebe Full time
Job Description

The Mechanical Engineer will play a crucial role in ensuring the safe and efficient operation of our processing plant. This position requires a comprehensive range of processing plant knowledge, ideally with >2 years management/supervisory experience. A mechanical engineering degree is essential to provide effective support and control over maintenance activities, systems, equipment, and processes.

The Role

The successful candidate will possess a strong multi-discipline diverse background with experience gained working on either a CoMAH or PSSR site managing assets and utilities, all within corresponding appropriate environmental, health, and safety legislative requirements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure all assigned duties and tasks are carried out in compliance with statutory legal requirements and the company quality, health, and safety, and environmental policies.
  • Promote a positive health and safety culture by ensuring good housekeeping standards are used, correct PPE is being worn, and that any near miss, incident, or accidents are made safe and reported.
  • Adhere to Tradebe policies and procedures, ensuring that all necessary documentation for routine checks and calibrations are performed while maintaining the required standards.
  • Assist the Maintenance team to ensure the safe, standardized, and efficient maintenance of all plant and equipment as per planned routines and statutory requirements, including the completion of all documentation to satisfy these requirements.
  • Work with the Engineering Manager to plan shutdown work and intrusive safety-critical jobs with associated test bodies and departments, ensuring that all equipment is up to date and defects are suitably managed.
  • Ensure that all project plans, improvements, repairs, and shutdown works are performed to the appropriate standard, ensuring coordination of resources for the flawless execution of works to agreed timescales, including appropriate handover after completion.
  • Contribute to raising capital asset requests, including design input, the provision of technical and process data, specification requirements, procurement, contractor quotations, formal contract agreements, delivery, commissioning, and assessing resource requirements.
  • Work closely with Engineering teams to actively encourage the identification of appropriate upgrades, modifications, or enhanced maintenance routines to maximize and maintain plant availability and efficiency.
  • All engineering activities must follow Tradebe permit-to-work procedures, ensuring that a permit to work covers all work on plant, including a suitable risk assessment and method statements (or task instruction) covering all hazards, including access requirements, competency assessment, prerequisites for cleaning and isolations prior to starting tasks.
  • Regularly track progress and communicate progress, including potential issues, for all engineering and capex work.
  • Manage the detailed planning of materials/equipment deliveries and any additional resource involved with either preparation or planned works for maintenance activities or shutdown works.
  • Ensure all contract labor is fully aware of site activities and hazards, including their own responsibility to make safe any potentially unsafe situations by stopping tasks to isolate/communicate issues as appropriate.
  • Promote Continuous Improvement (CI) opportunities to improve plant and equipment operation/reliability and control through contributions from the production department and regular review of breakdown and spares data.
  • Champion engineering CI projects, utilizing the techniques and approach used within Six Sigma, including regular updates and presentation of progress.
  • As required, participate in MOC reviews, hazard studies, risk assessments, and accident investigations.
  • Follow Tradebe change management (MOC) system, ensuring that all engineering activities have been assessed against Tradebe procedures, ensuring no impact to operation or statutory requirements prior to the engineering team physically performing tasks.
  • Regularly review inspection and breakdown data, striving to improve plant availability by reducing any downtime and maximizing efficiency while identifying any potential CI opportunities to improve control, operation, or maintenance.
  • Ensure all waste generated through engineering activities is disposed of timely and efficiently in-line with current legislation.
  • Assist the Engineering Manager in all aspects of his work and deputize as required in his absence.
  • Define standards so that all work is undertaken in a manner conducive to good Health, Safety, and Environmental practices, paying particular attention to housekeeping by regular auditing programs and confirming that all defects are correctly reported and managed.
  • Housekeeping standards are maintained around the plant in accordance with best practices, with particular focus on compliance with DSEAR.
  • To communicate the KPIs of the department through provision of regular performance monitoring data as well as a monthly summary to the Engineering Manager.
  • Aiding and guiding the Engineering Supervisor to develop suitable task instructions and technical documents to cover all regular routines, and that these are kept up to date to include the latest available data, guidance, and best practices.
  • Provide suitable time and resource to appropriately manage hazard, risk, and COSHH assessments as required, reviewing findings and inclusion of all control aspects into relevant documentation and training plans.
  • Control the provision of suitable documentation, competent resource, and approval for all engineering Permit to Work requests as per Tradebe procedures, including monitoring to ensure that all works are performed as per expected site safety standards.
  • Encourage and challenge the engineering team to optimize plant/equipment to maximize group profitability while ensuring they follow correct and approved task instructions.
  • Ensure the engineering team is completing appropriate documentation and following all identified task instructions to safely and efficiently maintain plant while complying with all health, safety, and environmental requirements.
  • Review, assess, and plan as required capex projects for new plant and/or equipment coming to site, working closely with suppliers to supply appropriate information, timelines, and documentation.
  • Create clear and concise plans to execute and monitor progress of routine tasks, equipment repairs, and project work to keep site management team up to date.
  • Encourage good communications and reporting from engineering teams, providing timely feedback on tasks, any remaining faults, breakdowns, isolations in place, and any accidents, incidents, or near misses that have occurred.
  • Track departmental spend, aiming to keep within set budget through highlighting any significant spends in advance and weekly forecast reporting to the Engineering Manager.
  • Controlled documents are suitably managed; all updates are approved/updated on SAP, reviewed periodically, and are issued to teams as appropriate.
  • In the event of a Major Accident Hazard scenario, act as the Site Incident Controller (SIC) or provide support to the SIC in the event of the emergency services being called to site.

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