Are you used to working obscure hours but lack a challenge in your existing job? Haven’t had a regimented sleep pattern in years? Looking to become part of a Multi-Billion Pound company?

Randstad Engineering are currently recruiting for a Mechanical Shift Engineer to come and work for Tata Steel, Willenhall in the Maintenance department.

Role: Mechanical Shift Engineer

Location: TATA Steel, Willenhall WV11 3SQ

Rate: £42,480 per annum (Inc 18% Shift Allowance)

Shift Patterns:

Morning Shift - Monday to Thursday - 06:00hrs to 14:00hrs

- Friday - 06:00hrs to 11:50hrs

Night Shift - Monday to Thursday - 22:00hrs to 06:00hrs

- Friday - No Night shift

Afternoons Shift - Monday to Thursday - 14:00hrs to 22:00hrs

- Friday - 11:50hrs to 17:40hrs

- Sat or Sun - 06:00hrs to 16:00hrs

The Role

As an Mechanical Shift Engineer, you will support our operations teams by performing necessary breakdown repairs, leading preventative maintenance activity and facilitating the promotion of engineering solutions for process improvement to ensure process availability and

productivity are optimised.

The role of the Maintenance Engineers is to effectively maintain all process and auxiliary equipment across the Steelpark with an aim to improve up time while reducing costs. All maintenance engineers will be expected to work a 3 shift-rotating pattern.

Duties

Maintain and repair processing machinery and ancillary equipment in a safe and

Productive manner in order to maximise availability at optimum cost.

Adhere to the preventative maintenance programmes to ensure that unplanned downtime is avoided.

Through utilisation of the SHIRE (PM) system ensure engineering spares and inventory on site are managed within budget constraints and equipment downtime is minimised.

Procure and manage contract resource to ensure prompt and cost effective recovery frombreakdown.

Understand, deploy and seek to recommend improvements to production control procedures to support team performance objectives.

To provide a source of expertise in programmable/configurable devices (instrumentation, PLCs,drives etc.)

The Candidate

The ideal candidate must be qualified to ONC or City & Guilds Mechanical Applicants will have demonstrable experience of a relevant engineering discipline, continuous improvement processes, preventative maintenance techniques and dealing with contractors.

In depth knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics, welding and first stage mechanical fault finding.

Experience of first stage fault finding, PLCs, drives and AC/DC controllers is also desirable

You will have the ability to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and be computer literate.

The ability to work without close supervision, yet under pressure and to tight

timescales is essential.