Are you an experienced Mechanical Engineer? Do you consider yourself to be personable asset to a busy team? Are you based in or around Willenhall? If yes, we have a permanent position available within TATA Steel in the Maintenance department.

Role: Mechanical Engineer
Location: Steelpark Way, Willenhall, Wolverhampton WV11 3SQ
Salary: £42,480 per annum (with an 18% shift allowance included) on a permanent basis.
Shift Patterns: The candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week on a rotating 3-shift pattern.

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

Responsibilities:
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 and responsibilities within the role include but are not limited to:
● 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 from breakdown.
● 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.

Why us?
Tata Steel is one of the world's top 10 steel producers with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents.
We're part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.
Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.
Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045

Does this role sound interesting? Apply today and a member of the team will be in contact if you meet our requirements.
All applicants are subject to vetting checks including: Right to work check, DBS check and reference check.

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.