Electrical Engineer - Maintenance

About this opportunity

Your work environment:

At Sonoco Packaging, we take pride in meeting and exceeding our customers’ needs. Join us and you’ll be part of a sustainable Company with 6,300 employees, a reputation for excellence and operations with 45 plants in 18 countries.  Across Food, Aerosol and Specialty Divisions, Sonoco is the largest global player in food metal packaging. The Braunstone Plant in Leicester is one of the largest food can plants in Europe, housing 3 major production lines producing up to 1.5 billion cans per year.

Your mission in Eviosys:

A vacancy has arisen in our day based Electrical Team for an Electrical Engineer – Maintenance.  The purpose of the role is to maintain electrical equipment, machinery and services, auxiliary instruments/gauges, improve reliability and comply with safety requirements across the Plant.  You will develop plans for replacing or updating old and obsolete equipment. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, ambitious individual with an attitude to fix faults and offer continuous improvement across all areas.

Key areas of responsibility include:

    Complete and record all electrical installation and modification work on machines and equipment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation. To conduct risk assessment and write Safe System of Work for various tasks and equipment, and assist in PUWER assessment of plant and equipment
    To plan and implement updates and replacement of obsolete equipment.
    Manage reactive and proactive maintenance strategy for old and new equipment, develop schedules on the computerised maintenance management system to improve reliability, including power plant, PLC and control systems, plant instrumentation and any servicing or calibration.
    Monitor faults or breakdowns logged and associated losses and implement reliability improvements.
    Lead and manage site electrical resource and support with logical fault-finding techniques to resolve issues, and to follow up with corrective actions, written ‘one point lessons’ and appropriate roll out to other plant and equipment.
    Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a C.A.D system; write up relevant PLC programmes with a well-documented and updated Control Synopsis.
    Install hardware for modifications to line, which can include conduit, sensors, relays, range of PLCs, logic systems, level equipment, instrumentation, motors, control equipment etc.
    To have experience in critical stock control including consignment and plant based inventory systems 

About you:

Preferably, you have experience of Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLC in high-speed manufacturing, using computerised maintenance systems, and hands-on experience of electrical installation projects would be advantageous. 

You will be a time served Electrical Engineering Apprentice and have an awareness of 18th Edition as well as competency and experience in working to requirements set in BS7671, BS2391 and other legislation.  You will have knowledge of Electricity at Work Regulations and of Safe Working Practices including Lock Off and Tag Out. 

We offer a competitive salary, shift premium, 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) as well as on site parking, a site annual bonus scheme and subsidised restaurant.