Mechanical Engineer

Location: Newton Aycliffe

Salary: Negotiable

Hours: Monday to Friday - Day shifts

Type: Permanent

Main purpose:

To plan and deliver the mechanical and civil engineering activities for the Newton Aycliffe Manufacturing Site to ensure that both external legal requirements and internal standards are adhered to and that the current and future targets for SHE, asset integrity and condition, reliability, production and fixed costs are achieved.

Regular review of asset integrity and condition using a defined management process
Support and uphold the relevant Process & Behavioural Safety Principles to ensure asset integrity
Specify and plan work utilising internal or external resource to ensure the delivery of safe, cost-effective maintenance.

Maintain working knowledge of all plant equipment and changes in technology
Attendance at daily production and maintenance meetings to maintain day to day understanding of plant issues and to provide support to resolve technical issues
Specify mechanical/civil tasks in SAP and create job packs for each task
Manage mech/civil contractors where required to ensure cost effective delivery
Develop and review task risk assessments to ensure the maintenance work we carry out is safe and best practice
Own and improve a quality build standard library
Define and implement proactive asset maintenance programmes and procedures to maintain or improve asset performance.

Manage preventative and predictive maintenance routines
Carry out annual review of asset condition and use as the basis for maintaining an asset life plan
Use reactive (RCA - Root Cause Analysis ) and proactive (RCM - Reliability Centred Maintenance /FMEA - Failure Modes Effect Analysis) reliability engineering techniques to improve site reliability
Contribute to the development of site engineering policies and organisation so as to achieve continuous improvements in all aspects of manufacturing capability.

Actively contribute to incident investigations, processes reviews and management team discussions
Participate in annual review of engineering systems and policies
Input to the training and development of all members of the engineering team to ensure appropriate levels of mech and civil competence and knowledge exist within the team. Develop and manage a skills and competency matrix for the mech team.
Using internal and external best practice standards

Own Asset Reliability meeting working with engineering colleagues and other departments.
Maintain an asset health dashboard to monitor and track plant asset/equipment health
Drive proactive maintenance based on data from the Condition Monitoring activities and downtime data available. Action trends indicating active failure modes.
Monitor key degradation mechanisms and proactively seek CAPEX or fixed cost support to maintain our asset base
Requirements

Graduate Mechanical Engineer with 3+ years experience

In depth knowledge of engineering standards and process relevant to pipework, vessels, structural inspections for example.

Working knowledge of relevant legislation - Pressure Systems Safety Regulations, Health and Safety at Work Act, Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations, Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations etc

Strong set of engineering skills in design, development and troubleshooting

Understanding of inspection and repair techniques for vessels and pipelines as well as rotating equipment. INS 5 process for example.

Understanding of inspection requirements of plant structures such as platforms, building fabric, fixed ladders, bunds and pipe bridges.

Understanding of budgets and their control

Good understanding of overhaul methodology

Working knowledge of equipment Condition Based Inspection methods.

For more information please contact Imperial Recruitment Group