Mechanical Engineer
Newton Aycliffe
Permanent
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.
*Full understanding and implementation of relevant mechanical legal requirements and engineering standards / processes
*Fulfil relevant appointed roles (eg for guard inspections etc)
*Use of robust inspection management / lookahead processes to ensure 100% compliance with Statutory and Codal inspections
*Regular review of asset integrity and condition using a defined management processes
*Support and uphold the relevant Process & Behavioural Safety Principles to ensure asset integrity
*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
*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
*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.
*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