Melton Mowbray, England, United Kingdom
As an asset carer in the solid dose packing department, it is my responsibility to: • Look after all things engineering related on 4 packing lines including managing budgets. • Plan the week’s maintenance that involves balancing between planned maintenance, reactive work and any line upgrades. • Coaching a team of maintenance technicians to help them progress their career • Follow up and support on any breakdowns to prevent the issue happening again. Using root cause analysis to achieve efficient and permanent solutions to problematic issues. • Using SAP to change and amend any routine maintenance, report any extra work carried out and use SAP to order parts • Support any project work and upgrades that are planned to be carried out on the lines. Currently rolling out condition and counter based maintenance with the view of using our blueprint to roll out across factories worldwide. • Decommission or create any new Assets that are added to the packing lines. • Regularly stepping into cover the reliability manager for the site and the area engineering leads during absences.
As a maintenance engineer in this abattoir for cattle it is my responsibility to: • First port of call for any breakdowns that may occur from the beginning of the production line right through to the distribution side. A lot of equipment onsite consists of hydraulic and pneumatic platforms, mechanical knifes and other similar equipment associated with the process. Daily start up checks have to be done every day to ensure the safety of the production team and ensure the equipment is efficient. I also have to be flexible as possible to carry out regular maintenance while production is not taking place.
As a maintenance engineer it is my responsibility to: • First port of call for any breakdowns that may occur across the whole site with priority of refrigeration plant. The various equipment includes: palletiser, cold store mobile racking, cold store rated doors, refrigeration equipment such as compressors, condensers and evaporators, packing lines, roller and belt conveyors, dock levellers. • Carrying out planned preventative maintenance on various pieces of machinery around the site including the use of root cause analysis to achieve efficient and permanent solutions to problematic issues. • Effective use of parts including identifying spares and updating service records to keep control of equipment stock levels. • Basic fault finding of electrical systems such as Motor replacement, basic testing and repair of lighting circuits.
• Responsibility for performance of packing line running at 172,800 cartons per day. Making sure all the equipment is running efficiently and effectively so the performance of the line is adhering to site KPI targets. If the line isn’t performing at benchmark it is my responsibility to find out why and to improve the problem areas. This is critical so not hold up any other parts of the production process. • Make sure maintenance tasks are all completed each week to a high standard. I also have to make sure all lines are safe to work on and follow all health and safety requirements. This includes risk assessments, method statements and safe lock off procedures. • Manage shutdowns on each line, which includes ordering parts, allocating what jobs are to be completed, and completing the tasks on time. Measure of success being mean time between failure and mean time to repair. • Machinery worked on include: Thermoformers, Cartonner, Conveyors systems, Transfer equipment. All of which are critical to the production line process and meeting customer demands.