Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager - Bristol, United Kingdom - Talentspa

Talentspa

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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Our client is currently looking for a Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager to join their busy team in Bristol, BS2.

The Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager will be supporting production to maintain existing equipment as part of a preventive maintenance schedule and on an ad hoc basis as required.

The Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager will take responsibilityfor Maintenance Technicians both mechanical and electrical and coordinate their workload to ensure the preventative maintenance program is being delivered.

You will be looking for opportunities to improve existing equipment or areas that need new equipmentand developing designs and specifications to fill the identified gaps.

The Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager will be able to fault find and repair electronic/electrical systems, installations, and infrastructure within the company with a focus on reducingthe amount of external contractors they are reliant on to support ongoing production.

The Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager will be involved in New Product Introduction.

They will work with R & D, Quality, Production and other members of the Production Engineering team to define the production processes and testing requirements forthe new product lines.

They will be involved in design for manufacture reviews, failure mode effect analysis meetings and liaison with suppliers to ensure production will have everything they need to deliver the highest quality product.

We will be lookingfor the Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager, to be aware of emerging technologies and industry best practices and look to include them in the new product introductions.

Contract Type:
Full Time, Permanent

Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager Duties:

Identify and track all production equipment
Ensure preventive maintenance schedules are in place and being carried out on production equipment.
Advise and implement, new & upgrading of existing equipment to electronic industrial controls
Aid the introduction of new processes and equipment
Support all departments on the use, introduction and implementation of electronics.
Install electrical requirements of the company, including general maintenance and upkeep of production equipment
Keep up to date with new advances in electronics/electrics
Supervise junior maintenance engineers/technicians
Control and administration of all maintenance spare parts
Programming and setup of PLC controls
Installation, maintenance and repair of facilities requiring electrical/electronics knowledge

Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager Requirements:

Experience of working in a similar role in a manufacturing environment
Experience with preventative maintenance work
Experience in working with panel wiring
Knowledge and experience with manufacturing equipment used for an injection moulding process
Knowledge of the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
Minimum Level 3 C&G/BTEC in an electrical/electronic engineering discipline or relevant apprenticeship
Methodical thinking and ability to manage own workload
Good communicator, verbally and in writing
Problemsolving skills
Train and mentor junior team members
Experience of Samsung PLC's and the use of C++ and ladder logic for programming would be beneficial
Able to make use of manual workshop machinery e.g. lathes and turret milling machines, cutting saws, pillar drills etc. would be beneficial

Senior Maintenance and Facilities Manager Benefits:

In return they offer a competitive salary and a performance-related bonus based on personal objectives that pays up to 5% of your salary annually, study support and the chance to progress in a rapidly growing company.

They have recently introduced a new flexible working policy; it currently allows employees to work from home one day a week (if their work can be done from home).

This is a new initiative that they will review and extend if employees value it and it workswell. You will also have the option to work longer hours during the week and finish early on a Friday.

Other benefits include a salary sacrifice pension scheme where the company matches your contribution up to 5% plus Employer NI savings - currently 15.05% of your contribution (this also applies to voluntary contributions), a non-contributory healthcare cashplan including access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), life insurance paying 4x your salary, access to a virtual GP, 25 days holiday and a cycle to work scheme.

About the Company:

Over the past 30 years our client has become a global player in the medical simulation education market.

It has ambitious plans for further growth in the next 5 years across the globe, through investment and new product development.

Multi award winning and still privately owned, the £25M business has grown from a tabletop start up, to a multinational business with its head office and manufacturing in Bristol, along with sales offices in the USA, Australia and Sweden.

The vision of the business remains as it always has: to design and manufacture medical task trainers which through deliberate clinical practice help improve patient outcomes.

People are at the heart of our clients business, they create the vision, the expertise and the delivery of this ever evolving and growing market sector.