Senior Maintenance Engineer – Summary of role eng
Senior Maintenance Engineer – Activity Schedule
Job Context
• Reporting to the National Maintenance Manager (Postal Automation, IO Systems LTD)
• The Engineering Manager provides technical leadership for Maintenance Team in all An Post sites.
• Assisting in the Maintaining of procedures and documentation on behalf of I.O.Systems on ISO standards of Quality, providing technical support to the National Maintenance Manager
• Heavily involved in the creation of training programs with Maintenance Mgr
• Responsibility for Spares ensuring that stock and levels are adequate for our needs.
• Deputizing for the Maintenance Manager during absence.
• This is a senior role within our organization and carries with it the normal and expected responsibilities or managing a maintenance team on site.
There is a very broad range of highly technical and specialized equipment under the care of the Maintenance team.
Purpose of the Job
• To Provide Technical Leadership to the Maintenance Staff, in areas of technical difficulty that may arise as part of the daily duties..
• To Provide a key focus for the provision of long term solutions to technical issues that arise on all equipment, providing the technical solution that our maintenance staff will eventually use.
• To provide backup for the Maintenance team including the Maintenance Mgr wrt all technical issues.
• To provide cover for technical supervisor and Manager where required
• To be the technical expert that the maintenance team can turn to for a higher level of support on any machine related issue.
• Qualification of our Preventative, Predictive, Corrective maintenance and machine performance.
Main Responsibilities
• Attending and reporting on performance testing in the DMC. Using the failure information obtained during testing to develop better and improved maintenance practices within our group, feeding back this information to maintenance staff via supervisor and manager.
• Developing and maintaining customer relationships with users of the mail centre to the satisfaction of the customer
• Diagnosing and solving problems in a planned and cost effective way, taking into account technicians needs and the needs of the customer.
• Taking a proactive approach to the prevention of breakdowns and maintaining high quality of machine performance and machine availability, in a role that assists the maintenance Team
• Developing, utilising and maintaining appropriate information systems, identify problem areas and modifications for machine improvements.
• Follow up on improvements to provide a continually improving service to the customer.
• Be aware of and in accordance with current health and safety legislation and best practices as it relates to the workplace give guidance and direction to others where necessary.
• Implementation/modification and generation of Maintenance productive maintenance procedures.
• Communicate with others in the postal organisation understanding their views and needs, explaining and presenting information that will be easily understood and directing as necessary.
• Taking the lead role in co-coordinating technical issues that require longer term solutions, ensuring that all the necessary external support if and when required, is utilised effectively (cost and timeliness). Ensuring that the maintenance team are directed as found through this investigation, modifying the methods and procedures as appropriate.
• Accurate and concise reporting of all such investigations providing traceable reports detailing all investigations, findings and conclusions.
• Identifying and responding to changing, operational needs, demonstrating flexibility and ensuring the understanding of the requirements of the customer and the need for optimizing and fine tuning performance.
• Provide Second level of escalation for equipment faults, assisting as required.
• It is important that this role assumes overall technical expertise with the equipment, addressing and resolving the high level issues that arise out of performance testing, routine maintenance and live performance. The solutions obtained by means of detailed investigations will then be fed back to the maintenance team via the appropriate route ( maint mgr, tech supervisor, technician) with the appropriate recommendations for modification of the process or procedures.
• All aspects of Spares management including tracking (CMMS), sourcing, purchasing, deliveries and invoicing.
Knowledge Skills and Experience
• Expertise in automation systems with specialist knowledge of key elements and understanding of their function in An Post.
• The current (large) equipment suppliers include; NEC, Leonardo, Beumer and EA&E.
• A recognised engineering qualification which provides expertise in Electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering and knowledge on replacement of all computer systems.
• Experience in planning, organising and solving advanced technical issues using proper traceable methods.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety at work.
• Interpersonal skills such as the ability to make technical problems understood by non-technical people, listening coaching, and supporting motivation.
• Advanced problem —solving skills, including using and interpreting statistical tests and data.
• Expertise in all key elements of the mail centre.
• To assist growth in the technical knowledge and expertise of the full Maintenance team through observation, suggestion and action as necessary.
Decisions
• Decision in consultations with the Plant Manager, Maintenance Manager, and Shift Manager(s) on operational needs.
• Where appropriate coaching, developing on Maintenance staff on maintenance practices and new procedures.
• In consultation with the Area Manager, modification and implementation of new/improved maintenance routines.
• Assist where appropriate in the decision on escalation of fault status to next level.
For more information, please apply through the link provided for the attention of Daniel Kirwan or email daniel.kirwan@osborne.ie
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