MAINTENANCE ENGINEER – Backshift  

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Full time 40 hours per week Monday to Thursday

Option to work up to 46 hours in busy periods

Competitive salary, bonus scheme, 26 days holidays per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance. Flexible Benefits perks including dental insurance, gym membership and retail discounts.

About the role

As a backshift Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be an important member of the manufacturing team, responsible for meeting production targets while ensuring our automated systems remain fully maintained and operational.

Reporting to the Head of Engineering UK, you’ll work in a fast paced environment, where you’ll take responsibility for a planned preventative maintenance programme, ensuring machinery and equipment meets optimised performance while meeting health & safety requirements and relevant legislation.

Where unplanned stoppages do occur, you will work safely and systematically to resolve any issues quickly to minimise impact on production timelines – and contribute to Root Cause Analysis and countermeasures to reduce recurrence.

You’ll be responsible for managing the use of approved maintenance contractors where required, ensuring works are undertaken to the highest compliance standards, minimising business impact.

You’ll perform works scheduled by and record activities in our CMMS system (FIIX).

You’ll play a key role in the introduction of new products, equipment and manufacturing techniques and will be an active contributor to Continuous Improvement and Lean Culture.

Your skills

You have several years of experience as a Maintenance Electrician or Maintenance Fitter in a production related maintenance role with some exposure to PLC fault diagnosis. IPAF MEWP Licence (Type 3A & 3B).

You will be apprentice-trained or have recognised qualifications with several years of experience as a Maintenance Engineer or Maintenance Technician in a production environment, with some exposure to PLC fault diagnosis preferred.

You’ll be comfortable taking decisions and recommending solutions based on data with a good working knowledge of PUWER/LOLER/COSHH and other relevant Health & Safety regulations.

As we look to the future – ideally, you’ll have experience in maintaining robots and an understanding of data communications in a machine environment/fieldbuses/IP addressing and common communication protocols.

You’ll be competent in working with I.T. networks. (Ethercat/Ethernet/Profibus/Profinet/Modbus/TCPIP/UDP)

If you have a passion for success, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch. If this sounds like the right step for your career, please click here to apply and find out more.

A bit about us

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future. We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK.  Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills.

Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable. We’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.