£35-40 D.O.E Production Engineer34.5h hours a weekDays onlyKap Technical are working with an established market leader in developing new technologies and processes for the die cutting sector.The roleresponsible for ensuring the business has all the machines, tooling, and equipment to operate the business. Primarily this involves the maintenance of machines and tooling, but also includes maintaining the building services, introducing new equipment and processes in line with the New Product Introduction requirements of the business.Duties include: -

• Maintaining a safe working environment
• Minimising machine down time by maintaining and servicing the machines.
• Providing tooling to the Operations team in line with Quality, Cost and Delivery goals
• Pro-actively improving machine and process capability and reliability.
• Training members of staff in Preventative Maintenance
• Making tooling and equipment to minimise costs.
• Keeping service records / making drawings to ensure data integrity is maintained.

Qualifications and education requirementsFormal Qualifications are desired, for example HND in Engineering, and Electrical certification is desirable.Preferred skillsMechanical Engineering proficient including experience of using traditional and CNC machine tools, Electrical competence including machine controls. IT literate including MS Office, & Sage MRP. Problem Solving.