Equipment Development Engineer

Equipment Development Engineer

Fife

£ Excellent

My client is a global organisation based in Fife. Due to continued growth, fantastic opportunity has been created for an Equipment Development Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities:

Establish and implement data gathering, and analysis of machine performance

Carry out root cause analysis of problems and implement repair.

Improvement of machine availability through upgrades, physical improvements and optimisation of setup.

Analysis of machine maintenance with a view to optimising maintenance processes.

Establish predictive maintenance processes for equipment.

Continuous improvement of all processes associated with machine setup, change, maintenance and performance.

Work in conjunction with test engineering to improve overall processes

Carry out cross-functional training for technical support department (technicians)

Install new and/or transfer equipment and processes from sister company including training, documentation and release of equipment to production

Ideal candidate:

Degree in mechanical/electro-mechanical discipline or equivalent

Work experience in volume production support environment would be advantageous

Capable of analysing equipment performance and implementing changes to improve throughput, yield and availability.

Knowledge of pneumatics, stepper motors and controllers

Knowledge/experience of FMEA, Control plans, statistical techniques