What awaits you:

Ensure reliability of our manufacturing processes by stabilising the performance of physical assets, defining and setting standards for the proper management and care of the assets and installation under his/her responsibility whilst ensuring optimum levels of availability, at the lowest total cost of ownership.  The role needs to have a strong view of the short to medium term to move the performance of the plant to one that is proactive, while supporting the day-to-day plant activities to ensure the processes are reliable.  We are looking for an interim Site Electrical Engineer who to enhance our existing engineering team. Working as a key team member all candidates must have at least 5 years Engineering experience and be qualified to a minimum of HNC (preferably BEng Degree / HND) in an Electrical Engineering discipline, with a can-do attitude. Strong Electrical, Control, Automation, and Instrumentation skills with knowledge of 3 phase LV systems and HV distribution.

To support and help deliver all Electrical & Automation activities across site. The job holder will support CAPEX/Revenue projects, be responsible for delivering Reliability, Site services, improving process performance through OEE improvements.

The role needs to have a strong view of the short to medium term to move the performance of the plant to one that is proactive, while supporting the day-to-day plant activities to ensure that the processes are reliable.

Liaison with operations to develop timely plans to reduce maintenance cost and impact to the process.

How you convince us:

• Support the Site Engineers to deliver the maintenance plan for Latchford.

• Preventive Maintenance of all Electrical & Automation Control systems.
• Duty Holder for site Electrical distribution system, ensure legal compliance with maintenance of Fixed Electrical assets, High & Low Voltage
• Obsolescence: Identifying-aging assets planning upgrades based on OEM life Cycle (PLC, HMI, Controls & Instrumentation)

• Ensure correct use and feedback through SAP to create history and working knowledge of the process.

• Good project management skills with experience of Management of Contractors.

• Develop forward plans to improve the process availability and deliver reliability to a greater proactive and forward focused state. Utilising tools such as RCA, Pareto, FMEA etc.
• Control & delivery of 'Shutdown' maintenance plans & on time Execution.

• Experience of Root Cause Analysis and selecting strong countermeasures to prevent re-occurrence of issues.

The Novelis Latchford plant a suburb of Warrington Cheshire in England employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK. The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsoring health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program “Every Can Counts” to actively promote can recycling across Europe.