Multi Skilled Engineer

Job Title: Multi-Skilled Engineer

Salary: £35,400 - £46,050

Location: Duxford; Cambridge

Contract: Permanent; 35 hours per week

We are recruiting for a highly motivated Multi-Skilled Engineer to deliver planned maintenance, service and reactive repair work for all electro-mechanical equipment within our Group Print and Operations distribution centre.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

Group Print & Operations fulfil our customer requirements across the world, printing, packing and despatching millions of examination items securely to our customers around the world. We are also responsible for managing the life changing scripts returned from our learners, preparing them for physical or digital assessment.

As Multi-Skilled Engineer you will have lots of room for innovation as you will also have responsibility for recommending and implementing continuous improvement ideas on a wide range of complex counting, packing, sorting, and material conveying equipment.

Maintenance activities:

• Deliver periodic and condition based preventive maintenance ensuring high levels of equipment reliability and maximising efficiency
• Ensure maintenance records are maintained accurately on CMMS system
• Conduct 1^st level reactive service and repair work, diagnosing issues in a prompt and efficient manner
• Contribute to the design and continuous improvement of overall maintenance schedule and strategy

Other duties:

• Provide engineering expertise in the design and delivery of continuous improvements to all electro-mechanical equipment
• Responsible for ensuring appropriate technical spare parts and consumables are available
• Undertake risk assessment for own and managed activities and perform safety assessment of electro-mechanical equipment to ensure highest levels of safety are achieved

About you

You will be a qualified electrical technician with a good all-round knowledge and practical competence in mechanics/pneumatics/hydraulics. You will have the ability to understand PLC systems for fault finding purposes and preferably you will have the required skills to create/modify simple software programs.

You will be qualified to at least an ONC/HNC or equivalent standard in Engineering with complimentary Health and Safety experience and IOSH training/certification.

In addition, it would be desirable to hold the Level 3 Award in the Requirements for Electrical Installations BS7671:2018 (2382), but training will be provided for an applicant with suitable qualifications/aptitude (above) and the ability to pass the examination requirements.

Please review the Job Description for a full insight into requirements for this role.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Sunday 4^th February 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place the week commencing 12^th February 2024

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.