Electro-Mechanical Fitter

Electro-Mechanical FitterLeading Filling Machinery ManufacturerBased: Nelson, Lancashire£Competitive + benefitsRiggs Autopack is an award-winning UK designer and manufacturer of filling machines and depositors for the food, industrial, chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Established for over 80 years, we are a highly successful business who operate from state-of-the-art facilities in the North of England. Our products and services have gained a superb reputation for assisting customers with their filling of sensitive, delicate and difficult to handle products. Our machines have a reputation second-to-none for quality, accuracy and reliability.Due to an internal promotion, a superb opportunity to work as a fitter in our production team has arisen.Responsibilities of the role comprise:Working on a wide range of equipment, including semi-automatic stand-alone machines and automated filling lines that form part of full processing plants.Applying your mechanical and electrical skills in the assembly of both new and existing designs to engineering drawings and to sound engineering practice and machinery codes.Working closely with the production management and design functions to feedback on your findings from machine builds – especially those of bespoke nature.Providing occasional customer training and support at site.As a lead fitter, you will be responsible for the overall build quality of our products. You will ideally be an apprentice trained engineer, qualified to minimum ONC level, or equivalent, with a multi-skilled, electrically biased background that includes experience of supporting automated / PLC controlled / pneumatic equipment.You will also be familiar with pneumatic control systems, air cylinders and air actuated valves, mechanical valves, pumps, small pipework assemblies, conveyors and materials handling systems, motors, drives and controls and associated panel wiring and cabling.You should possess a high level of communication skills, an innate attention to detail and an enthusiasm for delivering high quality machinery to pre-determined production timescales.All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence