Multi Skilled Engineer

Job Title: Multi-Skilled Engineer

Salary: £35,400 - £44,000

Location: Duxford; Cambridge

Contract: Permanent; Full Time - 35 hours per week

Are you a motivated and skilled engineer looking for a rewarding new opportunity? We are currently seeking a Multi-Skilled Engineer to deliver excellence in 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 note that this position is full time, based on-site at our offices in Duxford, Cambridge. Some travel between sites is also required necessitating a valid driver's license.

If you are shortlisted for an interview, the formal process will be conducted on site, in person. A core part of the selection process requires you to complete a series of practical tasks & assessments.

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:

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

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications and interview on an ongoing basis, with an extended closing date for all applications being 20th December 2024. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested in this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

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

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

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 it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.

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.