Equipment Maintenance Specialist
// Role Summary
Join Boeing Sheffield as an Equipment Maintenance Specialist on the Night Shift, playing a vital role in maintaining and repairing high-tech CNC machines and production assets to ensure readiness for manufacturing.
// Key Responsibilities
- Own and execute preventative maintenance programs for CNC machines and production equipment.
- Perform complex troubleshooting and repairs on mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical systems.
- Lead root cause analysis and implement corrective actions to prevent equipment failures.
- Manage critical spares inventory and provide technical leadership and training to the maintenance team.
- Coordinate repair activities and improvement projects across various departments and external providers.
- Ensure compliance with site safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
// Role Specification
Role Overview
The Equipment Reliability function at Boeing Sheffield, a Boeing Fabrication site that is part of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), are looking to hire an experienced Equipment Maintenance Specialist. As an Equipment Maintenance Specialist (Night Shift), you will play a crucial role in ensuring the machines are ready for production. You will work as part of a team that is responsible for maintaining and repairing our high-tech CNC machines and various other production and quality assets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preventative Maintenance Program Ownership and Execution: Develop, implement, monitor, and optimize planned preventative maintenance (PM) programs and condition-based inspection schedules for CNC machines and ancillary production equipment. Perform hands-on PM tasks, routine inspections, and corrective maintenance to ensure equipment remains production-ready.
- Complex Troubleshooting and Repairs: Perform advanced diagnosis of mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical faults. Lead complex troubleshooting, disassembly, rebuild, modification, and testing to restore equipment to production-ready condition.
- Machine Alignments & Commissioning: Install, align, calibrate, commission, and upgrade new or modified equipment. Validate performance and ensure compliance with safety and operational standards.
- Root Cause & Corrective Actions: Lead root cause investigations for recurring or high-impact failures. Define, implement, and verify corrective and preventative actions and document findings to prevent recurrence.
- Spares Strategy & Inventory Control: Manage critical spares and inventory, including stock monitoring, replenishment, and recordkeeping.
- Leadership & Mentoring: Provide technical leadership and structured training to maintenance teams. Mentor less experienced technicians and guide repair escalation decisions.
- Cross-functional Coordination: Coordinate complex repair activities and improvement projects with production, engineering, quality, suppliers, and external service providers. Act as a technical point of contact for significant equipment issues.
- Reliability & Continuous Improvement: Lead or champion reliability, capability, and continuous improvement projects. Quantify benefits, document outcomes, and implement sustainable improvements.
- Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure maintenance activities comply with site safety, quality, and regulatory standards. Assess and mitigate operational and safety risks related to equipment.
Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):
- Multi-skilled experience with a strong electrical bias and advanced fault-finding capability across mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and PLC/HMI documentation.
Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):
- Minimum of 7+ years’ post-apprenticeship experience working in a maintenance role on CNC machines in a production environment.
- HNC/HND or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent or Level 3 apprenticeship in Electrical, Mechanical, or Electronic Engineering (or equivalent).
- Significant experience with FANUC and/or Siemens operating systems.
- Experience in fault finding/programming PLCs and HMIs.
- IOSH Managing Safely qualification.
- Experience working in an AS9100 aerospace workplace.
- Experience coordinating with suppliers and engineering teams on equipment upgrades and modifications.
Work Authorisation:
This requisition is for a locally hired position in the UK. Candidates must have current legal authorisation to work immediately in the United Kingdom. Boeing will not attempt to obtain Immigration and labour sponsorship for any applicants.
Relocation:
Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position. Candidates must live in the immediate area, or relocate at their own expense.
Shift:
Night Shift (United Kingdom)