CAREERS WITH OLMEC

We are currently looking to recruit for the following positions…

Senior Control Systems Engineer

Manufacturing Planner

Senior Control Systems Engineer

As a controls engineer at Olmec you will take your system designs from paper through to fully living and breathing automated solutions – immense job satisfaction goes with the territory.

Job Purpose

To take a leading role within the controls team developing high quality, fully automated machinery incorporating the latest machine vision and automation technologies.  The position requires involvement from project inception through to completion, ensuring conformance with customer specification, regulatory compliance and good engineering practice.  

The role offers exposure to a wide variety of industries including Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Automotive and Food & beverage.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Design, development and testing of innovative inspection and product handling machines including design of potential solutions, developing new machinery, modifying existing equipment, completing feasibility studies

• Involved in all project lifecycle activities, including fault finding, feasibility testing and customer demonstrations, the preparation of design specifications and reports, programming, project execution, testing, installation and commissioning

• Develop and build prototypes and run tests to measure their level of function

• Write and implement PLC, HMI and drive system software programs covering a wide range of machine functions

• Provide both onsite and remote support to existing and new customer systems

• Work with Project Management to ensure projects are carried out in accordance with good manufacturing practice safety guidelines and current legislation, and meet timescales and design requirements

• Maintain project records, attend regular team meetings to provide progress reports and strategize on next steps

• Liaise with third parties such as component manufacturers, sub-contractors, suppliers, and customers to solve complex problems and deliver projects within agreed deadlines and budgets

• Generate and review electrical documentation for testing, manual compilation and training purposes

• Attend training and relevant conferences and develop professional knowledge

• Provide mentoring and training to junior members of the team 

• Suggest ways of working within the controls function to help the business develop and grow

• Form co-operative and respectful working relationships with colleagues 

KEY SKILLS

·       Minimum degree qualification in engineering plus evidence of relevant industrial experience (pharma, med device, automotive, fmcg)

·       Proven in the automation field with experience of high speed, complex and brand-new systems

·       Innovative and investigative approach to engineering coupled with the confidence to challenge conventional thinking

·       High level of experience in PLC programming & HMI programming (Beckhof, Rockwell, Omron, Allen Bradley)

• Clear communicator with the ability to form strong relationships with colleagues

• Able to develop trust and motivate others

• An ability to act as a role model and lead by example

• Rigorous documentation skills

• Ability to plan and work to tight deadlines

Manufacturing Planner

Job Purpose

As the Manufacturing Planner at Olmec you will assume overall responsibility for the supply chain within Olmec and ultimately to our customers.   You will develop production schedules which you will live and breathe on a daily, weekly and project by project basis; in order to ensure that all customer deadlines are met.

This is a full-time, on-site role within our Projects Team which offers exposure to a wide variety of industries including Pharmaceutical & Healthcare, Automotive and Food & beverage.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

·       Collaboratively plan and schedule production and assembly of components to meet customer deadlines within the MRP system (Factory Master)

·       Responsible for creating works orders and their timely planning 

·        Management of raw material stock daily & checking purchased items delivery times do not impact the projects, sourcing and purchasing alternative parts as necessary 

·       Updating plans for BOM (Bill of Material) releases and importing BOMs 

·       Creation of manufacturing routings, and post manufacture updates to ensure accurate planned operation timings v actual 

·       Check daily shop floor data capture information is accurate 

·       Check CNC schedule adherence daily, liaise with the team on any issues and adjust plans to include spares for customers, reworks, and priorities 

·       Support CNC or build team in daily production operations, as required, to meet targets 

·       Process finished CNC manufactured parts to the next operation and received goods within the MRP system and workplace 

·       Responsible for kitting of assembly components, ensuring weekly and daily kits are complete and available in line with plans 

·       Update weekly the main project plans for CNC manufactured parts, workshop assemblies and delivery of purchased items 

·       Highlight and escalate any issues which could impact the production plan and proactively seek an appropriate resolution 

• Attend training and relevant conferences and develop professional knowledge

• Provide mentoring and training to members of the team

• Form co-operative and respectful working relationships with colleagues 

KEY SKILLS

·       Minimum 5 years’ experience of production and/or CNC environments, in a planning role

·       Strong data analytical skills 

·       Advanced user of MRP software packages such as FactoryMaster and Microsoft Project and Excel

• Clear communicator with the ability to form strong relationships with colleagues and deliver news appropriately whether good or bad

• Able to develop trust and motivate others

• Lives and breathes the supply chain and is passionate about meeting manufacturing deadlines

• Rigorous documentation skills, knowledge of ISO 9001 an advantage

• Able to offer solutions to overcome problems

If you would like to apply for either of these roles, please send your CV in the first instance to sharon.wilson@olmec-uk.com