Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Got an interview tomorrow morning, any folk on here Maintenance Engineers?
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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nope. what you going for though?
maintaining what?
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
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Did a CITB test start of this year, got a phone call on Monday asking if I was free for an interview tomorrow morning.
Position is Trainee Maintenance Engineer (Apprenticeship)
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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what will you have to maintain though?
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
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Job description
Complex modern plants depend critically on carefully planned maintenance to avoid expensive shut-downs. Maintenance involves sophisticated computerised project scheduling and management of large teams of specialists under time pressure to complete the job in hand. Maintenance engineers are also responsible for routine maintenance and attend to breakdowns of an engineering plant or equipment.
Maintenance engineers are involved in all stages of manufacturing, from the equipment development phase, where they are involved in working with manufacturers to incorporate efficient maintenance parameters into new equipment or plant. Through the production phase, maintenance engineers actively work to improve useful life of a plant, equipment or manufacturing facility.
Typical work activities
Maintenance engineering plays a vital role in the development and progress of most manufacturing or process industries. Such engineers are involved in working with other professionals to improve production facilities and reduce costly breakdowns. Most maintenance engineers try to work in a way to pre-empt breakdowns by developing strategies to improve overall reliability and safety of plant, personnel and production processes.
Some industries, particularly those within high risk areas such as nuclear, petro-chemical and aviation, will have well developed reliability strategies. In others, such as those within traditional manufacturing, the maintenance engineer will try to move the organisational culture away from simply responding to breakdowns to trying to improve overall reliability. This means employing skills such as negotiation and persuasion as well as training and development of staff, using strategies such as reliability based maintenance (RBM), total productive maintenance (TPM) and other improvement tools.
A maintenance engineer will have to respond to a range of projects including attending breakdowns through to developing plant asset care policies that will mean working closely with suppliers, customers and other departments as well as senior managers. Engineers will sometimes need to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.
Typical work activities include:
designing maintenance strategies, procedures and methods;
diagnosing breakdown problems;
liaising with client departments and customers;
arranging specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings or components;
controlling maintenance tools, stores and equipment;
planning and scheduling of planned and unplanned work;
directing, instructing and supervising maintenance technicians and craftsmen;
monitoring and controlling maintenance costs;
writing maintenance strategies to help with installation and commissioning guidelines
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Just found that on here
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_types_of_jobs/Types_of_Job/p!eipaL?idno=263&state=showocc
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
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looks cool mate.
good luck with the interview.
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GT4Brody
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Registered: 26th Sep 01
Location: south
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I am an electrical engineer, which is really a maintenance engineer, do shift work, maintain the baggage conveyer systems, loading bridges, check in desks etc etc etc at Gatwick Airport, is a great job, only down side is its shift work, but i do alright out of it earnt 37.5 grand last year, not bad for 24 yr old 
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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37.5k? thats decent.
Interview went well, hear back in 2 weeks.
IF i get it they send me to 26 weeks training then do onsite work. After 1st year they may send me offshore etc
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Black Corsa SRi
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Registered: 25th May 02
Location: ---Stockport---- Drives: Pug 206 Roland Garros
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i'm an aircraft maintenance engieer, (avionics) at manchester airport
Maintenance is good, something different every day!
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