Jack Ditchfield

Background

About Jack Ditchfield

I am a Multi skilled Shift/breakdown Engineer at Lipton teas and infusions (previously ekatera tea, previously Unilever) in Trafford park which is a high speed packaging and processing plant. I work on a large variety of different equipment such as product transfer systems, IMA tea bag machines, down line equipment such as glueing machines, check weighers, metal detectors, pick and place machines, case packers and cobot palletisers. I have excellent experience in precision mechanical work from working on the strip down and rebuild of cam/gear box’s and setting them up within highly accurate tolerances. My electrical experience ranges from working with control systems right through to 3 phase supplies. This includes fault finding with the use of electrical drawings and using my electrical testing ability. Qualifications include my 18th edition and a HNC in general engineering at distinction level as well as an NVQ level 3 plus a Btec in engineering. I have also received extensive training on courses such as Siemens Service 1 PLC course, Festo's pneumatic course and Confined space training. I also have a significant amount of experience in both mechanical and electrical maintenance, mobile platform trained and permit trained. I have also had extensive exposure to WCM and kaizen improvements in the vast area of the home care industry and also in the food industry at my current place of work.