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Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Jeez, i like to think i got a fair job, but once in a while it all goes t1ts up and you really gotta work for your money 
I'm a maintenance engineer in a packing facility with 13 lines, a mulltitude of conveyors, weighing machines, punnet machines etc etc etc...all the kind of stuff you buy your fruit in.
Todays been a bitch
When you've got 10 or 20 people on a line and theres problems with a machine..you've got to get it working ASAP.
2 punneting machines have acted like they're jinxed for the last 2 days...crushing punnets, not cutting the net, not clipping the net, infeed chains are intermittent. Switching from one machine to the other, trying to keep them going...its been a bloomin nightmare.
Eventually, you call time and shut the line down...analyse each problem seperately, make changes, fix worn bits etc etc. 2 hours later, you get it going on test, all looks good, you call the staff back....and it goes t1ts up again
. You fix that problem and it runs for 2 hours till dinner. That gives you time to catch up in other areas.
They come back from dinner...it wont work again
You strip the thing again and find another components broken.
Thankfully, its worked like a dream for the rest of the day.
No proper dinner break, several other machines have played up to a smaller degree... just enough to keep you moving from one problem to another.
Things just began to settle at 3pm, so i went and got a coffee....got a call almost straight away..'i can hear a funny noise'. Made my way back to find a conveyor roller on another line has collapsed. Oh sh1t...drag it to the workshop, belt off, roller out, spend another hour extracting the collapsed bearings, rebuild and drag back to the packhouse.
5pm....i got my first full break (since 7 am this morning)
In my job, you've never seen it all, you never know it all, thats what makes it so interesting. Stressfull at times, but hugey satisfying. So when you open your pack of oranges, or a punnet of appes...spare a thought for a poor stressed engineer that made it all happen
I'm absoluteley shattered tonight..seriously. But to be fair...days like today are rare...thank Christ.
I walked out of the workshop tonight, looked back and it looks like someones thrown a grenade in there. Sod it, it'll wait till monday.
Hows yours been ?
I'm a maintenance engineer in a packing facility with 13 lines, a mulltitude of conveyors, weighing machines, punnet machines etc etc etc...all the kind of stuff you buy your fruit in.
Todays been a bitch
When you've got 10 or 20 people on a line and theres problems with a machine..you've got to get it working ASAP.2 punneting machines have acted like they're jinxed for the last 2 days...crushing punnets, not cutting the net, not clipping the net, infeed chains are intermittent. Switching from one machine to the other, trying to keep them going...its been a bloomin nightmare.
Eventually, you call time and shut the line down...analyse each problem seperately, make changes, fix worn bits etc etc. 2 hours later, you get it going on test, all looks good, you call the staff back....and it goes t1ts up again
. You fix that problem and it runs for 2 hours till dinner. That gives you time to catch up in other areas.They come back from dinner...it wont work again
You strip the thing again and find another components broken.Thankfully, its worked like a dream for the rest of the day.
No proper dinner break, several other machines have played up to a smaller degree... just enough to keep you moving from one problem to another.
Things just began to settle at 3pm, so i went and got a coffee....got a call almost straight away..'i can hear a funny noise'. Made my way back to find a conveyor roller on another line has collapsed. Oh sh1t...drag it to the workshop, belt off, roller out, spend another hour extracting the collapsed bearings, rebuild and drag back to the packhouse.
5pm....i got my first full break (since 7 am this morning)
In my job, you've never seen it all, you never know it all, thats what makes it so interesting. Stressfull at times, but hugey satisfying. So when you open your pack of oranges, or a punnet of appes...spare a thought for a poor stressed engineer that made it all happen
I'm absoluteley shattered tonight..seriously. But to be fair...days like today are rare...thank Christ.
I walked out of the workshop tonight, looked back and it looks like someones thrown a grenade in there. Sod it, it'll wait till monday.
Hows yours been ?
Its funny how everyone thinks that....
