Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Chester
Salary: £50,000-£55,000 + Benefits
Shift Pattern: Monday to Friday - Double Days (06:00-14:00 / 14:00-22:00)
Job Type: Permanent
The Company
My client operates within a heavy engineering environment, offering an excellent opportunity for an experienced Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team.
The business operates a complex industrial facility where equipment reliability, planned maintenance and continuous improvement are essential to maintaining safe and efficient operations. This is an opportunity to work within a technically challenging environment, supporting plant performance, equipment availability and ongoing engineering projects.
The Role
As a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, fault-finding and repairing a wide range of mechanical and electrical plant equipment. You will play a key role in maximising equipment reliability, minimising downtime and ensuring all maintenance activities are completed safely and efficiently.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out fault-finding, maintenance and repair of mechanical and electrical plant equipment.
- Undertaking planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to maximise equipment reliability and availability.
- Responding to equipment breakdowns, diagnosing faults and implementing effective solutions to minimise downtime.
- Working in accordance with established maintenance procedures, engineering standards and best practices.
- Supporting plant development, engineering projects, installation and commissioning activities where required.
- Maintaining accurate maintenance records and asset information using a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).
- Working with engineering drawings, schematics and P&IDs to diagnose faults and support maintenance activities.
- Liaising with external contractors and suppliers, overseeing maintenance and repair work and ensuring safe working practices.
- Supporting project commissioning activities and ensuring the appropriate engineering documentation is in place.
- Assisting with outage planning, scheduling and coordination of preparatory maintenance work.
- Identifying equipment defects, reporting issues and recommending improvements to enhance reliability and performance.
- Supporting the management of change process by identifying and assessing proposed engineering modifications.
- Working in accordance with Permit-to-Work procedures and site safety rules, including the safe supervision of contractors.
- Conducting safety compliance inspections and ensuring maintenance equipment is inspected and defects are reported.
- Maintaining high standards of housekeeping throughout the workshop and wider facility.
- Reporting unsafe acts and conditions and assisting with incident investigations when required.
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the business to improve plant performance and operational efficiency.
- Ensuring all work complies with relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.
The Successful Applicant
To be considered for this Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer position, you should have the following:
- A recognised engineering apprenticeship or equivalent structured engineering training.
- An ONC, City & Guilds, NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent engineering experience.
- Proven experience in the maintenance and repair of a broad range of mechanical systems, including rotating equipment.
- Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills within an industrial or heavy engineering environment.
- Practical knowledge of conveyors, chain drives, hydraulic systems and pneumatic equipment.
- Experience working with Permit-to-Work systems and following safe systems of work.
- The ability to interpret engineering drawings and P&IDs.
- A proactive approach to preventative maintenance, breakdown reduction and continuous improvement.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively as part of an engineering team.
- Experience supporting plant mobilisation or commissioning would be advantageous but is not essential.
What's on Offer?
- Salary of £50,000-£55,000 per annum.
- Private medical insurance.
- 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Performance-related bonus of up to 12%, based on plant and individual performance.
- Pension scheme with matched contributions of up to 5%.
- Permanent employment within a technically challenging heavy engineering environment.
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