At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and optimise plant equipment while ensuring safety and quality standards.
- Company: Award-winning manufacturing business with a strong focus on growth and development.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonuses, life assurance, and overtime opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible shift patterns with excellent career progression potential.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and advance your career in a thriving industry.
- Qualifications: Mechanical engineering qualification and hands-on maintenance skills required.
Our client is a world class, award winning, long established and growing manufacturing business, with strong and sustained investment in people, capital and plant. Due to continued growth, they are recruiting a Mechanically Biased Maintenance Technician (Experienced or Junior). Reporting to the Engineering and Maintenance Manager, through the Maintenance Supervisors. The Mechanically Bias Maintenance Technician will work as part of an established shift team, maintaining all plant & equipment and helping to ensure that Health, Safety, Quality, Environmental, Energy and Production requirements are met. This is an exciting opportunity and applications will be welcome from either experienced maintenance technicians or qualified, but less experienced technicians/engineers seeking an excellent career development opportunity.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Support production activities to minimise equipment breakdown and optimize production efficiencies
- Proactively maintain plant and equipment to achieve optimum plant and process capability
- Undertake preventative & predictive maintenance tasks as defined and to the agreed schedule
- Support in the maintenance of building and plant services
- Assist the Engineers with equipment design and operation modifications
- Review the PMs being carried out and suggest improvements to the system.
- Identify and address / participate in continuous improvement opportunities / Suggest and carry out project work as required
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:
ESSENTIAL:
- Qualified to a minimum of ONC Level or similar in Engineering - Time served/apprenticed)
- Multi skilled with a mechanical bias
- Hands-on mechanical maintenance, repair, and overhaul skills
- Detailed knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic equipment
- Strong competency in pipe fitting
- Experience or exposure to industrial steam boilers and steam systems
- Basic electrical knowledge (e.g., safe isolation, basic component swapping)
- Ability to work unsupervised under own initiative / Able to work effectively to deadlines / Self-motivated and enthusiastic / Available for overtime as required for the needs of the business / IT literate / Competent with All Microsoft software.
DESIRABLE:
- HND/HNC would be advantageous, but not essential
- Experience with welding and fabrication
- Experience using manual machining equipment (lathes, mills, etc.)
- Knowledge of Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
- Boilers / Steam management / Chillers
- Forklift, Height Access (MEWP) and Lifting Equipment
- Polymer processing, Extrusion, or Injection Moulding Processes
- Understanding of Total Preventative and Reactive Maintenance Systems
- Familiarity with Lean / 5S / Kaizen manufacturing techniques
Details of Packages: £50,000 to £54,000 PA (Depending on Experience) + Bonus + Benefits + OT + Life assurance / 2 shift position (12 hrs) - (Working approx. 7 out of every 14 days) - Hours 06.30 - 18.30, 18.30 - 06.30 (2 WKS Days / 2 WKS Nights)
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