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Explore Plant and Transport Solutions are a FORS Gold accredited specialist supplier of Transport and Plant Hire services to a wide range of industries including construction, rail and aerospace.
We strive to be the industry leader and deliver best in class levels of safety, service, and efficiency. Our Transport division combines over 50 years of construction logistics and haulage expertise, and our Plant division boasts one of the largest, most diverse and modern ranges of plant equipment, small tools, formwork and falsework systems.
The Vacancy
Working as part of our Heavy Plant Maintenance Team to support the depot by improving availability and plant standards and helping achieve our Health, Safety and environmental initiatives. Ensuring maintenance schedules are adhered to and delivered in a safe and professional manner.
Main Responsibilities

• Completion of planned, preventative and corrective maintenance activities.
• Maintain records of work completed and support processes.
• Delivery of continuous improvement projects/actions.
• Adhere to all safety-related documentation (Safe Systems of Work, Visual Task Sheets & Risk Assessments/Permits to work etc) for all maintenance activities.
• Ensure safety related documentation (Risk Assessments/Permits to work etc.) for all maintenance work is completed where required.
• Strong & Proactive communication with the site team – acting as the face of Explore Plant Hire.
• Support management with root cause problem solving exercises.
  

Make sure to apply with all the requested information, as laid out in the job overview below.
Skills/Knowledge
Strong maintenance background with excellent understanding of heavy plant machinery ranging from excavators, telehandlers, dumpers & rollers etc. (OEM understanding for CAT, JCB and Hitachi Machines preferred.)
Key Areas

• Electrical fault finding
• Hydraulics
• Fault Diagnosis
• Pneumatics
• General servicing and defect repair
  

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 Plant Maintenance /time served or equivalent.
• CSCS Gold.
• IPAF / Slinger/Signaller (Preferred)
• Rope Trained (Preferred)
• Full UK Driving Licence (Preferred)
  

What We Offer

• Full PPE provided
• Generous holiday allowance plus statutory bank holiday and service-related increase
• Full ongoing training/upskilling
• Career development and the opportunity for internal progression
  

This is a permanent position, subject to a successful probation period
Please be advised we reserve the right to close the advert early.
The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

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