Care & Maintenance Technician in North Petherton

Are you an experienced maintenance professional who takes pride in keeping critical equipment in top condition? Can you confidently identify defects, coordinate maintenance activities, and ensure critical assets remain in peak condition? Do you want to play a vital role in supporting one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure projects?

At Hinkley Point C, we’re building the first new generation of nuclear power stations in Britain, helping to provide zero-carbon electricity to around six million homes. As a Tier One partner supporting Nuclear New Build, we deliver essential warehousing and transportation services to this landmark project.

Here at GXO, we’re looking for a Care & Maintenance Technician to join our team in Bridgwater to help ensure the safe, compliant and effective maintenance of critical equipment and assets across our warehouse facilities. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a nationally significant project whilst working within a safety-focused, highly regulated environment. This is a full-time, permanent position. You will work Monday to Friday, 07:00 till 15:00.

Pay, benefits and more: We’re looking to offer a salary between £46,000 per annum, and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, life assurance and access to our benefits platform, including retail discounts.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Carry out scheduled care and maintenance activities, ensuring all plant and equipment is maintained in line with supplier requirements and maintenance schedules.
• Host and support contractor visits, inspections, and maintenance activities while ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, procedures, schedules, and long-term quality documentation to support ONR requirements and regulatory compliance.
• Identify, report, and support the resolution of defects, maintenance concerns, and improvement opportunities across warehouse facilities.
• Support asset reviews, monitor performance, track corrective actions, and champion continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Proven engineering or maintenance experience within a large engineering, industrial, manufacturing, logistics, or regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of maintenance practices, engineering standards, risk assessments, method statements, and compliance requirements.
• Experience developing, implementing, or supporting care and maintenance arrangements and activities.
• Strong IT skills with experience using asset management systems and maintaining accurate technical records.
• Full UK driving Licence is essential, as you may be permitted to work across some of our other locations.

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains. GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.