Mechanical Maintenance Technician in Blackburn

At Mergon, we mould ideas for a sustainable future. We work with leading brands like Tesla, BMW, Xerox and Abbott to design, manufacture and deliver sustainable products for the vehicles and equipment of the future. We care deeply about our colleagues, customers and our community and we have a curiosity that constantly pushes us to innovate and improve. We are competent, capable, and we invest in our people and in our processes to ensure we continue to grow and do our best work every day.

The Role:

Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Hours of Work: 12 hours shifts, Panama shift pattern, day shift only (can also be night shift only if preferred)

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and repairing blow and injection moulding machines, problem solving and resolving hydraulic faults.
• Providing technical support on the machines, supporting the shift leader with machine setups, and helping improve cycle times.
• Carrying out regular quality checks, proactively participating in improving Health & Safety within the organisation, and generating and carrying out engineering improvement projects.
• Using workshop equipment such as lathes, welders, and grinders. Experience of this would be desirable, however, not essential as training can be provided.

To be successful in this role:

• Mechanically biased, ideally with experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in hydraulic fault finding and reading hydraulic drawings.
• Experience with pneumatics.
• Good process understanding and awareness, and can explain in detail how you approach fault finding.
• Experience of using workshop equipment such as lathes, welders and grinders (desirable, however, training can be provided).
• A proactive, can-do attitude and willingness to learn.

KPIs/Success within the first year:

• Have a good operational understanding of all the blow moulding and injection moulding machines.
• A good knowledge of the plastics process and be able to setup jobs on the machines.
• The capabilities to fault find and repair faults.
• Show your fault finding and repair processes.
• Completion of training requirements, including; lifting & slinging, FLT licence, and robotics training.

Benefits:

• Salary up to £46,800 per annum dependant on experience.
• Option to join the private healthcare scheme.
• Full Christmas and New Year shut down.
• Free on-site car park.
• Canteen facilities, including hot drinks.
• Employee Assistance Programme (Wellbeing platform).
• Company Wellbeing & Events programme (such as summer BBQ’s, free annual health checks, pie days and much more).
• Career growth and Learning & Development opportunities.

Equality and Diversity: Mergon is committed to the principle of equal opportunities in employment, and to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, colour, nationality, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, ethnic and national origin, disability, or gender reassignment.

Safer Recruitment: Mergon is committed to promotion welfare of young people and vulnerable adults. The successful applicant will be required to provide proof of rights to work in the UK.