Operator Maintainer (Mechanical)

Looking for a hands-on role where you can fully utilise your talents and mechanical expertise? This opportunity could be yours! We’re welcoming 4 Operator Maintainers to run our state of the art tissue converting machinery, maximising uptime, identifying any faults, and rectifying interruptions/defects efficiently. With your operational background, you will be familiar with principles including 5S, TPM and Kaizen, and in turn, improving efficiency and sharing best practice with colleagues. About the Role As Operator Maintainer, your talents in mechanical, maintenance, and production will be fully utilised. Production and CI: You will operate an impressive range of tissue/paper converting machines, perform quality checks and respond to product defects. Alongside your role in machine setup, optimisation, changeover, and troubleshooting processes, your colleagues will benefit from your mentoring in these areas. We\’re all about continuous improvement and forward thinking, and we\’ll value your input on new machine design, installation, and commissioning, as well as product development. You will also support operator upskilling, and cross-functional development. Ensuring we\’re efficient and sustainable, you will support cost control, waste reduction, and maintaining compliance with ISO9001 (QMS). Maintenance: You will have the opportunity to implement cleaning, lubrication and preventative maintenance strategies. We\’ll rely on your expertise in troubleshooting issues to root cause, and implementing long-term solutions. To manage maintenance tasks and improvement projects, you\’ll be using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and other planning tools. Please be mindful that this working environment can encounter high temperatures, especially during hot spells of weather, and you will come across dust from the tissue fibres, which is common in a Converting setting. Nonetheless, we have put measures in place to provide a safe working space, and we are committed to zero harm. Benefits Company pension Life assurance Free company products Free on-site parking Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service Free early access to pay scheme Salary sacrifice schemes Employee referral scheme Requirements What we need from you: You will be mechanically-minded with relevant skills, able to read and interpret engineer drawings, and take a problem-solving approach. We need you to be focused on continuous improvement and ongoing development, regarding production, maintenance, and our talented colleagues. You\’ll be fully qualified in NVQ Level 3 or 4, or you\’ll have attained a HNC/HND in Mechanical Maintenance You will be conducting equipment guarding and lifting checks, so we\’ll need you to be safety conscious and a critical thinker. If you have completed a fully indentured (Mechanical and Electrical) apprenticeship with relevant role experience, we want to hear from you! It would be a bonus if you have proven experience implementing best practice Business Improvement tools such as TPM, Lean, 5S, Kaizen, etc