Mechanical Maintenance Technician

The Maintenance Technician will be responsible for delivering front line mechanical preventative and corrective maintenance on Water Treatment Plant systems throughout the UK. The role will also include working closely with and supporting projects and other maintenance elements within the business, such as plant equipment upgrades and commissioning of new equipment. The Maintenance Technician will work closely with Site Managers, Project Managers and Site Operators to ensure effective delivery of maintenance/project activities in a timely manner. This role will involve UK wide travel regularly to customer sites.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Visible leadership on HSE issues at all levels both in the client organisation and within NSI O&M.
• Understand the multi-skilled (EMI) maintenance function to complete basic and/or complex maintenance tasks and to work unsupervised with a proactive attitude.
• Pro-active approach to safety, inputting into monthly safety stats and KPIs, and taking an active part in ensuring the team meet its targets.
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with NSI O&M personnel, and sub-contractor staff.
• Development and maintenance of good housekeeping practices.
• Continually look to improve methods and systems.
• Identify faults, evaluate rectification measures and to make initial recommendations, in order to carry out basic and/or complex repairs.
• Interpret advanced technical literature and drawings to affect repairs.
• Display good knowledge of all electronic systems used for maintenance work, i.e. CMMS.
• Utilising plant information, identify any changes in equipment performance and/or potential operational problems, evaluate and make initial recommendations to return plant to its optimum operating condition.
• Attending maintenance related meetings as required providing input as appropriate.
• Working in partnership with the Process Plant Operators.
• Identify and carry out “on-the-job” training of new personnel.
• Flexible and adaptable approach.
• Reporting all PM and emergent works on a weekly basis.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• NVQ / City & Guilds or other qualification in Mechanical Engineering/Technology and/or significant relevant experience.
• Health & safety training.
• Extensive experience of carrying out all aspects of a Mechanical planned maintenance programme.
• Operational and maintenance knowledge of water & effluent treatment plants.
• Experience of working directly with sub-contractors and dealing directly with third parties to arrange / organise tasks.
• To be able to demonstrate through previous work experience, an ability to interpret advanced technical literature and engineering drawings to affect repairs of complex items of plant.
• To be able to demonstrate knowledge of complete cycle of maintenance work from planning stage, to implementation and to completion of tasks.
• Demonstrate the ability to work within a quality system.
• Hard working self-starter/self-motivated able to work on your own with little local support following initial training/induction periods.
• Experience of working in a ‘virtual team’ environment, good IT skills in order to work independently with a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).
• High level problem solving/fault finding skills.
• Ability to read technical drawings, manuals, and technical specifications.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Good interpersonal skills, able to liaise with multiple commercial/technical internal and external contacts.

Working for us means:

• The salary is between £33,500 & £41,500 per year, depending on your professional experience.
• Overtime – x1.5.
• Holidays – 25 days + 8 statutory days.
• Probationary Period – 6 months.
• Pension – Can join immediately or auto enrolled after 3 months - Employee 5% and Employer 5% via salary sacrifice.
• Eligible to join Private Healthcare after successfully completing probation.
• Enrolled in Group Income Protection and Death in Service (4 x basic salary) upon commencement of employment.
• Notice – 1 week during probation, increasing to 1 month thereafter.

Nijhuis Saur Industries UK & Ireland are committed to maintaining Environmental & Social Impact goals:

• To reach Net Zero emissions across our value chain by 2040.
• To continuously meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, accountability, maintaining B-Corp Certification.
• To be a socially responsible company creating a positive impact to all stakeholders including workers, communities, customers, and our planet.

Nijhuis Saur Industries UK & Ireland are an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment in line with the Equality Act 2010.

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