Job Title
Maintenance Technician
Location
Thames and Plaistow Sites
Reports To
Maintenance Supervisor or Manager
Shift
Mon-Fri: 1 week days, 1 week afternoons, 1 week nights
Salary
£55,700 + 24.3% shift allowance: £69,235
Position Scope
Provision of an effective maintenance service to all plant/equipment used within the refining and packing areas, with emphasis on improving plant availability & reliability.
Detailed Roles & Responsibilities
- Carry out plant isolations.
- Maintenance responsibility for all mechanical, electrical and electronic systems employed within the Process, Packing, Utilities and Jetty sections.
- Carry out reactive maintenance when required by plant priorities.
- Progress to agreed maintenance plans.
- Plan, schedule & agree daily/weekly workload with the Area Maintenance Leader, incorporating Preventative, Predictive and improvement activities.
- Plan plant insurance inspections liaising with the insurance inspector when required.
- Complete plant improvement projects as time allows.
- Supervise maintenance activities optimizing available on site resources and contractors to ensure expedient, high quality repairs, servicing and improvement projects.
- Administer and review SAP maintenance system for budgeting, historical trend & reliability analysis, and in order to maintain accurate SAP inventories.
- Undertake detailed RCA on component failures, generating and implementing modifications & improvements to address reliability and performance issues within the plant.
- Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects.
- Participate in capital projects at all stages of implementation through to commissioning including pre-delivery inspections & installation of new plant for area of responsibility.
- Meet with suppliers or potential suppliers and carry out audits/visits to suppliers’ premises when required.
- Mentor, train and advise on engineering practices and Maintenance issues at all levels.
- Plant reliability measured in up time, OEE & lost opportunity.
Essential Work Experiences
- Comparable experience of maintenance within an automated continuous process environment, which may include PLC and/or HT systems.
- Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes.
Essential Education Requirements
- Preferably an HNC/NVQ 4 in an engineering discipline, at least BTEC/ONC in relevant discipline.
