Maintenance Technician

Salary: £32,000-£38,000 per annum.

Hours:

Day Shift: 12-hour shifts. 4 days on, 4 days off. May vary between 6am-6pm & 7am-7pm.

or

Night Shift: 12-hour shifts. 4 days on, 3 days off. May vary between 6pm-6am & 7pm-7am.

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join the maintenance team of our client! The role will include:

• Ensuring optimum performance of the manufacturing plants and equipment at best value cost and effective use of resource.
• Attaining the Maintenance standards across the site by providing functional support and expertise.
• Positively affecting plant reliability through practical intervention on improvement activities, maintenance procedures on and plant stoppages.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Maintenance focused activities in support of manufacturing plant and equipment performance KPI’s.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects.
• Support sites technical issue resolution and completion of improvement actions through good engineering practices and guidance.
• Support site maintenance team’s development and coach individuals towards improved performance and achievement, thereby assisting Business Units to achieving targets and key objectives.
• Deliver maintenance KPI’s to ensure visibility of supply engineering performance and required improvement for site. Profit through efficiency improvements and risk management being key drivers.
• Identify and share best practice and contribute to raising awareness, improving performance, and transitioning to a “pro-active” maintenance culture.
• Ensure high standards of engineering workmanship across the site.
• Contribute to the development of existing and new standards for key items of equipment and facilities.
• Lead high standards of safety practices across the business.

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a background involving maintenance of a busy production line involving mechanical machinery.  The candidate will enjoy challenging, problem-solving roles and be ideally suited to a fast-paced environment.  The candidate should have good interpersonal skills and ability to multi-task.

Full mechanical / engineering apprenticeship and previous experience in a similar role is required.

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