Maintenance Technician – Mechanical

Title of Supervisor – Engineering Manager

Title of next level Supervisor – Head of Engineering & Maintenance

Grade – 9

Shift – 21’s

Hours – 42



Job Summary

Responsible for the mechanical engineering maintenance activities within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment.
Providing a proactive service which contributes towards reducing downtime, improving plant performance and reliability using
preventative and predictive maintenance methods and techniques.
You will be highly motivated, with a ‘can do’ attitude towards your work, as well as having a degree of flexibility to help meet
business needs and market demands.
You will be a major exponent of Health and safety practices, with a strong focus towards work quality and plant standards.


Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out both re-active and pro-active maintenance tasks, including VIM, VAR and ESR furnaces.

• You will be required to understand mechanical systems and be able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately.

• Take part in the development, creation and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machine availability.

• Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS (Pirana), as well as using the system to assist with any fault diagnosis.

• Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews.

• Identify/specify and order critical parts using the companies Ecrib system.

• Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements.

• Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary.

• Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required.

• Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives are achieved.

• To participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge.

• Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge and experience.

• Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments and work.

• Adhere to standard safe practices and procedures, environmental and legislative requirements


Skills Experience and Qualifications

Desirable

• A relevant vocational qualification e.g. NVQ,ONC, HNC, HND, C&G or an appropriate apprenticeship. Employees without these qualifications but who can demonstrate relevant industrial knowledge and experience will be considered.

• Some electrical experience/qualification or the willingness to undertake electrical cross skilling training.

• IOSH qualified.

• Experience of furnace mechanics and their control system.

• Experience of furnace vacuum systems or vacuum technologies.


Demonstrable

• Experience within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment, although applicants from other industries would also be considered.

• Good fault finding and problem-solving skills essential – mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic systems.

• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.

• PC literate.

• Good standard of numeracy and literacy.

• Exemplary timekeeping and attendance.

• Demonstrate the ability to work as an individual and as part of a team.

• Ability to direct and influence others without having line management accountability.


Qualities & Attributes

• Ability to work within a team and share knowledge.

• Ability to communicate effectively and relate to people at all levels of the organisation.

• Degree of flexibility as required to meet business needs and market demands.

• Participate in improvement activities and demonstrate previous involvement.

• Personal discipline to apply the requirements and accepted standards.

• Self-motivated, Pro-active and reliable.

• Work accurately & diligently with high level of attention to detail.