Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician required for our Sudbury based manufacturing client. In your role as a Manufacturing technician, you will be working as part of the Engineering team to maintain site buildings and plants to a high standard. Reporting directly to the Facilities Manager you will be performing pre-planned and reactive maintenance on the latest generation of specialist machinery, mainly mechanical with some electrical work. Although our client works with specialist equipment, full training will be given to you to understand these machines but you must possess previous maintenance experience gained in large operational buildings as well as have some Electrical, plumbing and minor building works experience and qualifications.

The role

• Maintain the fabric of the building, as well as key plant and systems.
• Ensure that productivity throughout the factory continues with minimal disruption by means of planned maintenance to reduce corrective and reactive maintenance.
• Delivery of planned repair and/or install of existing and new equipment projects.
• Organise and liaise with onsite sub-contractors
• Ensure daily checks and PPM’s are carried out on all key plant, recording information and making necessary corrections where needed.
• Maintain a planned level of spares and materials to minimise the need for unplanned visits to external suppliers.
• Acting expediently on work requests from internal customers via their emails and maintenance log requests.
• Carry out site and equipment safety checks
• Proactively identify site maintenance issues, propose solutions, obtain approval where needed and then implement.

Required Experience

• Must have previous maintenance experience gained in large operational buildings
• Possess mechanical background in gas/steam and have plant room experience.
• Electrical, plumbing and minor building works experience and qualifications is essential

• Previous experience within a manufacturing environment
• Must be confident with hand and power tools and working from height
• Strong problem solving and fault-finding skills.
• Key eye for detail
• Must be IT literate
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Benefits to you

• Competitive salary depending on experience
• Comprehensive induction programme along with full systems training
• Pension scheme
• Profit share bonus
• Excellent career opportunity
• Opportunity to gain further skills
• Sick pay
• Free Parking

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