Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician
Weekend Nights
Automotive
Birmingham
£48,678
Your new company
Everything starts with passion for our client. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and to bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a team into a strong unit where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work are united that we can shape the future together. Whatever your heart's desire - with our client, you will find a wide range of departments and disciplines across the world where you can share your professional passion with us.

Your new role
* As the Maintenance Technician your main responsibilities will include ensuring the effective technical use of a variety of maintenance principles ensuring the efficiency and technical availability of the facility is continuously maintained. You will also provide hands on technical support to resolve any quality, efficiency and complex problems.
* You will be responsible for demonstrating competence in fault finding on Electrical systems, interrogate electrical schematics and cable references. You will also demonstrate mechanical understanding for fault diagnosis, set up and referencing and understanding of gauge systems and their maintenance.
* You will ensure customer quality and reduced equipment downtime by proactively identifying potential malfunctions before they occur and remedying them. Your aim will be to minimise impact on production demand and manage and reduce all non-conforming materials.
* You will identify and rectify any fault occurrences with machinery, equipment and processes in the area in a reactive manner to ensure all problem resolution activities are completed in a timely manner with minimal impact ensuring maintenance and facility target achievement.
* Use Health and Safety systems and equipment to record breakdowns, complete material searching and warranty returns process.

What you'll need to succeed
* Qualified to NVQ 3 or equivalent in an electrical discipline.
* Minimum of Technical apprenticeship in an Electrical or Electrical and Mechanical discipline.
* Ideally experienced in an automotive manufacturing environment.
* Basic Mechanical knowledge and preferable knowledge with high volume production machinery.
* A familiarity with Machinery, Technical / Electrical / Mechanical systems as well as PSS and SAP data recording is preferable.

What you'll get in return
Competitive Salary of £48,678
Exceptional range of benefits including, pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, work-life balance and family- friendly policies, subsidised canteen, ample onsite parking.

What you need to do now
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