Maintenance Technician

Job description

Salary £40,000

Main purpose of job:

Organise and manage the day to day/weekly/monthly site maintenance function, including site and contractors staff, liaising with operations staff to ensure a high level of service.
Ensure compliance is maintained due to legislation and directives from outside bodies (EA, HSE etc.) as well as company imposed compliances i.e. for insurance purposes.

The role

Duties/Responsibilities:

* Day to day/ weekly/monthly organisation and supervision of a mixed skill team, plus contract staff, to achieve an efficient maintenance function, while adhering to all relevant legislation.
* Assessment of plant defects, specifying remedial action, and proposal of modifications where appropriate, to maintain plant reliability and availability.
* Assist in the development of Stores Systems, Management Systems, H&S procedures and the CMMS to improve the organisation of all aspects of the maintenance function.
* Assist in planning and supervision of planned maintenance outages including shutdowns, including specification of work, quality control and co-ordination between all parties involved.
* Assist in working within approved budgets.
* Attend maintenance based HSE site intervention meetings as required.
* Ensure that the maintenance effort is responsive to the overall needs of the business.
* Ensure all fault reporting is completed and acted upon in a timely manner and all reports are filed correctly.
* Ensure all equipment requiring repair/overhaul off site, is dealt with in a timely manner.
* Ensure critical spares stock levels are maintained and that stock checks are carried out on time.
* Carry out hazard and risk assessments for routine and defect maintenance tasks as required.
* Ensure compliance with the company's Quality and Environmental Management System and Health and Safety
* Advise management of any safety concerns.
* Carry out any other duties as requested by Site Management.

The person

Other Essential Skills:

* Able to attend site 'out of hours' to respond to breakdown or emergency situations.
* Capability to Arc and/or MiG weld
* Enthusiastic and competent problem solver with a practical approach to engineering problems.
* PC literate, and capable of learning how to use new software systems.
* Good communication and organizational skills
* Self-motivated, requiring minimal supervision and able to cope with numerous issues simultaneously and capable of prioritising tasks accordingly.
* Abrasive Wheels
* Experience of CMMS systems

Desirable Skills:

* IOSH Managing Safely
* FLT License
* MEWP Licenses