Maintenance Technician

Job Description:

Reliability Maintenance Technician (Mechanical)

Location: Rugby, Warwickshire

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8-4.30pm (3.30pm Friday finish)

Salary: Up to £45,195k + excellent benefits

Project Partners are now recruiting for a Reliability Maintenance Technician to come and join a well established and hard working team based in Rugby, Warwickshire.

Are you ready for a new challenge?

The purpose of the role is to assist the Conformance & Reliability Supervisor in providing a detailed programme of all predictive and preventive maintenance techniques to support all business and statutory requirements with the aim of increasing equipment reliability whilst meeting safety, health, environment, production, quality, and financial targets.

Job Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of a physical environment at Rugby, Kensworth & Southam through building safety into all predictive and preventative maintenance processes and procedures leading to zero harm to employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Planning and delivering a cultural environment so that the Reliability team look after themselves and other colleagues and contractors and suffer zero harm.
• Contribute as a member of the reliability maintenance team and aid in formulating the plants maintenance strategies.
• Develop and maintain short and long term predictive and preventative maintenance plans taking into account changes in the internal (plant) and external environment
• React to unforeseen events to optimize plant performance on a day-to-day basis.
• Undertake / assist in repairs which have been highlighted using reliability techniques (Vibration / Oil analysis etc.)
• Produce timely reports and analysis for the maintenance management team to assist decision making.
• Support the annual plant shutdown so that plant safety and efficiency is optimized.
• Awareness of budget constraints and offer cost effective solutions to plant reliability issues.
• Execute the delivery of small Capital projects, ensuring these are executed in accordance with the budgets available.
• Undertake predictive / preventative routines to high standard to ensure equipment performance and submit documentation for archive.
• Develop a strong long term business relationship with the area coordinators.

Candidate Attributes Required:

• A good understanding and passion for condition monitoring or reliability maintenance principles (predictive and preventative maintenance); vibration analysis, tribology, thermography, ultrasound, NDT.
• Open minded person that is able to look at problems holistically. The job role will require you to collect machine data using different technologies mainly, then interpret that data to understand when a machine is failing, recommend and carry out repairs. In essence close out the loop, from identifying faults and fixing faults.

Experience / Qualifications Required:

• Understanding of Health and Safety practices in an engineering environment (which regulations to follow, keeping safe)
• NVQ level 3 in mechanical engineering (happy if they have a NVQ level 3 in any other type of engineering but have worked with mechanical machines before) or time served apprenticeship
• Worked in heavy engineering industry in the past, not afraid to get dirty.

Benefits:

• Enhanced holiday entitlement (based on Length of Service)
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Discount Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Family rights policies
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice.
• Access to our Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Training and development opportunities