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Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician (MTECH01) Somerset, England

Salary: GBP30000 - GBP31000 per annum + benefits

Day-based with Reactive & Preventative Maintenance duties and development project tasks of a mechanical nature, to maintain effective & efficient continuity of product supply.

 Responsibilities:

  • Perform all duties in accordance with site safety requirements and be continuously attentive to the safety of others
  • Respond individually and with the shift-based response team to planned and unplanned equipment breakdowns and change-overs
  • Timely and effective response to project tasks set by the Engineering Manager and the Operations Project Development Manager
  • Maintain and promote GMP requirements during all activities
  • Data entry maintenance of SHIRE (Computerised Maintenance Management System), enabling daily update of system
  • With colleagues of the maintenance team, responsible for identifying risks to site mechanical safety.
  • Share best practice maintenance methods amongst the engineering and operations team which consider safety, quality and performance.
  • Where possible, identify and promote opportunities for continuous improvement within maintenance activities
  • Communication outwards of progress on time-dependant projects
  • Participation in weekly engineering update meetings, reviewing project status, equipment failure trends and preventative maintenance development
  • Apprentice trained mechanical engineer
  • Experienced shift engineer (+5yrs) in a FMCG manufacturing environment
  • High competence in workshop skills, including relevant welding capability
Skills:
  • Promotes safe working, ability to risk assess activities to consider the safety of themselves and those around them (H&S qualification beneficial)

You:

  • Comfortable working on own initiative, tenacious with strong ability to prioritise multiple tasks, competing deadlines and demands for work
  • Extremely organised and logical with an open and analytical approach to problem solving and the ability to challenge the status-quo
  • Strong communication skills, including an appetite and ability to train others
  • Team player, with the capability to create, maintain and enhance positive and open working relationships
  • Exemplary personal principles around honesty, time-keeping, and finished work standards
  • High level of attention to detail and ability to communicate with data and facts
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