Maintenance Technician (Multi-skilled)

About the role:

The Maintenance Technician role is primarily responsible for ensuring equipment availability to support production processes. This includes executing site-identified Planned Maintenance activities and providing timely reactive responses to technical issues across the site to maximize equipment uptime. The position also contributes to continuous improvement initiatives through root cause analysis, while maintaining the highest standards of health and safety and food quality in all tasks.

Shift pattern: 12-hour shifts, days and nights

Key responsibilities:

Provide an effective emergency response service for breakdowns within the factory - providing immediate and long-term solutions in a timely, safe and cost-effective manner

When undertaking fault finding and diagnostic work, understand and diagnose problems and then implement permanent corrective actions to prevent recurrence

Working with the equipment users to understand clearly the problems to ensure that sustainable remedial solutions can be implemented

Undertaking Planned Preventative routine maintenance across all equipment on the site

Identify continuous improvement opportunities and follow these through to implementation where appropriate

Undertake meaningful handover reports/notes

Proactively involved in undertaking risk assessments

Issue permits to work (including immobilisation certificates) as required.

About you:

Hold an ONC (or equivalent) in a mechanical or electrical engineering discipline and have successfully completed an apprenticeship scheme in that discipline - primary core skill

Hold at least NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in mechanical or electrical discipline as the secondary core skill

Holder of 17th Edition Certificate or equivalent – desirable

Previous experience of working in a maintenance department – preferably within a food manufacturing/processing environment

Knowledge of PLC’s - preferably Siemens

Understand permits to work and lock off procedures

Operational knowledge of and ability to adhere to health and safety legislation and best practice - particularly in COSHH, working at heights, working in confined spaces, risk assessments

Team player and able to work with limited supervision

Effective problem-solving and communication skills (verbal and written)

Computer literate - maintenance software, Microsoft Office programmes - namely Excel.