Heavy Plant Fitter

TN United Kingdom; South Ockendon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in plant and transport solutions is seeking a dedicated Heavy Plant Maintenance Technician. This role involves ensuring the availability and standards of plant equipment while adhering to safety and maintenance schedules. With over 50 years of expertise, the company values continuous improvement and proactive communication within the team. Join a forward-thinking organization that offers generous holiday allowances, ongoing training, and opportunities for career development. If you have a strong maintenance background and a passion for heavy machinery, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Full PPE provided

Generous holiday allowance

Full ongoing training/upskilling

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong maintenance background with excellent understanding of heavy plant machinery.
• Experience with CAT, JCB, and Hitachi Machines preferred.

Responsibilities

• Completion of planned, preventative and corrective maintenance activities.
• Maintain records of work completed and support processes.
• Adhere to all safety-related documentation for maintenance activities.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Fault Diagnosis

General servicing and defect repair

Education

NVQ Level 3 Plant Maintenance

CSCS Gold

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

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Explore Plant and Transport Solutions are a FORS Gold accredited specialist supplier of Transport and Plant Hire services to a wide range of industries including construction, rail and aerospace.

We strive to be the industry leader and deliver best in class levels of safety, service, and efficiency. Our Transport division combines over 50 years of construction logistics and haulage expertise, and our Plant division boasts one of the largest, most diverse and modern ranges of plant equipment, small tools, formwork and falsework systems.

The Vacancy

Working as part of our Heavy Plant Maintenance Team to support the depot by improving availability and plant standards and helping achieve our Health, Safety and environmental initiatives. Ensuring maintenance schedules are adhered to and delivered in a safe and professional manner.

Main Responsibilities

• Completion of planned, preventative and corrective maintenance activities.
• Maintain records of work completed and support processes.
• Delivery of continuous improvement projects/actions.
• Adhere to all safety-related documentation (Safe Systems of Work, Visual Task Sheets & Risk Assessments/Permits to work etc) for all maintenance activities.
• Ensure safety related documentation (Risk Assessments/Permits to work etc.) for all maintenance work is completed where required.
• Strong & Proactive communication with the site team – acting as the face of Explore Plant Hire.
• Support management with root cause problem solving exercises.

Skills/Knowledge

Strong maintenance background with excellent understanding of heavy plant machinery ranging from excavators, telehandlers, dumpers & rollers etc. (OEM understanding for CAT, JCB and Hitachi Machines preferred.)

Key Areas:

• Electrical fault finding
• Fault Diagnosis
• General servicing and defect repair

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 Plant Maintenance /time served or equivalent.
• CSCS Gold.
• Rope Trained (Preferred)
• Full UK Driving Licence (Preferred)

What we offer

• Full PPE provided
• Generous holiday allowance plus statutory bank holiday and service-related increase
• Full ongoing training/upskilling
• Career development and the opportunity for internal progression

This is a permanent position, subject to a successful probation period

Please be advised we reserve the right to close the advert early.