Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias)

Baltic Recruitment Limited; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 43,000; Part time

Job summary

Baltic Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias) for a client in Pontypool. The role operates on a 3-shift pattern (Day, Back, Night) Monday–Friday, reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor.

Temp to perm with strong emphasis on safety, reliability and cost control. The ideal candidate has an engineering apprenticeship or HNC, strong OEE knowledge, and hands-on electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic fault finding experience.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship or HNC in engineering is essential.
• Must understand OEE and its components and calculation.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Able to manage workload to meet deadlines and make data-driven decisions.
• Experience with electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic fault finding.

Responsibilities

• Promote health and safety in all maintenance activities and lead the team.
• Coach and develop technicians and apprentices through training.
• Ensure right-first-time quality in machining and assembly areas.
• Analyse OEE data, drive improvements and maintain site performance.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Hydraulic fault finding

Pneumatic fault finding

OEE awareness

Education

Apprenticeship or HNC in engineering

HNC/HND in Mechanical engineering

Tools

CMMS (Agility)

CMMS (SAP)

Siemens 840D

Robotics (Staubli/ABB/UR)

Job description

Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias)

Industry

Automotive & Manufacturing

Reference

SM/MAINTECHMECH_1793628470

Salary

£37938.11 - £43461.90 per annum

Job Type

Temporary

Job Location

Pontypool , Torfaen

Description

Baltic Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Temp to Perm Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias) for a client located in Pontypool. This role is working on a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday – Friday. Reporting into the Maintenance Supervisor.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias) Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Safety
  • To promote health and safety in all aspects of engineering through effective leadership.
  • Develop a safety culture within the maintenance team to improve safety when working
  • Raise near misses and conduct investigations where required.
  • Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in a safe manner and are compliant with all health and safety rules.
• People
  • To actively coach and develop associate Technicians and maintenance Technicians through training and development activities.
  • Support, Coach and develop engineering apprentices where required.
• Quality
  • Support the business in ensuring right first time, every time is achieved from the machining and assembly cells.
  • Ensure the customer is put first in all decisions relating to engineering repairs. Ensuring they are not affected by any work completed.
• Reliability
  • OEE – React and respond to daily OEE issues where Technical support is Required
  • OEE – Analyse and utilise OEE data to identify engineering issues and create improvement plans to resolve in the shortest possible time frame
  • OEE – Take ownership of plant performance in your area of responsibility and strive to ensure it is always improving.
  • Utilise root cause analysis tools and techniques to determine root cause on significant failures and plan, implement and monitor control to resolve.
  • Utilise CMMS system to log time and report counter measures for reactive and planned maintenance activities.
  • Take lead role and Strive to continually improve plant and processes in line with business goals. Utilising performance data to identify areas for improvement and measure success.
  • Support Maintenance team in optimising maintenance strategy for the site and identifying critical spares.
  • Provide technical support where required during planned predictive maintenance activities to ensure all tasks are completed correctly.
• Cost
  • Keep business profitability in mind when using spare parts.
  • Look for improvement opportunities that will reduce costs.
  • Promote energy saving within the department.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Mechanical Bias) Applicants:

Essential:

• An apprenticeship or HNC in engineering.
• Must understand the systems within the Company and the Customer Quality Drivers.
• Must understand the importance of OEE and how it is made up and calculated.
• Must be able to communicate effectively at all levels both verbally and in writing.
• Must be able to manage workload in a timely manner in order to achieve deadlines.
• Must be able to formulate plans to achieve targets and be willing and able to make decisions based on facts.
• The will to achieve targets and goals and satisfy all internal and external customers.
• Electrical control system fault finding in a manufacturing/production environment.
• Hydraulic and pneumatic fault finding and repair.
• Drive chain (gearbox/bearings/couplings/pulley/belt/chain) fault finding and repairs.

Desirable:

• HNC/HND in Mechanical engineering subject.
• Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint software.
• CMMS experience – Ideally Agility or SAP.
• CNC fault finding and maintenance, predominantly Siemens 840D Solution Line.
• Precision spindle maintenance and repair.
• Position control – Linear rail/Ballscrew maintenance and repair.
• Robotics fault finding and maintenance (Staubli, ABB and UR).

Working a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday to Friday. 9.00 pm – 6.00 am:

Day Shift: 6am – 2pm

Back Shift: 2pm – 10pm

Night Shift: 10pm – 6am

Salary(s):

Basic: £37,938.11

AM/PM Shift: £42,650.02

Night Shift: £43,461.90