Maintenance Technician

Oxwash; Swindon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company dedicated to sustainability and excellence in textile care! As part of the Maintenance team, you will ensure the efficiency of cutting-edge laundry equipment in a dynamic environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to work with the world's first carbon-neutral laundry service, contributing to a mission that prioritizes environmental impact. If you thrive in a collaborative atmosphere and are eager to tackle challenges with a positive attitude, this is the perfect role for you. Enjoy a competitive salary, generous holiday allowance, and a commitment to your professional development.

Benefits

Generous EMI share options

31 days of holiday

Uniform and equipment provided

Employee discount on personal laundry

Free mental health support

Health cash plan

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in electrical and mechanical engineering with commercial laundry equipment.
• Ability to perform proactive and reactive maintenance tasks.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular servicing and planned preventative maintenance on laundry equipment.
• Identify and prevent faults to reduce downtime and improve efficiency.

Skills

Electrical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Problem Solving

Technical Literacy

Collaboration

Education

Fully Qualified Engineer

Tools

PLC Software

Job description

Location: South Marston Industrial Estate

Salary: £35,000 - £42,500 per annum

Working Days / Hours: 4 on / 4 off (includes weekends on a rota basis) from 6:00am to 6:00pm

Contract: Permanent

About the Maintenance team in Oxwash - come and join the washing revolution!

Our mission at Oxwash is to eliminate the impact of textile care on our planet and its people. As a part of our fast-growing Maintenance team in Swindon, you will be based at our flagship site, Big Blue I - the world’s first industrial-sized facility, operating with Net-Zero emissions (Scopes 1 & 2).

Summer 2024 brings exciting new equipment to the centre of our mission, including a 5-metre Tunnel Washer, a HyDro Water Reclamation System, and enhanced dryers, irons and folders. The Maintenance team will play an integral role in ensuring maximum uptime and efficiency of the equipment in a site that operates 24/7. You can read our Sustainability Report for 2023 for more details on Innovation at Oxwash.

So, if you are looking for a new challenge in a highly innovative and ambitious environment, you identify with our mission, and feel you’d fit perfectly in one of the top 100 organisations to escape to for 2023, then apply to work with us. You could be a part of the world’s first Certified B Corporation carbon-neutral laundry service!

About the role

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager - this role will perform both proactive and reactive maintenance tasks on the laundry equipment at Big Blue and the facility itself, as well as occasional maintenance activities at our other lagoons. You will be required to work in a highly automated environment and use your technical skills to ensure maximum uptime and efficiency of the equipment.

Your key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Servicing & PPMs - regular servicing and planned preventative maintenance of the equipment throughout the facility including commercial and industrial washing machines, tumble driers, rotary irons, finishing and dosing machines.
• Fault Finding - proactively find and prevent faults occurring to equipment reducing breakages and downtime. Report any defects to the maintenance & site managers that could impact operations.
• In-House Engineering - provide a core competency of engineering skills and be responsible for maintaining machinery/equipment/the facility to a high standard whilst striving to minimise issues. Provide knowledge and input into continuous improvement of plant, machinery, and maintenance activities.
• Collaboration with external specialists - where specific knowledge/skills are required, you will be responsible for liaising with third parties to solve any issues with the hardware and plan for future installations with a maintenance mentality.
• Stock management - establishing the critical spares required, monitoring stock levels of spare parts and ordering items which have reached the ‘on-hand’ limit.
• Health and Safety - ensuring health and safety procedures are followed throughout the facility and improving processes over time.

Key Relationships

• Maintenance Manager - You will report to the Maintenance Manager who will support you in your daily duties and in your development.

• Site Managers - you will work very closely with the site managers. They will help you prioritise your tasks in line with business needs.
• Shift Managers / Supervisors - You will work closely with the Shift Managers and Supervisors in order to maintain equipment and provide specialist skills as and when required.

These are some of the key qualities and competencies required in this role:

Technical competency

• Fully qualified engineer - Ideally, time served, with experience in electrical and mechanical engineering.
• Specialist knowledge - You will be familiar with commercial laundry equipment and have good electrical and mechanical competency.
• Driving Licence - A clean full driving licence is required to drive between facilities.
• Problem Solving - We are expanding and heavily investing in new equipment and methods. You will be able to identify problems and proactively solve them whilst also having the willingness to learn new skills to add to our in-house capabilities.
• PPM - have a strong knowledge of what effective PPM is and how they are carried out to build a scalable PPM schedule.

Technology, automation and IT literacy

• Technical and IT literacy - We focus heavily on automation and therefore you will be confident in using technology to optimise our processes and efficiency.
• PLC - Have a strong knowledge of PLC’s and their functionality, having a working knowledge of the software behind them.

Leadership and collaboration

• Collaboration - Oxwash thrives on teamwork and the exchange of ideas. You will use effective influencing and collaboration skills to cultivate professional working relationships at all levels.
• Organisation and detail - Excellence is central to our business. You will assure this through attention to detail and strong organisational skills as well as compliance with Health & Safety within a busy commercial setting.
• Inter-departmental - From time to time you may be asked to carry out tasks which are outside of your general job role in order to support operations with critical objectives such as on time delivery to customers.
• Attitude - Must be positive, self-motivated, collaborative and willing to learn new skills/ways of working.

Sustainability & Values

• You are expected to be a champion for sustainability initiatives and improvements and incorporate this into maintenance activities and procedures as well as the way we process laundry in general.

• You are expected to embody our values of creativity, excellence and integrity.

A salary of £35,000 - £42,500 per year depending on experience

Generous EMI share options, following successful probationary period

️ Enjoy the equivalent of 31 days of holiday (including bank holidays), translated into 21.5 shifts per year. Plus, the option to purchase additional holiday days and take your birthday off!

Uniform and equipment provided by Oxwash - no need to use your own smartphone for work anymore! You’ll also get an allowance to buy work related equipment.

Employee discount on personal laundry and wet cleaning

Free, confidential mental health support + 1 Mental Health Day off

A funded health cash plan and enhanced sick pay

Cycle to work scheme

Oxwash cares deeply about leading the way as an employer and providing a more inclusive and diverse workplace for all. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Oxwash. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy and maternity, marital status or disability status. Please let us know if you would benefit from any reasonable adjustments in order to participate fully in our recruitment process.