Maintenance Technician - Plastic Shop

Maintenance technician - Plastic, £50,320, Derby, Shifts: Monday – Friday (Early, lates, nights)

Package includes: Annual bonus, 33 Days holiday, pension up to 18%, life assurance, private healthcare, Company sick pay, free workwear.

Plastics department

TMUK's prestigious plastics shop is responsible for the manufacturing, assembly, and spraying of the car’s bumpers, instrument panels, and dashboards. The shop is known as a factory within the factory and acts as a supplier to the main shop.

What does a day to day of a maintenance technician within the plastic department look like?

As a maintenance technician, you will be responsible for maintaining a variety of PLC controlled injection moulding equipment.

Responsibilities will include:

1. Planned preventative maintenance.
2. Reacting to breakdowns.
3. Electrical and Mechanical Fault finding.
4. Swapping components like for like.
5. Completing continuous improvement activity.

What do the plastic department look for?

As with all TMUK's departments, a mindset for Continuous improvement (Kaizen) and adopting a fix right first-time culture is essential. Toyota likes their maintenance technicians to be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and enjoy the buzz of a busy factory.

• Experience with injection moulding would be advantageous.
• It doesn’t matter if you are mechanical, electrical, or multiskilled. Toyota's fantastic training program will aim to multiskill you.
• Experience with PLC fault finding.

What’s in it for you?

Working for TMUK, you will be trusted and empowered to make decisions and feel part of the team. You will be given responsibility on day one. TMUK will give you the opportunity to develop and broaden your skills to help you thrive in a demanding fast-moving environment.

This is underpinned by their fantastic training offering. During your first three months, they will assess your skills in each of the following areas:

• Electrical, Mechanical, Fluid power systems
• Toyota maintenance systems
• PLC programming
• Injection Moulding
• Robotics programming

They will then tailor a training programme specific for you in the aim to get you competent in all these areas.

TMUK provides a vessel for learning; not only will you receive the above fantastic technical training, but their maintenance engineers are also provided with the opportunity to further their career by receiving further qualifications.

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.