Mechanical Day Technician (m/f/d)

Novelis; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary package

Company pension plan

Open corporate culture

Job summary

A global leader in aluminium recycling seeks a Mechanical Day Technician in Warrington. The role involves minimizing plant downtime, ensuring safety, and completing preventive maintenance. Candidates should have A level or equivalent education, at least 5 years of experience in a relevant role, and strong skills in fault-finding, pneumatics, and hydraulics. This permanent position offers a competitive salary and a chance to contribute to sustainability efforts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a similar role within heavy industry.
• Familiarity with mechanical, electrical, and life safety monitoring systems.
• Knowledge of gas burners is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Attend to breakdowns and minimize plant downtime.
• Complete all PMs and provide feedback to engineering.
• Ensure safety regulations are adhered to during work.

Skills

Fault-finding

Pneumatics and hydraulics knowledge

Knowledge of mechanical and electrical systems

Microsoft Office Suite proficiency

Education

A level education or equivalent

ONC or HNC/D diploma

Job description

Who We Are

Novelis is driven by its purpose to shape a sustainable world together.

As a global leader in innovative products and services and the world's largest recycler of aluminium, we partner with customers in the automotive, beverage can, aerospace, and specialties industries to deliver solutions that improve the benefits of balanced lightweight aluminium.

We have a coordinated network of technically sophisticated rolling and recycling plants as well as foundries across 33 facilities in 9 countries throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia with 13,190 employees worldwide. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA.

Our customers include some of the largest and best-known brands in the world, including Coca-Cola, Ford, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Nespresso, Samsung, and others. In addition, Novelis is leading the industry with its sustainability and recycling efforts.

Become part of our mission to create a sustainable world and start as soon as possible at our location in Latchford, Warrington as:

Mechanical Day Technician (m/f/d)

Responsibilities & Qualifications

What awaits you

• You are attending to breakdowns throughout the day, and ensuring the plant is down for the least time possible
• You ensure all PMs allocated are done and followed up with any feedback to the engineering planner
• You are responsible for ensuring the correct escalation process is followed in the event of an out of hours problem occurring
• You are following up problems and developing solutions in cooperation with the Lead Engineer
• You make sure that all safety regulations are met whilst work is undertaken, and you ensure equipment is made safe for use

How You Convince Us

• You have an A level education, ONC or HNC/D diploma or equivalent
• You bring at least 5 years of working experience in a similar position in a heavy industry environment
• You are familiar with all aspects of pneumatics and hydraulics and you have good fault-finding attributes
• You have strong working knowledge of mechanical, electrical, and life safety monitoring and control systems typically used in critical environment
• Working knowledge of gas burners would be an additional advantage
• You have good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook

What Novelis Offers You

• A permanent position with the global pioneer for technology and sustainability in the future market of aluminium processing and recycling
• An attractive salary package as well as a company pension plan
• An open corporate culture with the opportunity to drive things forward and contribute ideas
• The opportunity to shape a sustainable world together

Location Profile

The Novelis Latchford plant, a suburb of Warrington, Cheshire in England, employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195,000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK.

The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsor health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program "Every Can Counts" to actively promote can recycling across Europe.

Have we caught your interest? Then become part of our team! We are looking forward to your application! You can apply easily with your resume via our application system in less than 5 minutes. Please note that postal applications cannot be processed and considered.

We live diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation, and identity.