Mechanical Maintenance Technician

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Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Technician in Lydney. The role involves providing preventative maintenance and on-site mechanical breakdown support for various machinery. Ideal candidates will have strong problem-solving skills, mechanical experience, and a commitment to safety. This position has a regular call rota and involves working some weekends.

Qualifications

• Experience in mechanical maintenance and preventative maintenance.
• Skilled in fault finding and repairing hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Excellent team working and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety standards are maintained.
• Diagnose and repair equipment breakdowns.
• Maintain maintenance management system records.

Skills

Strong Drive, Motivation and Commitment

Good Analytical Skills

Ability to meet deadlines

Clear Communication

Computer literate with practical experience of CMMS systems

Team player

Customer and Quality Awareness

Problem Solving and Decision Making

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Location: Lydney

Contract: Permanent

We are currently working with a client based in Lydney, who are looking for a skilled mechanical fitter that can provide preventative maintenance and help with mechanical breakdown service on machinery on-site.
This role operates on a day rota pattern, shifts may range from 8 to 12 hours, based on what is needed on-site.
Working hours are Monday to Friday however you will be expected to work 1 weekend, every 5 weeks.
You will also be on a call rota 1 week in 5, for breakdown support during the evening or night.

Preventative maintenance will include:

• Transmission belt inspection, tensioning and changing,
• Inspection of bearings and couplings, alignment checking.
• Installation and maintenance of rotating equipment including pumps, refiners, paper machine rolls, agitators, fans.
• Removal and fitting of bearings and couplings.
• Repair and maintenance of all types of seals and packing’s.
• Turning, milling and grinding of components.
• General fabrication work.
• Rigging and lifting of heavy equipment.
• Fault finding on, and repair of Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems.
• Repair of compressors and other ancillary equipment.

Role Responsibilities – Mechanical Maintenance Technician

• To ensure safety standards are maintained and safe working procedures are adhered to.
• Reporting any accidents and near misses, to improve the Occupational Safety of personnel
• Diagnosing and repairing equipment breakdowns.
• Identifying failure modes of plant equipment and returning the equipment to operation safely and in a reasonable timescale.
• To follow up all shift reports, SAP and other inspection reports detailing corrective actions
• Identifying failure modes of mechanical equipment and making recommendations to prevent further failures.
• Locating spare parts using the maintenance management system. Collecting and returning spares to stores.
• To work under the rules of the Electrical and Mechanical safety systems, Issuing certificates / permits as and when required.
• To assess all engineering plant changes using the Management of Change (MOC) system.
• Obtaining maintenance schedules from the maintenance management system (SAP) and feeding back work carried out. Work arising to be recorded using notifications.
• To liaise with engineering day teams to identify and resolve long-term engineering issues.

An ideal candidate for the Mechanical Maintenance role would have:

• Strong Drive, Motivation and Commitment: the extent to which the individual is self starting and self motivated and the degree and consistency of energy / enthusiasm which is committed in the pursuit of objectives and business goals.
• The post holder should have good analytical skills and the ability to assimilate, organise and analyse pertinent information for logic based problem solving.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Able to communicate in clear concise manner, both in writing and orally
• Computer literate with practical experience of CMMS systems.
• A team worker, with a flexible approach to work.
• Customer and Quality Awareness
• Problem Solving and Decision Making

For more information on this role, please contact Jules Bujalska on 01453 852541 or send a copy of your CV to [e-mail]

Omega Resource Group is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Oil & Gas, Construction and Manufacturing sectors.

Omega is an employment agency specialising in opportunities at all levels within the Engineering, Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Electronics, Defence, Scientific, Energy & Renewables and Tech sectors.