Mechanical Maintenance Technician - DAYS ONLY

Reed Specialist Recruitment; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Mechanical or Electrical Maintenance Engineer - DAYS ONLY

Job Summary

Responsible for the engineering maintenance activities within a medium to heavy manufacturing environment. Providing a proactive service which contributes towards reducing downtime, improving plant performance and reliability using preventative and predictive maintenance methods and techniques. You will be highly motivated, with a 'can do' attitude towards your work, as well as having a degree of flexibility to help meet business needs and market demands. You will be a major exponent of Health and safety practices, with a strong focus towards work quality and plant standards.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

1. Carry out both reactive and proactive maintenance tasks, working across all departments. You will be required and able to diagnose problems/plant faults constructively and accurately.
2. Take part in the development, creation and implementation of PPM schedules to achieve maximum machine availability.
3. Record daily activities and creation of work orders within a CMMS, as well as using the system to assist with any fault diagnosis.
4. Attend and contribute towards daily and weekly planned maintenance meetings/plant priority reviews.
5. Identify/specify and order engineering parts.
6. Contribute towards the control and improvement of critical spares requirements.
7. Ensure that all parts required are booked out correctly and recorded as necessary.
8. Work with specialist OEM service engineers where required.
9. Facilitate lean ways of working to minimise waste and maximise efficiency, ensuring departmental objectives are achieved.
10. Participate in training and upskilling activities to help maintain and improve your site and technical knowledge.
11. Undertake any other tasks, which are reasonable in relation to the skills, knowledge and experience.
12. Able to perform safety & quality risk assessments for engineering work tasks.
13. Adhere to safe work practices and procedures, as well as maintaining environmental and legislative requirements.