Mechanical Technician

Enfinium Community Fund; Leeds; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vitality Private Medical care

Private Dental Care

Life Assurance

Company pension with a 6% companyCon-

Perkbox to get all your Highstreet

Cycle to Work scheme

Employee Assistance programme

Uniform provided

Continuous learning and development

Job summary

enfinium is one of the UK's leading energy-from-waste companies, operating multiple facilities nationwide. This Mechanical Technician role supports maintenance of plant equipment, carrying out planned, preventative and reactive work to maximise reliability and performance.

The role involves a rotating shift pattern with potential nights/weekends and on-call requirements to meet operational demands. The ideal candidate will hold NVQ3 in Mechanical engineering and have at least 3 years in

Qualifications

• NVQ3 in Mechanical engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in mechanical maintenance in power generation, renewables or similar.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinating and planning daily maintenance activities and assisting in outage planning, scheduling & co-ordination.
• Involvement in investigations into safety and technical aspects of mechanical equipment, plus designing and installing of new equipment or system modifications and understanding change management requirements.
• Preparation of work control packs using a maintenance management system, issuing packs and reporting on close out of the work.
• Use of a maintenance reporting system to record time and material use, problems identified and corrected, and further action required.
• Reads and interprets drawings, sketches, prints and specifications as required.
• Responds to emergency call-ins and provides acceptable off-duty cover as directed by the Mechanical Engineer.

Education

NVQ3 in Mechanical engineering

Job description

About The Role

What is the role?

As a Mechanical Technician you will be working as part of a maintenance team to carry out both ad-hoc and planned preventative and reactive maintenance on all mechanical aspects of the plant in a safe, compliant and commercially effective way to ensure operational continuity, reliability and performance of the plant.

This role is worked on a rotating shift pattern typically. However in times of unscheduled downtime and outage, flexibility and additional hours will be required. This may include weekends and nights. This is to meet operational demands and maximise plant availability. Emergency call-out will be a requirement in order to meet operational demands.

What you will doing?

Please see below a brief overview of the role and the responsibilities

• Co-ordinating and planning daily maintenance activities and assisting in outage planning, scheduling & co-ordination.
• Involvement in any investigations into safety and technical aspects of the mechanical equipment within the plant, along with designing and installing of new equipment and/or system modifications and understands the requirements of a change management process.
• Preparation of work control packs using a maintenance management system, issuing said work packs and reporting on close out of the work.
• Use of a maintenance reporting system to record time and material use, problems identified and corrected, and further action required. Provides a complete history of maintenance on equipment.
• Reads and interprets drawings, sketches, prints and specifications as required.
• Responds within a reasonable time to any emergency call-ins and provides acceptable off-duty cover as directed by the Mechanical Engineer.
  

Qualifications & Experience

The requirements listed below are representative of the qualifications necessary to perform the job.

• Minimum of NVQ3 qualified in Mechanical engineering or other relevant discipline.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in mechanical maintenance and operational systems gained within power generation, renewable energies or other similar related industry.

Ideally, a background as a Maintenance Technician or Service Engineer undertaking mechanical repairs on plant equipment.

About Us

Who are enfinium?

enfinium is one of the largest energy-from-waste businesses in the UK and an industry leader in the conversion of non-recyclable residential and business waste into heat and partially renewable power. enfinium currently has a platform of six (two in construction) strategically located facilities across the UK. Today, enfinium has an annual waste processing capacity of over 2.3 million tonnes, and a total combined electric generating capacity of 265MW (gross) - enough energy to power more than 500,000 UK homes. enfinium is owned by infrastructure investment funds managed by Igneo Infrastructure Partners

At enfinium we’re guided by five principles, we use these to make sure we’re not only doing a great job, but we’re doing it in the right and safe way:

One Team- Pride Matters- Safety on Purpose- Make a positive impact- Take Ownership

As a Company, we really value our employees and as such, offer a generous employee benefits package which includes the following:

• Vitality Private Medical care
• Private Dental Care
• Life Assurance
• Company pension with a 6% company contribution
• Perkbox to get all your Highstreet discounts
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance programme
• Uniform provided
• Continuous learning and development through our e-learning portal and access to role-based qualifications