Multi-skilled Maintenance Technician

Saint Gobain Cristaleria, SL; St Helens; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Multiskilled Maintenance Technician to enhance their production capabilities. This role involves troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining a variety of production and facility equipment, ensuring optimal operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics, along with PLC experience. This company values diversity and innovation, offering a supportive environment where your contributions can lead to significant improvements in production processes. If you are passionate about continuous improvement and possess the necessary qualifications, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong skills in hydraulics, pneumatics, and mechanics required.
• Completed an Engineering apprenticeship and possess relevant certifications.

Responsibilities

• Install and maintain production machines and facility equipment.
• Perform emergency repairs and scheduled maintenance on production equipment.
• Conduct regular preventive maintenance and suggest improvements.

Skills

Hydraulic skills

Pneumatic skills

Mechanical skills

PLC experience

Electrical troubleshooting

Reading engineering drawings

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

Current Edition Electrical Installations certificate

Job description

At Saint-Gobain Industrial Ceramics, we are looking for a Multiskilled Maintenance Technician to join our team.

You’ll be responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain production and facility equipment according to safety, productive maintenance systems and processes, with a focus on continuous improvement and World Class Manufacturing (WCM)/operations.

Industrial Ceramics manufacture a variety of refractory products and materials for worldwide applications in metallurgical processing, high temperature processing, chemical, temperature and abrasion resistant applications.

The role is based on site in Rainford, and the working hours are 0700-1610 Mon to Thurs, and 0700-1200 Friday

What we’re looking for:

• Strong hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical and industrial skills with some PLC experience (working knowledge of PLCs with ability to fault find and re-programme as required)
• Familiar with safety requirements e.g. Isolation and Permit’s to Work
• Using and interpreting engineering data with the ability to read and fault find from Engineering drawings
• Completed an Engineering apprenticeship.
• Possess up to date Current Edition Electrical Installations certificate or equivalent (or working towards it)
• Experience within an industrialised manufacturing environment with a focus on continuous improvement would be advantageous

What you will be doing:

• Perform highly diversified duties to install and maintain production machines and the plant facility’s equipment.
• Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of production equipment and perform scheduled maintenance repairs of production equipment during machine service.
• Perform maintenance tasks including, but not limited to electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair of production machines.
• Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
• Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and make adjustments.
• Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment and plant facilities and complete planned maintenance forms.
• Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to supervision.
• Carry out maintenance and continual improvement of all existing plant equipment and services to the highest possible standard allowing the Company to safely achieve quality and performance targets, by preventative maintenance techniques and minimising breakdown downtime.
• Proactive approach to plant improvements, making suggestions to enhance equipment and site performance.

Is this job for you ?

Are Industrial Ceramics and Saint-Gobain inclusive employers?

Saint-Gobain is the worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction improving daily life through high-performance solutions. From wherever you are, let your unique personality and our values guide you every day to invent a more sustainable world.

We understand that a diverse workplace is not only a more enjoyable place to be, but also facilitates better decision making and innovation. So, whoever you are, and whichever Saint-Gobain business you join, you can be sure of a warm welcome with us.

And what about flexibility?

The world of work is changing. At Saint-Gobain, we’re always open to new ways of working. Everyone has different needs and commitments. We’ll happily discuss any need you might have for this role: flexible hours, job-sharing, part-time working, or anything else that matters to you. We can’t promise to meet every request when we’re recruiting. But we do promise to listen.

If you match our criteria, we will be in touch to discuss your experience and more about you as a person, we look forward to hearing from you!