Ref:ROXUK00154 – Maintenance Technician

Roxel Group; Kidderminster; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Success Sharing Bonus Scheme

Contributory pension

On-site parking

Subsidised canteen

Occupational sick pay

Professional membership

Income Protection

Death in service

HealthShield

Sell and Buy Holiday

Cycle to Work Scheme

Workwear

Workwear

Job summary

A leading aerospace company in Kidderminster is seeking a Maintenance Technician to maintain and enhance the performance of equipment. Responsibilities include fault diagnosis, preventive maintenance, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have a recognised electrical and mechanical qualification and a proven maintenance engineering background. This position does not offer hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven maintenance engineering professional with high standards of understanding.
• Fault diagnosis and rectification processes gained from a similar role.
• Ability to work in diverse and dynamic environments.
• 2391/52 inspection and testing qualification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Comply with SHE and all statutory Safety, Health and Environment requirements.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Identify the root cause of asset faults.
• Maintenance team collaboration to ensure safe, efficient production.
• Perform preventive and corrective maintenance per schedules.
• Fault diagnosis and rectification on plant and equipment.
• Identify root causes to improve asset reliability.
• Respond quickly to plant breakdowns and train apprentices.

Skills

Fault diagnosis and rectification

Maintenance engineering professional

Ability to read and interpret schematics

Microsoft Office

Education

Recognised electrical and mechanical qualifications

Recognised time-served Mechatronics apprenticeship with NVQ L3

2391/52 inspection and testing

Tools

CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System)

PLC fault finding

Job description

Additional Benefits: Success Sharing Bonus Scheme, Contributory pension, on-site parking, Subsidised canteen, Occupational sick pay, Professional membership, Perkbox, Income Protection, Death in service, HealthShield, Sell and Buy Holiday, Cycle to Work Scheme, Workwear

Hours of Work:

Initially on days (7.30-15.30 Monday to Thursday and 7.30-14.30 Friday) moving to a rolling shift pattern

Homeworking:

This role is not eligible for Hybrid Working.

Roxel is an Anglo‑French Company that designs, develops and manufactures a range of solid propellant rocket motors for use in tactical missiles. Its operations are spread across several sites in the UK and France and it has an annual turnover of about £150M and nearly 1000 staff, with 300 in the UK.

The UK operations are entirely based at Summerfield, Kidderminster where we now have a requirement for a Maintenance Technician.

Reporting to the Maintenance and Calibration Manager, the successful candidate will use both mechanical and electrical engineering skills / knowledge to maintain and enhance the performance of plant and equipment. Provide first class, flexible support to production requirements and factory services at all times by means of the application of electrical/mechanical skills in fault‑finding/diagnostics, planned preventive maintenance practices and electrical/mechanical installation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

1. Comply with SHE and all statutory Safety, Health and Environment requirements.
2. Ensure accurate and timely records are entered / recorded of all work carried out, root causes of failures and of spares / consumables used.
3. Ensure maintenance engineering downtime is accurately logged, monitor repair times, and find new methods / procedures to reduce these utilising our CMMS (computerised maintenance management system).
4. Work as part of the maintenance team to ensure a safe and efficient production performance is delivered.
5. Perform detailed preventive and corrective maintenance activities in accordance with schedules.
6. Fault diagnosis and rectification on all plant and equipment within the manufacturing facility.
7. Identify the root cause of asset faults, improving asset performance and reliability to meet operational objectives.
8. Provide a fast and efficient response time to any plant breakdowns that occur, whilst ensuring all company procedures and standards are adhered to.
9. Work and train new apprentices in a maintenance discipline.

Experience and Background

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications

• Recognised electrical and mechanical qualifications.
• Recognised time‑served Mechatronics apprenticeship with NVQ L3 or equivalent in an engineering maintenance discipline.

Desirable Qualifications

• 18th Edition BS7671 Certification.
• 2391/52 inspection and testing qualified.
• PLC Programming and fault finding.

Experience

Essential Experience

• Microsoft Office and CMMS (Computerised maintenance Management System).
• Proven maintenance engineering professional with high standards of electrical and mechanical understanding and competencies.
• Fault diagnosis and rectification processes and planned and corrective maintenance gained from within a similar role as part of an industrial maintenance team.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical schematics.
• Ability to work to find root cause of failure in reactive maintenance scenarios and implement permanent corrective actions.

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge and understanding of health and safety processes.
• Knowledge of quality operating systems procedures and deliverables.
• Understanding of environmental controls and practices.

Person Specification

• Ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment.
• Performance driven and self‑motivated.
• Strong planning and prioritising activities.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills at all levels of the organisation.
• Problem solving skills.
• Ability to work on their own and with a team.
• Genuine interest and amplitude in maintenance and engineering disciplines.

How to apply

Please follow the application process below to send us your CV and motivation letter.

Please specify your salary expectations as part of your application.

Please note: Obtaining a Security Clearance is a requirement of employment at Roxel UK. Please check guidelines by looking on the below link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels