Senior Maintenance Technician

PHOENIX Healthcare Distribution Limited; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 1,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare distribution company in Runcorn is seeking a Senior Maintenance Technician. This role involves managing preventive maintenance, responding to system breakdowns, and ensuring the operational readiness of high-volume picking machinery. Ideal candidates should have NVQ Level 3 qualifications and experience with automated conveyor systems. The company offers a competitive benefits package, including 22 days of annual leave and health cash programs.

Benefits

22 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to High Street discounts

Medicash health cash program

Free Parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Contributory Pension Scheme

Accredited Training Programmes

Qualifications

• Experience working within a Technical department, especially maintenance.
• Good understanding of Health and Safety policies.
• Experience in Pharma Industry.

Responsibilities

• Manage Planned Preventative Maintenance and defect repairs.
• Respond immediately to breakdowns during production hours.
• Engage and manage contractors for maintenance activities.

Skills

Electrical/Mechanical skills

Root cause analysis skills

Good Technical knowledge of mechanical/electrical/pneumatic equipment

Experience on automated conveyor systems

Ability to read schematic diagrams

Education

NVQ Level 3 with Electrical/Mechanical/Pneumatic Qualification

GCSE level C or above

Job description

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Qualified Maintenance Technician (QT) to join our team in our RuncornDistribution Centre as a Senior Maintenance Technician. This role involves responsibility for Planned Preventative Maintenance, system breakdowns, defect repair and general upkeep of the depot facilities and automation ensuring that system cleanliness and condition is kept to a high standard.

To assist and manage on site projects, technical repairs and technicians workloads ensuring correct. Ensuring all Maintenance of high volume picking machinery and other ancillary equipment is up to date and operational at all times. Immediate response to any breakdowns to the production equipment in accordance with the production hours. Engage and manage contractors including obtaining/providing permits to work, risk assessments and method statements.

Base rate - £43, (supplements not included)

Hourly Rate - £ per hour

Working Pattern

hours per week

Early shift - Sunday 06:00AM to 14:00PM Monday to Friday - 06:00AM to 14:15PM

Late shift - Monday to Friday 14:00PM to 22:15PM

Night shift - Monday to Friday 22:00PM to 06:15AM

Training and Support

You will receive a comprehensive induction from the Learning and Development Facilitators.

We pride ourselves on ensuring the wellbeing of our employees and providing a good working environment and benefits package, which includes:

22 days paid annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with length of service

Access to High Street discounts

Medicash- a health cash program to assist with day-to-day healthcare costs, such as eyecare or prescriptions

Free Parking

Employee Assistance Programme

Contributory Pension Scheme

Accredited Training Programmes

Skills/Experience

• GCSE level C or above with Minimum NVQ Level 3 with an Electrical/Mechanical/Pneumatic Qualification
• Experience working within a Technical department especially maintenance
• Experience working on automated conveyor systems
• Good understanding of Health and Safety policies
• Good Technical knowledge of mechanical/electrical/pneumatic equipment
• Excellent understanding of automated equipment and controls
• Electrical/Mechanical skills
• Root cause analysis skills
• Experience in Pharma Industry
• Experience Managing a technical team
• Ability to read schematic diagrams
• PLC Qualifications

Who we want:

Our ideal candidate will be organised and self-motivated so if this sounds like you we are very keen to speak to you to discuss our opportunity further. You can apply here online by completing our short application.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received