Shift Maintenance Technician - Facilities

BlueGate Consulting Ltd; Greenock; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueGate Consulting Ltd is recruiting a Shift Maintenance Technician for Greenock to ensure safe, efficient operation of the facility's mechanical and electrical plant. You will carry out preventative and reactive maintenance, monitor systems, and participate in watchkeeping within a 42-hour week on a rotating shift.

The role suits time-served engineers with an apprenticeship or C&G/ONC qualification, with training provided on-site and strong teamwork and communication skills required.

Qualifications

• Time-served and ideally have a C&G / ONC or an equivalent engineering-based qualification.
• Proven communication and interpersonal skills and comfortable using MS Office.
• Willingness to undertake on-site training to understand facilities systems.
• Roles suited to mechanical maintenance, building services or multi-skilled backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Repair, maintain and monitor plant systems and equipment.
• Perform preventative and reactive maintenance and watchkeeping/plant rounds.
• Work on a 12-hour rotational shift basis within a facilities team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues to ensure safe operation.

Skills

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Safety awareness

Physical fitness

MS Excel

Education

Time-served with C&G/ONC or equivalent

Recognised technical apprenticeship

Job description

Shift Maintenance Technician - Facilities Greenock

A vacancy has arisen for a Shift Maintenance Technician within the Facilities Department at our client's site in Greenock.

The Shift Maintenance Technician will play a key role in ensuring the safe and efficient day-to-day operation of the facility's infrastructure within the manufacturing plant. Reporting to the Facilities Operations and Maintenance Manager, you will be responsible for repairing, maintaining, and monitoring plant systems and equipment.

Working on a 12-hour rotational shift basis, the Shift Maintenance Technician will conduct preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, and perform watchkeeping/plant rounds on a diverse range of mechanical and electrical (M&E) plant and equipment.

Skills required:

• Have completed a recognised technical apprenticeship
• Experience of working as part of a team in an engineering environment (e.g. installation, maintenance, repair)
• Familiar with procedures and practices related to working within industrial plant rooms.
• Demonstrate good problem-solving methodology to identify, correct, and prevent system/equipment faults.
• Demonstrate an understanding of safety systems and experience of Permit to Work systems (training on site-specific safe systems will be provided)
• Ability to work as part of a team and actively participate in cross-functional team activities
• Be physically fit and capable of working in an active role
• Skills / Knowledge that are advantageous but not essential (training will be provided):
  • Knowledge of heating, ventilation systems; refrigeration; steam / hot water generation & distribution; pumped water systems.

Qualifications/Experience

The successful candidate will be time-served and ideally have a C&G /ONC or an equivalent engineering-based qualification. Must also have proven communication and interpersonal skills and should be comfortable using MS Office software packages (mainly Excel).

Candidate must be willing and able to undertake on-site training to gain understanding & competence on various site Facilities systems

This role could be performed by candidates with mechanical maintenance, building services, and multi-skilled trade backgrounds with working knowledge of typical building services plant & equipment. In all cases, the client will provide full training to the right person to build their skills and become competent to work as part of the Maintenance Technician shift team in Greenoch.

In this role, you will be required to work a 42-hour week on a rotating shift basis.

This is a unique opportunity for the right Shift Maintenance Technician to build on their core trade skills and develop or learn new competencies in a multi-system Facilities environment in Greenock.