Skilled Maintenance Technician

Innospec Inc.; Ellesmere Port; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading chemical manufacturing company is seeking a Skilled Maintenance Technician for their Ellesmere Port site. The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining plant assets, ensuring safety compliance, and contributing to production targets. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and significant experience in a similar role, with a proactive approach to problem-solving and teamwork.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years post apprenticeship experience on a COMAH site.
• City and Guilds High Risk Confined Space Working NC4 qualification.
• Managing and working with asbestos – Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 ACoP.

Responsibilities

• Recognise and report threats due to equipment defects.
• Troubleshoot problems and identify improvements.
• Help train apprentices and contribute to departmental initiatives.

Skills

Fault finding and diagnostic skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

BTEC (ONC), City & Guilds or NVQ (level 2)

Job description

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A vacancy has arisen for a Skilled Maintenance Technician based at the Ellesmere Port site.

Reporting to the Maintenance Team Leader the successful candidate will support the manufacturing group with a high level of expertise to maintain assets safely, contribute to production targets and to undertake all routines necessary to maintain asset reliability and to ensure conformance with all statutory, mandatory and regulatory bodies.

The key responsibilities of this role will include:

• Recognise and report threats due to equipment defects
• Respond to Maintenance Team Leader for all aspects of work control and planning
• Required to work in conformance with all site procedures and standards
• Provides expertise in all areas within core skills
• Carries out all duties in conformance with statutory and Company quality, safety, health and environmental regulations and standards
• Help training in all areas within the team
• Partake in all departmental and site initiatives (safety, efficiency, and improvements)
• Help develop Apprentices overall competency in required areas
• Becomes proactive in all departmental and site initiatives
• Contribution to initiating and pursuing improvement to engineering effectiveness is expected along with the ability to be a hands-on active member of the team as required
• Troubleshoot problems
• Understand associated hazards whilst working on and maintaining plant assets
• To be able to identify improvements and solutions within their environment
• Competency on stripdown, inspection and rebuild of plant assets such as: Pumps, Gearboxes, Reactors, Heat exchangers, Valves, Safety valves, Filters and Agitators

The successful candidate will possess the following qualifications and skills:

• BTEC (ONC), City & Guilds or NVQ (level 2) in relevant discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years post apprenticeship experience working on a COMAH site, preferably Top Tier

• City and Guilds High Risk Confined Space Working NC4 qualification

• Managing and working with asbestos – Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 ACoP

• ECITB Mechanical Joint Integrity or equivalent

• Fault finding and diagnostic skills for various plant assets.

• Use excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• The role will necessitate working outside of core skills so a flexible approach will be required

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Manufacturing

• Industries

  Chemical Manufacturing

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