Zenith People are working with our client who are recruiting for an experienced, Time-served Electrical Biased Maintenance Technician on a permanent basis.

The main purpose of the role is to provide engineering/ maintenance support by performing plant preventative maintenance, and engineering support.

The role responsibilities:

• Electrical/ mechanical maintenance, repair and fault finding of plant and equipment.
• Fulfilling the requirements of the facility CMMS to reduce unplanned downtime and works towards improvement of OEE.
• Electrical/ mechanical fault finding, isolation and repair of equipment.
• Providing input into the electrical maintenance and operation of plant equipment.
• Carry out evaluation and risk assessments within all areas of the plant to ensure safe working methods and environment
• Ensure that plant critical spares are maintained at the required level.
• Identify suitable external resource when appropriate for routing maintenance activities or ongoing improvement projects.
• Use SAP to raise purchase requisitions as appropriate.
• Working on plant improvement initiatives and makes recommendations to reduce unplanned downtime.
• Working with suitable external engineering services as and when required to ensure safe and effective operation of plant equipment.
• Undertaking periodic training to ensure that maintenance activities are performed in compliance with best safe working practice and current legislation.
• Shifts – Days & Lates
• For each on call the Engineers work they get at least 4 hours overtime paid at time & 1/2 Monday to Thursday.

Qualifications & Skills Required

• Minimum NVQ Level 3 – Previous practical experience working in High Volume Manufacturing Plant
• Experience of maintaining and fault finding on the following types of equipment; PLC control, Variable Speed Drives, Conveyor Systems.
• Familiar with the requirements of working in High Volume Manufacturing
• Excellent internal and external communications skills
• Experience of working an on-call maintenance system.

If you are a time-served Maintenance Technician with PLC Fault Finding experience and would like to be considered for this vacancy, please click apply now.