We are currently recruiting for a Mechanical Engineering Team Leader to join our client, who are a leading specialist in their industry and have customers all around the world. This is a fantastic time to join the company, who care about there employees and focus on opportunities and progressions!! The role is a day shift role and permanent.
The primary duties of the role include skilled execution of planned & corrective mechanical maintenance activities, ensuring reliable condition and robust performance of numerous and varied items of plant and equipment across the site. Fault finding and root cause failure identification, a proactive approach to defect correction and reporting with a sound ability for swift breakdown resolution in emergency process situations. Co-ordination with existing maintenance, operations and process departments as well as adopting safe working techniques and good overall engineering practice.
You will have many responsibilities, some will include:
* Implementation of scheduled planned maintenance by realising work orders generated by the computerised maintenance management system (CMMS)
* Reacting to failure/breakdown of equipment and carrying out corrective/remedial measures as necessary or directed
* Possess & demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of industrial mechanical equipment, especially pumps, gearboxes/drive trains, bearings/shafts, conveyors, valves and screens/filters etc
* Perform strip down, repair, overhaul & test o...