Job Description
We are seeking a Nights Maintenance Technician for our client in Swindon.
Working Days / Hours: 4 on / 4 off (includes weekends on a rota basis) from 6:00pm to 6:00am (nights)
The role
Reporting to the Maintenance Manager - this role will perform both proactive and reactive maintenance tasks on the facilities equipment and the facility itself.
You will be required to work in a highly automated environment and use your technical skills to ensure maximum up-time and efficiency of the equipment.
Your key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
* Servicing & PPMs - regular servicing and planned preventative maintenance of the equipment throughout the facility including commercial and industrial washing machines, tumble driers, rotary irons, finishing and dosing machines.
* Fault Finding - proactively find and prevent faults occurring to equipment reducing breakages and downtime. Report any defects to the maintenance & site managers that could impact operations.
* In-House Engineering - provide a core competency of engineering skills and be responsible for maintaining machinery/equipment/the facility to a high standard whilst striving to minimise issues. Provide knowledge and input into continuous improvement of plant, machinery, and maintenance activities.
* Collaboration with external specialists - where specific knowledge/skills are required, you will be responsible for liaising with third parties to solve any issues with the hardware and plan for future installations with a maintenance mentality.
* Stock management - establishing the critical spares required, monitoring stock levels of spare parts and ordering items which have reached the on-hand limit.
* Health and Safety - ensuring health and safety procedures are followed throughout the facility and improving processes over time.
Key Requirements
* Fully qualified engineer - Ideally, time served, with experience in electrical and mechanical engineering.
* Driving Licence - A clean full driving licence is required to drive between facilities.
* Problem Solving - You will be able to identify problems and proactively solve them whilst also having the willingness to learn new skills to add to our in-house capabilities.
* PPM - have a strong knowledge of what effective PPM is and how they are carried out to build a scalable PPM schedule.
* Technical and IT literacy - the client focuses heavily on automation and therefore you will be confident in using technology to optimise our processes and efficiency.
* PLC - Have a strong knowledge of PLCs and their functionality, having a working knowledge of the software behind them.
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