Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Posted 3 days ago by Morgan Gray

£53,538 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
IG8, Woodford Green, Greater London

Summary: The Mechanical Maintenance Technician role at a FTSE250 manufacturing company in Essex involves maintaining and optimizing complex automated production machinery on an 18-month fixed-term contract. The position focuses on minimizing equipment downtime and enhancing production performance through proactive maintenance strategies. Candidates should possess a mechanical skillset and relevant experience in a production environment. Opportunities for permanent employment may arise after the contract period.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring optimum production performance and minimizing equipment downtime
  • Responding to and resolving electrical and mechanical breakdowns
  • Driving reliability through a proactive approach to maintenance
  • Delivery of continuous improvement strategies and support/lead projects to improve equipment efficiencies
  • Working through planned maintenance tasks and using/updating CMMS
  • Maintaining equipment including hydraulics, pneumatics, boilers, and high-speed mechanisms

Key Skills:

  • Mechanical skillset
  • Educated to NVQ Level 3 in a mechanical engineering discipline
  • Experience maintaining complex equipment in a production or related environment
  • Fault finding and repair experience on control systems
  • Experience using a CMMS system

Salary (Rate): £53,538/year

City: Woodford Green

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other

Detailed Description From Employer:

A FTSE250 manufacturing company in Essex who are a global leader in their industry are recruiting for a Mechanical Maintenance Technician for their production plant.

Working a rotating double day shift (Mon-Fri) the role would be on an 18-month fixed term contract with poential opportunitiy to go permanent.

The focus of the role is to maintain and optimise a range of complex automated production machinery and equipment.

Key tasks will include:

  • Ensuring optimum production performance and minimizing equipment downtime
  • Responding to and resolving electrical and mechanical breakdowns
  • Driving reliability through a proactive approach to maintenance
  • Delivery of continuous improvement strategies and support/lead projects to improve equipment efficiencies
  • Working through planned maintenance tasks and using/updating CMMS
  • Equipment includes hydraulics, pneumatics, boilers, high speed mechanisms

Successful applicants will need to have mechanical skillset and be educated to NVQ Level 3 in a mechanical engineering discipline. Experience maintaining complex equipment in a production or related environment is also required. Experience of fault finding and repair on control systems is beneficial as experience using a CMMS system.

Benefits of the role include paid overtime, 34 days total annual holiday, a defined pension scheme and life insurance.

The position may be suitable for applicants who are currently a Mechanical Technician, Multi-Skilled Engineer, Maintenance Engineer or similar working in manufacturing, power generation, distribution, or relevant automated environment