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Maintenance Engineer

Job Title / Position: Maintenance Engineer
Job Ref no: Maintenancehart

Position Type: Permanent

Branch Location: Recruitment agency in Bedford

Work Location: Hartlepool

Salary:
£18 - £20 per hour

Shifts / Hours: Monday to Friday

Job Description:

Maintenance Engineer

Hartlepool

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £18.00-£20.00 per hour

 

 Job description

To work in a modern State of the art plastic recycling plant

To provide efficient and effective maintenance and breakdown cover to the SPL Hartlepool site, looking after and maintaining machinery and ancillaries, e.g. preventative maintenance and breakdown repairs to ensure uptime and effective production on machinery.

You will be required to work without direct supervision and be able to identify tasks that require attention. It is essential that you can communicate effectively and understand written and verbal communications.

General

  • To undertake maintenance engineering duties as required on a daily basis as directed by the Lead Engineer
  • To organise and undertake a pre-planned maintenance schedule in accordance with written instructions and work procedures.
  • Plan and order spare parts. To ensure all PPM work is able to continue within the planned operations time frame, whilst ensuring approval and authorisation from the Lead Engineer.
  • To react to emergencies in the case of faults with gas, electric & water supply and report / communicate issues and actions to the Lead Engineer.
  • To be aware of the location of all stop cocks, gas and electric isolation points.
  • To attend to where necessary, personnel visiting the site such as contractors as instructed by the Lead Engineer.
  • To monitor the work of contractors attending site, as instructed by the Lead Engineer ensuring that work permits are in place and where required RAMS have been issued.
  • Assist in carrying out weekly fire alarm tests.
  • Assist with evacuation procedures, when necessary.
  • Read gas, electric & water meters and maintain appropriate records including meter readings and logbooks as and when required.
  • Undertake specialist mandatory equipment training to enable the company to meet its obligations. (Safe use of ladders, scaffolding, fire alarm systems, manual handling, COSHH, forklift truck & MEWP licences).
  • Ensure compliance with all contractual / statutory / mandatory undertakings associated with, “The delivery of a comprehensive Maintenance and TPM schedule”.
  • To carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function of the job. As requested by Lead Engineer.

Environmental, Safety, Risk & Compliance

  • To be committed to and champion a strong EHS culture on site. Safeguarding that staff are competent, adequately trained and supported to enable them to carry out their duties safely.
  • Maintain a robust internal control environment in order to comply with local regulations
  • To be committed to the Group-wide ethics and compliance programme, ensuring a common approach to doing business the right way and adhering at all times to the core elements of the programme - values, policies/guidance, training/education and compliance risk assessment.

Essential

Desired

- Significant experience in a manufacturing environment is essential.

- Strong planning and organisational skills

- Effective Communicator at all levels

- Experience of using Ladders / Scaffolding / MEWP

- Ability to demonstrate a high level of technical competence.

- Qualified Electrical and Mechanical Engineer - Electrical bias preferable. 17th edition qualified

- Ability to work unsupervised and be self-motivated and driven to achieve set targets

- Experience working with or setting up TPM schedules

- IOSH Managing Safely

- LEAN Six Sigma green belt

- Forklift truck License

- IPAF license

- MEWP Licence

  • Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.
  • Time Management - Uses his/her time effectively and efficiently; values time; concentrates his/her efforts on the more important priorities; gets more done in less time than others; can attend to a broader range of activities.

Quest Employment acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and as an employment business for temporary recruitment.

Date Advertised: 08 November 2024
Date Closes: 11 December 2024

Hayley Mitchell - [email protected]

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