Job Description:
Mechanical Maintenance Technician
Location: Workington, Cumbria
Employment: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £ 42,439.45 per annum (Increasing with callouts and overtime)
Benefits: Training and development, Bonus on your salary, Group Life Assurance and much more
Overview
An established industrial manufacturing organisation is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Technician to support the safe, reliable and efficient operation of a busy production facility. The successful candidate will carry out planned, preventative and reactive maintenance while contributing to equipment reliability, continuous improvement and high engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform planned, preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance.
- Install, repair and overhaul rotating and static mechanical equipment.
- Maintain pumps, valves, pipework, bearings, seals and associated plant equipment.
- Support fault finding, root cause analysis and equipment reliability improvements.
- Develop and improve preventative maintenance routines.
- Record maintenance activities accurately within a CMMS.
- Identify spare parts requirements and support inventory control.
- Work collaboratively with production and engineering teams to minimise downtime.
- Support continuous improvement and lean maintenance initiatives.
- Maintain high health, safety and environmental standards at all times.
- Provide technical support and mentor colleagues where appropriate.
Requirements
- NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
- Completed a recognised engineering apprenticeship or equivalent experience.
- Experience maintaining rotating equipment, pipework and industrial mechanical systems.
- Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance techniques.
- Experience using a Computerised Maintenance Management System
- Strong fault-finding and problem-solving ability.
- Experience within manufacturing, energy or heavy industrial environments is advantageous.
Why Apply?
Competitive salary and benefits, long-term career development, ongoing technical
training and the opportunity to work on varied industrial plant within a well
established engineering environment.
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