You’ll get to flex your fitter, fabricator, welder, and service engineer skills every shift.
This role is adding to the current engineering team, due to expansion and increase in production this is a great time to join a forward‑thinking business looking to continue to evolve.
A quick look at the role.
You will be based at our Horsham site and will report directly to the Engineering Supervisor. The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out planned preventative maintenance as well as responding to reactive breakdowns, ensuring equipment and plant are kept in safe and efficient working order.
Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 17:30
Salary: up to £40,876.43 per annum
Responsibilities
* Providing high operational availability, and an efficient breakdown repair service.
* Diagnosing running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale.
* Carrying out installation work to the required standards and minor maintenance operations to cogeneration plants.
* Ensuring productivity and availability exceeds minimum defined standards, whilst driving best practice and continuous improvement in cost control and processing operations.
* Developing and implement a programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and develop engineered solutions to these issues.
* Liaising with external contractors on specific repairs/maintenance work.
* Keeping abreast of changes to health & safety, environmental legislation and Company policies and procedures to ensure defined standards and best practice are implemented.
* Reviewing maintenance activities, implementing necessary corrective actions as required.
* Reporting to Shift Supervisor, although must interact with Engineering Manager.
* Liaising with the Shift Supervisor in planning any downtime so as to minimise the impact to the production.
* Role often requires a fast reactive response to critical issues which need diagnosing and rectifying as soon as possible.
Qualifications
* Preferred 2 years’ experience as Electrical or Mechanical Fitter (or position of similar responsibility ideally in a green waste/water treatment process plant or similar).
* Proven track record of working to clearly defined KPI’s.
* Proven track record of delivering continuous improvement within an operational environment.
* Similar roles are Junior Maintenance Fitter, Trainee Maintenance Fitter, Apprentice Maintenance Fitter, Assistant Maintenance Fitter, Mechanical Fitter Mate, Fitter’s Mate, Junior Mechanical Fitter, Plant Fitter Assistant, Trainee Plant Fitter, Maintenance Fitter Assistant, Workshop Fitter, Junior Plant Fitter, Trainee Mechanical Fitter, Mechanical Fitter Improver, Entry Level Maintenance Fitter
Benefits
* Ongoing career development, training and coaching.
* Generous pension scheme.
* Retail and leisure discounts.
* Holiday and travel discounts.
* Life cover.
Diversity
Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.
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