Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician; Shift

What we offer you

• The option to attend training courses to become a multi-skilled engineer.
• Annual bonus based on the team’s key performance indicators.
• Salary sacrifice pension with 5% employer’s contribution rising to 10% after 6 months (subject to minimum 5% contribution by employee).
• Paid breaks.
• Life insurance (4 times salary).
• Private medical insurance & Healthcare cash plan.
• Critical illness insurance.
• Cycle to work scheme, Tech scheme, discounts & voucher platform.
• Financial coaching.
• Enhanced paid maternity & paternity leave.

Salary of £50,368 per annum

Working hours are shifts (2 days 2 nights 6.30-6.30, followed by 4 off)

The role:

Hydro Wrexham recycling facility are looking for an additional engineer to join their well-established team. Training on the electrical side will be provided if needed. This role involves working on heavy industrial machinery such as overhead cranes, furnaces, hydraulics, industrial saws as well as filtration plants.

• General
• Health, Safety and Environment are our priorities and it will be your responsibility to ensure the rules and regulations are adhered to within your department and all matters correctly dealt with in line with the company’s Health & Safety policy.
• Maintain housekeeping standards to ensure a clean and safe workplace.
• Have an active role in the company’s continuous improvement work and plans for future growth within the company.
• All employees are responsible for ensuring company resources are used in an effective manner to ensure best operating costs.
• Ensure good communication is given either verbally or in writing to all members of staff.

• Role
• Conduct electrical and mechanical planned maintenance tasks without supervision.
• Complete reactive/corrective actions returning equipment to expected standard output, quality and waste levels following fault diagnosis.
• Sourcing parts and material details from suppliers and arranging parts through technical administration.
• Conduct continuous machine observation and measurement, identifying & rectifying potential issues.
• Use manuals, failure history and involvement with root cause analysis as part of a multi-functional team to develop preventative tasks/improvement projects in line with TPM objectives.
• Ensure operation of machinery and mechanical equipment by undertaking preventive and reactive maintenance activities.
• Regular use of digital equipment, including Microsoft Office and CMMS, including HMI visual interpretation for fault finding & alarm notifications.
• Use SAP Fiori to manage job requests, record breakdown and/or PM findings including technical completion submission.

The successfully appointed candidate will have the following skills and abilities:

• Be a time served / apprentice trained Technician, with an ONC / HNC / City & Guilds Level 3 qualification in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering (or similar).
• Mechanical fault-finding skills, with practical knowledge of pneumatics, hydraulics and electrical / electronic motion control systems (training provided).
• Experience of working within a heavy industrial, manufacturing, or engineering environment.
• Good English communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good basic numeracy and IT skills.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion/belief, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age or disability.

• Hydro is a leading aluminium and renewable energy company committed to a sustainable future
• Founded: 1905
• Number of employees: 32,000
• Company presence in around 40 countries worldwide
• President and CEO:
  Eivind Kallevik

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