Shift Maintenance Fitter
Location: Thurrock, Essex
Salary: Excellent Salary + Bonus + Benefits
Hours: 42 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Days and Nights
Contract: Permanent
Are you an experienced Shift Maintenance Fitter with a strong mechanical maintenance background within manufacturing, aggregates, concrete, quarrying, recycling, heavy industry or a similar production environment?
We are recruiting for a Shift Maintenance Fitter to join a busy heavy manufacturing site in Essex, supporting the safe and reliable operation of production machinery through planned, preventative and reactive maintenance.
This is an excellent opportunity for a mechanically skilled engineer or fitter who is confident working independently, diagnosing mechanical faults and completing repairs across a range of industrial plant and production equipment.
The Role
As a Shift Maintenance Fitter, you will be responsible for:
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance across production machinery
- Responding to mechanical breakdowns and reactive maintenance requirements
- Maintaining and replacing bearings, shafts, rollers and other mechanical components
- Diagnosing faults and completing effective mechanical repairs
- Working with hand tools, bearing presses and specialist fitting equipment
- Supporting plant reliability and reducing production downtime
- Carrying out general mechanical maintenance across the manufacturing facility
- Supporting welding, fabrication and pipefitting activities where required
What We’re Looking For
The successful Shift Maintenance Fitter will ideally have:
- Previous mechanical maintenance experience within manufacturing or heavy industry
- Experience working with bearings, shafts, rollers, conveyors or similar machinery
- Experience completing both planned and reactive maintenance
- Good mechanical fault-finding ability
- Confidence working independently in a production environment
- Experience using maintenance management or CMMS systems
- A strong approach to health, safety and housekeeping
- Welding and/or pipefitting experience would be advantageous
- IOSH training would also be beneficial
- Candidates from backgrounds including concrete, aggregates, quarrying, cement, brick, block manufacturing, asphalt, recycling, waste, steel, heavy manufacturing and industrial production would be particularly relevant
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