Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Role: Mechanical Maintenance Engineer / Fitter / Multi-Skilled Engineer – Mechanical Bias

Salary: £Negotiable

Hours: Mon to Fri, 08:00am till 4:00pm – flexibility required

Location: Commutable from Chichester, Bognor Regis, Worthing, Arundel, Shoreham, Ashington and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer, mechanical bias, to work within a small and successful factory near Worthing. You will benefit from a varied role and fast faced environment, turning your hands to many areas of the factory, focusing on ensuring production machines stay operational. It is roughly a 75%/25% split from mechanical to electrical, so someone who is mechanically qualified with some electrical experience is required.

Responsibilities

• This role will involve all aspects of plant maintenance from troubleshooting, planned maintenance and project work.
• The role is very biased to reactive and dealing with breakdowns.
• Whether you are undertaking PPM or reacting quickly & efficiently to breakdowns, you will ensure a high standard of plant maintenance is always achieved and will assist across all maintenance activities on site.
• The successful candidate will be working as part of the maintenance team ensuring that all plant equipment is operating efficiently with the minimum amount of downtime and in a safe order.
• You will also need to adhere to strict health and safety requirements at all times.
• The role will include all mechanical issues including Hydraulics, Pneumatics, Belts, Chains, Gear Boxes, Pumps, Bearings, Welding, and with some electrical work as well.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Completed a recognised apprenticeship or hold engineering qualifications or equivalent experience.
• Good experience of maintaining plant machinery through fault finding, planned maintenance, shutdowns and project work.
• Has good attention to detail – ensuring repairs are carried out to a high quality – promptly and safely.
• Friendly and adaptable working attitude, with the hunger to learn and physically fit.
• Proactive work attitude and keen to get stuck in.
• Provide good communication to both colleagues and production, keeping the required logs of maintenance work.
• Always work safely and follow safe systems of work.
• Self-motivated and driven to succeed.

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