Mechanical Biased Multi Skilled Maintenance Technician

Zenith People are working with our client who are a Manufacturer looking to recruit a time-served Mechanical Biased Maintenance Technician with a strong background in Hydraulics on a permanent basis.

The Main Purpose of the role

Working as part of the site Maintenance team, you will be responsible for carrying out reactive and preventative maintenance within a busy, high-volume Manufacturing plant.

Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive, planned, preventive & predictive maintenance tasks on plant equipment.
• To maintain and improve the site PPM (Planned Preventive Maintenance) schedule.
• To maintain and increase plant availability.
• To record and communicate maintenance information via written, electronic & verbal means.
• To assist installation and commissioning of new equipment.
• Suggests and takes ownership of continuous improvement activities to achieve results.
• Support customers (internal & external), including the identification and correction of machinery faults such as, electrical equipment, mechanical faults, PLC s, hydraulics and pneumatics.

The Person we are looking for/Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post qualified experience gained within a high-volume manufacturing environment
• Experience of fault finding and RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
• Experience of working with Power Press equipment
• Fault finding and diagnostics on controls equipment, Drives, inverters & PLC s: Siemens Step 7 / TIA portal, etc.
• Fault finding and diagnostics on relay systems
• Experience of engineering hand tools; Test Equipment; Lifting and slinging equipment; Access equipment; General office equipment; Workshop machinery; Vibratory tools: i.e. Hand-held grinders and hammer action drilling machines
• Experience of welding (MMA or MIG)
• Working knowledge of feedback systems e.g. Encoder
• Working knowledge of robotic systems / Automation
• Working knowledge of electrical heating systems
• Previous experience of TPM activities
• Working knowledge of chillers, compressors and plant utilities
• Experience of machine installation and modification
• Experience of safety interlocking systems
• Ability to follow and fault find using electrical / hydraulic / pneumatic and engineering drawings
• Computer literate

• Time served maintenance technician
• Qualified to HNC level in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or equivalent. Degree an advantage
• IEE Regs (17th/18th Edition) desirable
• NEBOSH or IOSH desirable

If you are a time-served Mechanical Biased Maintenance Technician with a background in carrying out maintenance on hydraulic machinery please click apply now.