Maintenance Technician

Astute’s Power Team are working with a leading Waste Management company to recruit a multi-skilled maintenance technician to join a recycling process facility in Wrexham.

As a Maintenance Technician you will be responsible for both planned and reactive maintenance across both mechanical and electrical equipment.

This role covers a 2 shift system working 6am – 2pm or 2pm – 10pm with an additional 6 hours every other Saturday as overtime (6am -12pm).

If you have the right skills & experience and want to find out more, please get in touch!

Responsibilities and duties:
As the Maintenance Technician, you will be responsible for:

• Carrying out both reactive and planned maintenance on mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Supporting with breakdown repairs to maximise plant availability.
• Carrying out plant inspections to ensure plant safety.
• Reporting and investigating breakdowns, incidents, damage and faults.
• Supporting with process improvement initiatives.
• Ensuring all work is in accordance with health, safety and environmental standards and compliance.

Professional qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following:

• Ideally apprenticeship trained in an Electrical or Mechanical Engineering field.
• Minimum Level 3 Engineering qualification
• IOSH would be advantageous

Personal skills
The Maintenance Technician role would suit someone with:

• At least three years experience post apprenticeship
• Hands on experience with electrical assets including PLC’s, drives, motors, inverters etc
• Hands on experience with mechanical assets including conveyors, balers, trommels, belts, gearboxes etc
• Competent with IT systems including maintenance systems (CMMS)
• Able to work mixture of early and late shifts and occasional weekend work

Salary and benefits of the Maintenance Technician role

• Competitive basic salary
• Guaranteed overtime
• Quarterly bonus
• Full benefits (please ask for details)

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