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The Role
An opportunity has arisen for an Multi-skilled maintenance engineer based at our Knottingley site in West Yorkshire. Reporting to our Engineering manager the role is part of an engineering team of 6. Working hours based on a rotational 3 shift pattern of 8-hour days, afternoons and nights. Basic hourly contract of 40 to 48 hours per week worked flexibly with weekend working required to suit maintenance and operational demand, usually 1 Saturday morning in 3.
General responsibilities:
- Hands-on position holding responsibility for efficient repair and service of operational plant and equipment.
- Repair of all plant breakdowns both electrical and mechanical.
- Servicing and overhaul of plant and equipment.
- Active application of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic principles.
- Identify and assess cause of failure and execution of repair / corrective action.
- Participation of routine maintenance systems and execution of appropriate corrective action / recommendation of further necessary work.
- All activity in compliance with the company Environmental & Health & Safety Policy.
- Efficient and proactive execution of all activities.
Personal attributes required by the demands of the role are:
- At least 5 years’ experience in a similar background.
- A good mechanical knowledge including hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Experience in fabrication and welding.
- Electrical competency including fault finding on control systems and automated 3 phase plant equipment.
- Honest and reliable.
- Positive proactive and flexible attitude towards work.
- A desire for improvement and change.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Team worker and Leadership.
The Benefits Package
Plasmor Ltd is the UK’s leading independent Concrete Building and Paving Block manufacturer. Intrinsic to the company’s manufacturing capability the company has a strong engineering discipline which is instrumental to the efficiency of our production systems.
- Full time, 40-48 hours per week.
- 22 days paid annual holiday increasing by 1 day per year up to 27 days, plus statutory holidays.
- Participate in the profit-sharing scheme (discretionary payment being based on company performance)
- Annual service bonus.
- Government backed Auto enrolment pension scheme.
The candidate
A degree of physical activity is intrinsic within this role, including manual handling of large machinery parts/components and other equipment, negotiating steps/ladders/vertical ladders and above ground open-mesh floor walkways, working at height, accessing various areas of production machinery, at times the use of hand/pneumatic tools. There is also a requirement to wear items of personal protective equipment, (PPE), including, for certain tasks, respiratory protective equipment.