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About the Role
This is a hands-on role combining mechanical maintenance, fault finding, fabrication and repair work to keep plant and equipment operating safely and efficiently. This role is key to maximising plant availability through effective planned preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, fabrication and continuous improvement activities. You’ll play an important role in maintaining high engineering standards, reducing downtime, carrying out fabrication and welding repairs where required, and ensuring all maintenance work is completed safely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
- Deliver high levels of plant availability through effective maintenance, fabrication and rapid breakdown response.
- Diagnose mechanical faults quickly and carry out efficient repairs to minimise operational downtime.
- Support and deliver planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules across site equipment and machinery.
- Carry out fabrication, welding, cutting and modification work to repair, maintain or improve plant, machinery and associated equipment.
- Manufacture, repair and modify metal components, brackets, guards, supports and other plant parts as required.
- Identify recurring faults and help develop long-term engineering solutions, fabrication improvements and process enhancements.
- Carry out mechanical maintenance, fitting, fabrication and repair work on plant and equipment in line with operational priorities.
- Read and interpret engineering drawings, sketches and technical specifications to support maintenance and fabrication activities.
- Liaise with external contractors and suppliers regarding specialist maintenance, fabrication and repair activities.
- Maintain high standards of health & safety, compliance and housekeeping at all times, particularly when undertaking welding, hot works and other fabrication activities.
- Ensure engineering and fabrication activities comply with company procedures and current legislation.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve reliability, operational efficiency and plant performance.
Requirements
- Engineering or fabrication qualification, such as Level 3 City & Guilds, NVQ or equivalent.
- Strong mechanical maintenance and/or fabrication experience within an industrial environment.
- Experience carrying out fault finding, repairs and preventative maintenance on production or processing equipment, and/or fabrication and welding repairs.
- Practical experience in fabrication, metalwork, welding and the repair or modification of metal components would be advantageous.
- Ability to work effectively within a fast-paced operational environment.
- A proactive approach to problem-solving, with the ability to work independently and as part of a wider engineering team.
Skills
- Mechanical maintenance
- Fault finding
- Fabrication
- Repair work
- Welding
- PPM
- Metalwork
- Reading engineering drawings
Location
- Edmonton
Work Type
- 4 on, 4 off shift pattern
- Rotating 2 days and 2 nights
- 12 hour shifts
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Level 3 City & Guilds
- NVQ
- HNC/HND in Mechanical Engineering
- IOSH Managing Safely qualification
- Additional welding, fabrication or coded welding qualifications
Salary/Compensations
- £51,751.70 per annum+ London Weighting Allowance
Benefits
- Ongoing career development, training and coaching
- Generous pension scheme
- Medical and dental scheme
- Retail and leisure discounts
- Holiday and travel discounts
- Bike to work scheme
About the Company
- Biffa is the UK’s No.1 choice for business waste management.
- We are dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion, believing different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment.
Equal Opportunity
- Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa. We believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.