Maintenance Technician (Days Shift)

Job description

POSITION SCOPE

Provision of an effective maintenance service to all plant/equipment used within the refining and packing areas, with emphasis on the improving plant availability & reliability.

Salary: £55,000

Shift: Mon-Fri Days

DETAILED ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

As part of this role you will either be involved with our Refinery Plant or Packaging area depending on skills and experience. We can offer a great opportunity to work on a variety of machinery at scale. We are also implementing a new £1m line into the factory and investing in our engineering team.

• Carry out plant isolations.
• Maintenance responsibility for all mechanical, electrical and electronic systems employed within the Process, Packing, Utilities and Jetty sections.
• Carry out reactive maintenance when required by plant priorities.
• Progress to agreed maintenance plans.
• To plan, schedule & agree daily/weekly workload with the Area Maintenance Leader, incorporating Preventative, Predictive and improvement activities.
• Plan plant insurance inspections liaising with the insurance inspector when required.
• Complete plant improvement projects as time allows.
• Supervise maintenance activities optimizing available on site resources and contractors to ensure expedient, high quality repairs, servicing and improvement projects.
• Undertake detailed RCA on component failures, generating and implementing modifications & improvements to address reliability and performance issues within the plant.
• Provide cost estimates for improvement projects and generate capital requests for these projects.
• Participate in capital projects at all stages of implementation through to commissioning including pre-delivery inspections & installation of new plant for area of responsibility.
• Meet with suppliers or potential suppliers and carry out audits/visits to suppliers’ premises when required.
• Mentor, train and advise on engineering practices and Maintenance issues at all levels.

ESSENTIAL CAPABILITIES (KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES)

• Multi-skilled across a range of engineering trades.
• Knowledge of Health, Safety & environmental systems & procedures
• Experience of planning and organizing engineering tasks often involving contractor resources.
• Fault-finding

ESSENTIAL WORK EXPERIENCES

• Comparable experience of maintenance within an automated continuous process environment, which may include PLC and/or HT systems.
• Experience of Predictive/Preventative maintenance techniques and regimes.

ESSENTIAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Preferably an HNC/NVQ 4 in an engineering discipline, at least BTEC/ONC in relevant discipline.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

03-02-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English