Mechanical or Plant Fitter

Mechanical or Plant Fitter

Job Description

Jenrick are working with a leading waste and recycling company who are looking for a Mechanical/Plant fitter.

Main duties

  • To abide by & promote health & safety, ensuring all approved Company safety policies & processes and other relevant legislation is followed. To ensure compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
  • Carry out of time based mobile plant inspections and servicing
  • To provide mobile plant repair, maintenance and servicing skills including fault identification, analysis to facilitate repairs, improvements, inspections, adjustments and refurbishments to agreed standards.
  • To provide adequate cleanliness levels to mobile plant and surrounding areas including workshops.
  • To carry out PPM maintenance and record all details of inspections
  • To carry out daily checks in and around the workshop areas daily/weekly/monthly in accordance to company policy.
  • Plan, rig, sling and act as banksman for simple lifting operations. Where trained and competent operate powered hoists, pendant type
  • To assist and cover the stores during busy or holiday periods, including signing in and out of MID UK tooling and lifting equipment.
  • Ensuring work areas are kept clear at all times and that unused or waste material are returned to stores or properly disposed of at all times.
  • Ensure work is completed in a safe and timely manner and where required details of work carried out and faults found are reported to relevant Team Leader and recorded on Maintenance managements systems.
  • Ensure that tools required for tasks are kept in good condition and that all defects are reported immediately.
  • Be a member of the mechanical maintenance call out rota.

Qualifications (Bonus – can be trained on the below)

  • Rigging & slinging.
  • MEWP / IPAF trained.
  • Working at height / harness Training.
  • Abrasive Wheels Trained.
  • Fork lift / telehandler trained.
  • IOSH Working Safely

Experience

  • Previous Mobile plant maintenance experience gained within the Recycling Industry medium / heavy industry, quarrying, process industry, etc.
  • Driving and operation of mobile plant and equipment, front loading shovels, telehandlers, fork lift trucks, 360 excavators, etc.
  • Proven experience and fault finding and problem solving on a range of mobile plant equipment.
  • Operation and use of Hydraulic hose assembly equipment.
  • Servicing and repairs of mobile plant air conditioning systems.

Knowledge

  • Knowledge of Industry safe standards and systems of work, including equipment isolation and permitting systems.
  • Knowledge of removal, fitting and maintenance of rolling element bearings.
  • Principles of basic bench fitting and engineering standards.
  • Basic operation of main stream computer systems, windows, apple, android, etc.
  • Basic condition monitoring techniques for mobile plant and equipment (oil analysis sample collection and results interpretation, thermographic inspections)
  • Lubrication grade and application.
  • Hydraulic and mobile plant electrical circuits and component operation.

Skills

  • Ability to safely use a variety of basic hand tools, portable electrical equipment
  • General Bench fitting and basic fabrication.
  • Ability to read and fully understand mobile plant electrical and hydraulic circuit drawings.

Package

  • Monday – Friday day shift (occasional Saturday when required)
  • £18-20ph plenty of overtime
  • Free parking

 

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