Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - ME10

Vacancy for Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Location: Smeed Dean, ME10 3TN

Job Summary

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

A vacancy has arisen for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, based within our Smeed Dean site in Sittingbourne.

About the Role:

Working as part of the maintenance team, you will have a good working knowledge of all plant equipment and machinery and ensure that these are all operating efficiently with the minimum amount of downtime and are kept in safe and good mechanical working order. You will ensure safe working at all times, with a right first time every time by everyone attitude to produce a cost effective, quality product whilst adhering to the Company’s policies and procedures.

Main Responsibilities:

Duties include carrying out essential maintenance on all aspects of the production lines, working through a programme of PPM and helping develop the agility maintenance system. Attending breakdowns, ensuring machine safety standards are kept to the highest level and ensuring critical spares are maintained to ensure minimal downtime of the machinery. Improving factory OEE through development and innovation of the production facility. Health and Safety is paramount and a good knowledge of Health and Safety and risk assessing is a must, along with an excellent attention to detail and quality.

Essential skills & experience:

• Time served fitter from a medium / heavy industrial background
• Maintenance experience and diagnostics of hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical control systems
• Control of contractors, procurement through external suppliers
• Good exposure to health & safety standards
• IT skills – working knowledge of MS Word, Excel & Outlook

Hours of Work: 6.00am to 6.00pm on a 3 week rotation of 4 days per week (flexibility required)

About Us

Our client is the world's largest producer of bricks and No. 1 on the clay roof tiles market in Europe with 204 plants in 30 countries. They have been manufacturing quality clay building products since 1819 when we opened our first factory in Vienna, Austria. Our presence in the UK is currently larger than at any point in our near 200 year history, employing over 1200 people across our 14 manufacturing sites, Head Office, 4 showrooms and 6 distribution centres throughout the UK. We manufacture in excess of 400 products including bricks, blocks, clay roof tiles, concrete roof tiles and pavers for the homebuilding and renovation markets.