Maintenance Operative
Location: Crayford
Salary: GBP30,000 per year.
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7am - 4pm.
Job type: Full-time, Permanent

Bridge Recruitment is helping one of our well-established clients recruit for an experienced Maintenance Operative role to join their ever-expanding team. You will undertake reactive maintenance tasks to high quality standards including plumbing, joinery & carpentry, with painting & decorating where necessary. Within this role you will be reporting to the Manufacturing Manager.

Responsibilities of the Maintenance Operative:
· Responsible and accountable for all maintenance
· Responsible to keep the outside area clean, neat and tidy at all times.
· Responsible to have the outside waste disposed of responsibly that collects in the area at the side of the building. Allocate an area with proper signage, etc.
· Responsible to put together an asset care management system to ensure our equipment is well maintained through a PM system.
· Responsible to introduce and maintain a job card system for any and all maintenance tasks required in the business.
· Responsible to ensure all major equipment has there required maintenance from 3rd parties on time and planned in properly.
· Responsible to lead tasks associated with factory renovations, etc.
· Maintain key relationships with sub-contractors where assistance is required in the factory to carry out jobs that are not within the Maintenance Operative qualifications i.e. electrical work, etc.
· Responsible to keep in order the ad hoc systems such as the alarm system, fire alarm system, air conditioners, lighting, etc.
· Moving furniture and heavy items across the buildings.
· Maintenance checks on machinery and report faults accordingly
· Responding to health and safety matters appropriately.
· Undertake project work as required.
· Carry out PAT testing/inspections.
· Undertake any other reasonable tasks

Requirements of the Maintenance Operative:
· You must be able to take instruction, not only from your direct manager but related authority levels in order to get the job done.
· Ability to build good rapport with all departments.
· Have a driving licence
· Excellent communication and organisation skills.
· You must be able to work on your own initiative.
· The ability to read manufacturing general assembly drawings.
· Must have excellent attention to detail.
· Computer literate
· Forklift experience would be preferred but not essential.

If you feel like you meet the above criteria for the Maintenance Operative role, then please apply now