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Why Choose Bridgnorth Aluminium
Bridgnorth Aluminium is an aluminium rolling company with a strong commitment to excellence in manufacturing high quality products. We believe in building the future together. At Bridgnorth Aluminium, your skills, ideas, and passion will help us drive innovation and deliver excellence across the industry.

Working within the mechanical team to maintain all plant machinery including both proactive planned maintenance and breakdown repair.

General Duties & Responsibilities

• Safely applying specialist craft skills for the assembly, dismantling, inspection repair and testing of mechanical equipment

• Reading and understanding construction drawings, designs and system schematics to assess equipment, or systems performance and evaluate the cause of any malfunction. Effect necessary repairs and adjustments.

• Carrying out breakdown and planned maintenance tasks

• Receiving Instructions from the Mechanical Maintenance Manager, Reliability Engineer, Reliability Technician, or from planned lists/MTAS to undertake project and maintenance work on the shift in conjunction with fitters and other operations/engineering personnel.

• Supporting a reliability centred maintenance approach to identifying and undertaking maintenance tasks on major process assets

• Ensuring product quality by managing throughput issues in the execution of maintenance and improvement works

• Reporting works completed on the site CMMS systems

• Responding to site emergencies to recover/restore production in a timely manner

• Assisting in ongoing process control and quality improvement developments through liaison with technical staff including product trial management and evaluation

• Assisting in the training and development of other members of the team and apprentices

Experience & Skills

• RCM formal training and experience

• Leadership skills

• Heavy engineering experience

• Hydraulic and pneumatic formal training and experience

• Experience within a manufacturing company

• Knowledge of metal properties and production

• A grounding in mechanical engineering ideally gained through a combination of a formal apprenticeship including practical and theoretical application, and structured additional learning

• Established skills in general fitting, welding, machining, construction, installation and maintenance techniques

• Knowledge of the use of precision measurement equipment and instrumentation

• An understanding of the use of hydraulics systems

• An understanding of codes and symbols used in drawings for mechanical and hydraulic schemes.

• The ability to use knowledge effectively to fault find on complex machinery and systems

• Computer literacy (ideally conversant in the use of CMMS) and basic office software

• A strong understanding of the importance of Health and Safety in the workplace

Working Hours: 42 hour four shift pattern working days and nights which includes two 12 hour days 6am-6pm, two 12 hour nights 6pm-6am followed by four rest days

Benefits Package:

* Annual Service Bonus

* Pension matched up to 7%

* 4 x Annual Salary Life Assurance

* Health Cash Plan

* Cycle to Work, Technology & Car scheme

* Wellbeing Support