Balfour Beatty plc
Maintenance Engineer
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About The Role
Balfour Beatty Rail are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join the team at our site in Hereford. Reporting to the Maintenance Team leader, the role purpose is to
operate within the Production Team as a Mechanical and electrical Maintenance Engineer working to planned maintenance schedules and reactive maintenance on machinery and electrical infrastructure within a steel fabrication facility.
What you'll be doing
- Maintain plant and machinery within the Fabrication, Bundling & Overhead Line Stores area maintaining machinery and general duties as required to support all Operations.
- Maintain both CNC and Manual equipment to fabricate steelwork.
- Operate as part of a team undertaking tasks as required.
- Work under an electrical permit system and approved safe system of work.
- Work under a mechanical permit system and approved safe system of work.
- Work as part of the maintenance team on proactive maintenance and breakdowns as required by the Team leaders and Fabrication Manager.
- Carry out weekly audits for legionella testing.
- Work safely at all times following risk assessments and work instructions and maintain a clean working environment.
- Effective repairs of the boiler systems and all preventative maintenance.
- Embrace our Zero Harm approach to safety.
Who we're looking for
- Experience in use on CNC milling to be able to make tooling for production use.
- Experience in the operation of overhead cranes and plant.
- Experience in Forklift truck and telehandler operations.
- Computer literate to read task sheets online training and safety documentation including wiring drawings and machine control schematics is desired.
- Candidates must be positive and enthusiastic and support a 'can do' attitude.
- Candidates must be reliable and support a continuous improvement culture.
- Willingness to learn and embrace new ideas.
- Ability to work as part of a team and be self-motivated.
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Qualifications
- Ideally an NVQ level 3 in electrical system and equipment or equivalent.
- Ideally an NVQ level 3 in mechanical maintenance and installation -or equivalent.
- Ideally 18th edition wiring regulations.
- ESSW awareness training.
- MSSW awareness training.
- Ideally a PAT qualification.
- NPORS counterbalance.
- NPORS Telehandler including 360 slew.
- Asbestos awareness training.
- First aid at working certification.
- Fire Marshall training.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty works at the heart of the UK’s rail networks – designing, enhancing and maintaining thousands of miles of the railways that connect communities and underpin growth.
From feasibility studies, planning and design through to implementation and asset management, we provide multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure services across the lifecycle of rail assets. Our expertise covers electrification, track, power, civils, specialist rail plant, railway systems and technologies.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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