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Location: Peterborough
Pay Rate: GBP15.00 - GBP23.00 per hour
Position Type: 12-Month Contract (Likely to extend)
Working Hours: Monday - Thursday (8:00 AM - 4:00 PM), Friday (8:00 AM - 3:30 PM)
Location Type: 100% Onsite
We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Maintenance Technician to join our team in Peterborough. This unique, hybrid role combines operational management (70:80) with hands-on technical exposure (20:30), offering a fantastic opportunity to take ownership of site processes while developing your technical maintenance skill set.
You will take end-to-end ownership of our compressed gas supply and management, ensuring smooth operations, compliance, and stock availability, while also supporting equipment maintenance and calibration alongside our engineering team.
Key Responsibilities
- Gas Systems and Stock Management: Take ownership of ordering, certification auditing, inventory control, and physical handling/setup of compressed gas systems.
- Supplier Coordination: Liaise with suppliers to manage stock flow, maintain compliant documentation, and resolve operational supply issues.
- Compliance and Auditing: Maintain strict safety and certification standards to support seamless operational continuity.
- Technical Maintenance and Calibration: Assist with total preventative maintenance (TPM), equipment servicing, diagnostic investigations, and first-line breakdown cover on analytical equipment.
- Team Operations: Serve as a key operational anchor, supporting the wider team and ensuring continuous facility uptime.
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Essential Skills And Experience
- Education/Qualifications: Level 3 Apprenticeship (electro-mechanical, engineering, science, or similar technical discipline) or equivalent hands-on industry experience.
- Stock and Inventory Control: Proven experience in stock control or inventory management, ideally with regulated materials or pressurised gases.
- Supplier Interaction: Experience with ordering processes, supplier communication, and maintaining compliance documentation.
- Technical Mindset: Ability to read technical drawings/schematics, follow written instructions, and apply basic root-cause analysis.
- Software Competency: Comfort using inventory/procurement systems and standard tools like MS Excel.
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Randstad CPE Values
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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