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The Mechanical Fitter will possess a comprehensive range of engineering knowledge along with suitable practical experience for both troubleshooting and installation work. The ideal candidate will possess CompEx Mechanical qualifications and experience working in hazardous areas. Experience and knowledge gained working within top-tier CoMAH regulations, including corresponding environmental, health, and safety legislative requirements, are fundamental to this role.
Responsibilities
To be responsible to the Engineering Manager for:
- Ensuring all duties and assigned activities are carried out in compliance with statutory legal requirements and the company's quality, health & safety, and environmental policies
- Promoting a positive health and safety culture by sustaining good housekeeping standards, wearing correct PPE, reporting any observed near misses, and isolating any unsafe situations
- Adhering to Tradebe policies and procedures, completing all necessary documentation, and performing the necessary routine checks while maintaining the required standards
- Managing workload to ensure safe, standardized, and efficient maintenance of all plant and equipment as per CMMS task instructions, statutory requirements, and technical documents
- Completion of daily work to suitable standards using CMMS job sheets for routine maintenance, repairs, and commissioning/testing of the site equipment, ensuring correct completion of jobs
- Responsible for performing and overseeing the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of all relevant mechanical equipment, ensuring all work undertaken to the highest standards and within required timescales
- Working in conjunction with the engineering supervisor to complete CMMS jobs and task lists, ensuring that they are completed on time and suitably closed out
- Working with the engineering supervisor to ensure that all mechanical-based project plans, improvements, repairs, and shutdowns are performed to the appropriate standard/timescales
- Contributing as required to the scoping and installation of capital projects, including the provision of labor, supervision of contract labor, technical/process data, and thorough commissioning, snagging, and handover of installed equipment
- Identifying appropriate repairs/upgrades and routine maintenance requirements to maximize and maintain plant availability and efficiency
- Reporting all equipment defects, faults, or alarms and ensuring any issue is appropriately handled, ensuring any unsafe items are suitably isolated and communicated
- The mechanical engineering team must follow Tradebe permit-to-work procedures, ensuring that suitable risk assessments and controls are in place before starting the task. This must include suitable coverage of all hazards, pre-requisites for isolations, and cleaning prior to starting work
- Supporting the engineering department to flexibly respond to business needs through performing additional tasks, including basic electrical tasks, forklift driving, etc., in accordance with competencies and departmental requirements
- Participating in MOC discussion reviews, hazard studies, risk/task assessments, and accident investigations as required
- Following the change management (MOC) system by ensuring that all actions have been approved and using own assessment, ensuring no impact to normal operation or statutory requirements prior to physically making a change
- Striving to improve plant operation and control through mechanical maintenance support to maximize plant efficiency while identifying any potential continuous improvement opportunities to improve control, operation, or maintenance
- Providing basic training or awareness for other engineers or operators in areas they are working
- Ensuring all waste generated by the mechanical engineering team is disposed of timely and efficiently in line with current legislation while maintaining housekeeping standards
- Assisting the engineering supervisor in all aspects of his work and deputising as required in his absence
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- Ensuring that all tasks performed are conducted to good Health, Safety, and Environmental practices, paying particular attention to housekeeping and that all defects or issues are reported
- Following task risk assessment instructions, ensuring that task instructions cover everyday tasks and routines suitably and that they are up to date
- Timely completion of CMMS tasks and routines while complying with all health and safety requirements
- Aiming to achieve efficient and maximized operation of equipment, ensuring it is correctly assembled and commissioned safely as per manufacturer instructions
- Suitable precautions are used to ensure all work, process break-ins, and isolations are communicated to the permit writer; this must include depressurisation, any required cleaning or flushing, and testing prior to starting work
- Safe and efficient return to service of plant equipment, ensuring suitable engineering standards of workmanship are followed for all repairs and installations in terms of legal compliance, best practice, and company standards where applicable; if required, suitable testing must be performed prior to handover
- Recording details from equipment breakdowns while repairing with the intention to improve reliability, performance, running time, and reduce repair costs by assessing the root cause of the failure; especially for common or repetitive failures. Note: spares used and hours consumed should be recorded on the work order
- Making sure that all routine tasks are issued via a CMMS work order and that they are up to date and accurate. Tasks must be consistently performed by following the task instructions at all key stages. Contribute to the full periodic review of task instructions against guidance and best practices
- Ensuring all COSHH, hazard, and risk assessments control measures are highlighted, understood, and included within a permit to work and/or as appropriate within the relevant task instruction
- Walking through all jobs prior to starting to ensure suitable precautions, access, isolations, and cleaning have been provided
- Recording the usage and control of mechanical consumables and spares to safeguard uninterrupted processing
- Responsible for updating the engineering supervisor with daily communications to provide timely feedback on activities, any outstanding handover faults or breakdowns, isolations in place, and any accidents, incidents, or near misses that have occurred
- Assisting the Engineering supervisor to plan and manage maintenance and shutdown schedules, incorporating all required routines while minimizing plant downtime
- Following identified disposal routes for all waste arisings, ensuring that the correct segregation rules are used; if required, highlight, identify, and label any unknown routes to the engineering supervisor
- Ensuring suitable standards are used for all repairs and installations through compliance to either legislative, best practice, or company standards as appropriate. If deemed necessary, suitable testing and/or commissioning must be performed for all equipment/pipelines prior to handover
- A flexible approach is required when working and availability for work during out-of-hours breakdowns or weekend shutdowns through availability of reasonable amounts of overtime to enable the company to meet its production needs
- Undergoing any necessary training to keep abreast of new technologies or health & safety requirements
- In the event of a Major Incident or Accident on site, providing support to the Site Incident Controller to aid the recovery of the site and/or support attending emergency services
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Skills
Mechanical Fitting
Troubleshooting
Installation
Hazardous Area Work
CMMS
Preventative Maintenance
Root Cause Analysis
Risk Assessment
Permit To Work
Equipment Commissioning
COSHH
Forklift Driving