Maintenance Engineer

Location - Oldbury - West Birmingham

Hours – 45 hours + overtime.

Shift - 7am - 5pm Monday to Friday

A quick look at the role.

The role holder will efficiently carry out preventive and reactive maintenance, examination of and fault finding on plant and equipment and servicing activities on a hazardous waste site, ensuring health & safety and environmental compliance and contributing to continuous improvement in operations and plant and equipment availability.

Why it’s an opportunity not to be wasted.

• Provide high operational availability, and an efficient breakdown repair service. Diagnosis running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale.
• Carry out installation work to the required standards.
• Ensure productivity and availability exceeds minimum defined standards, whilst driving best practice and continuous improvement in cost control and operations.
• Develop and implement a programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and develop engineered solutions to these issues.
• Carry out minor maintenance operations to plant and equipment.
• To liaise with external contractors on specific repairs/maintenance work.
• Keep abreast of changes to health & safety and environmental legislation and Company policies to ensure defined standards and best practice are implemented.
• Ensure compliance with all Company policies, processes and procedures.
• Review maintenance activities, implementing necessary corrective actions as required.
• To carry out any other such reasonable job related tasks as the Company may require.

Requirements

Here’s what we require:

• Engineering qualifications NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
• Mechanical, Electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic qualifications.
• Minimum of 2-years’ experience as Maintenance Engineer or position of similar responsibility in similar environment.
• Proven track record of working to clearly defined KPI’s.

Benefits

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary.
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Plus much more......

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 10,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.