Vehicle & Mobile Plant Fitter - Frog Island, Rainham

£44,322.72 per annum

41 hours per week - Mon-Fri

The successful candidate will be a certified Fitter/Mechanic who will be responsible for repairing and maintaining both mobile and static plant to ensure utmost reliability and safety whilst reducing downtime. Working as part of a small team, you must be willing to perform tasks outside of the role description.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing technical support to all operations

• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance tasks around the ELWA sites

• Repairing mobile plant around the ELWA sites

• Anticipate mobile plant failures and make such changes or recommendations to prevent reoccurrence to minimize downtime

• Development and implementation of a programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimize downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and engineered solutions to these issues

• Using hand tools, welding equipment, powered hand tools and cutting equipment

• Ensuring H&S standards are maintained, and all related documentation is completed

• Liaising with external contractors on specific repairs/maintenance work

• Undertaking any other reasonable tasks as required

• Travelling and working between ELWA Sites as and when required.

Requirements

Essential criteria for this role:

• Able to diagnose faults, repair and maintain machinery, and have a good understanding of hydraulic, electrical, and pneumatic systems.
• Previous experience working with heavy machinery or in a mechanical / Auto electrical role can be beneficial
• Able to work under pressure and work well with others
• Candidate will be a team player and, also work under own initiative, with the ability to plan its own workload.
• Clean drivers license a requirement for the position

Benefits

What do we offer you?

• A competitive salary

• Enhanced employer contribution pension plan

• 33 days’ annual leave entitlement including statutory holidays

• Access to our Sharesave scheme – Your chance to own shares in the business you work so hard for

• Numerous opportunities for career development, we have a history of promoting from within

• Access to Renewi wellbeing and reward platform from Day 1