Mechanical Fitter

We are looking for a highly skilled Mechanical Fitter to join our maintenance team, ensuring that our assets and equipment operate at maximum efficiency. This is a key role in maintaining and optimising our facilities, supporting site operations, and ensuring compliance with industry and safety standards.This position requires an individual who is proactive, safety-conscious, and experienced in both reactive and planned maintenance. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability of plant operations, minimising downtime, and contributing to the overall success of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive, corrective, and proactive maintenance to ensure smooth plant operations.

• Promote and enforce health and safety standards across all depot operations, ensuring compliance with company policies.

• Conduct fault diagnosis and repairs on mechanical equipment and plant machinery.

• Perform preventive and predictive maintenance to maintain equipment capacity and value, reducing the risk of breakdowns.

• Attend and resolve plant breakdowns in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring temporary fixes are followed by permanent solutions.

• Maintain a clean, safe, and hazard-free working environment.

• Keep detailed and accurate records of maintenance activities and equipment performance.

• Support and train operatives in inspection and maintenance tasks, ensuring plant availability through a structured PPM/PMR scheme.

• Identify and report plant and equipment defects, ensuring compliance with ISO 19001 quality standards.

• Maintain up-to-date stores, ensuring critical spare parts are always available to support continuous operations.

• Assist in the installation, modification, and commissioning of new equipment and machinery.

• Comply with company health, safety, and environmental policies, proactively highlighting potential issues.

• Undertake additional duties and ad hoc projects as required by the business.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will be an experienced and adaptable Mechanical Fitter with a strong background in industrial maintenance. You should have excellent technical knowledge, a commitment to safety, and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in mechanical maintenance within a production, manufacturing, or industrial environment.

• Strong knowledge of mechanical fault diagnosis and troubleshooting.

• Experience in preventive and predictive maintenance methodologies.

• Expertise in working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

• Proficiency in welding, fabrication

• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and schematics.

• Skilled in using hand tools, power tools, and diagnostic equipment.

• Strong understanding of health, safety, and environmental regulations.

• Excellent problem-solving abilities and the capacity to conduct risk assessments.

• Effective communication and teamwork skills.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

• Knowledge of spare parts management and maintaining a well-organised stores inventory.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in installation and commissioning of new equipment.

• Familiarity with CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management Systems).

• Electrical knowledge or experience working alongside electrical engineers.

• Formal training or certifications in mechanical fitting, such as NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary (£50,000 - £55,000) + Bonus

• 25 Days Holiday + Local Bank Holidays (with options to increase)

• Company Van & Phone Provided

• Supportive and highly respected team, with a strong focus on health and safety

• Enhanced Family Benefits – maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

• Career progression opportunities, both within the UK and internationally

• Access to affinity groups, allowing employees to shape workplace culture

• Staff discounts, including special rates for garden landscaping products

Why Join Us?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a company that values its employees and invests in their growth and well-being. As a Mechanical Fitter, you will play a key role in ensuring the efficiency and safety of our operations, with excellent career progression opportunities available.

If you have the skills, experience, and dedication required for this role, we would love to hear from you.