Heavy Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance engineers’ work involves checking, repairing and servicing machinery, Equipment, systems and infrastructures.

Work typically involves:

• Planning and undertaking scheduled maintenance
• Responding to breakdowns
• Repairing equipment
• Supervising engineering and technical staff
• Obtaining specialist components, fixtures or fittings
• Managing budgets, monitoring and controlling maintenance costs
• Maintaining statistical and financial records
• Ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation
• Creating maintenance procedures
• Managing stocks of supplies and equipment.
• Fitting new parts and making sure equipment is working correctly
• Carrying out quality inspections on jobs
• Liaising with client departments, customers and other engineering and production colleagues
• Designing maintenance strategies, procedures and methods
• Diagnosing breakdown problems
• Arranging specialist procurement of fixtures, fittings or components
• Controlling maintenance tools, stores and equipment
• Dealing with emergencies, unplanned problems and repairs
• Improving health and safety policies and procedures
• Writing maintenance strategies to help with installation and commissioning guidelines
• Ensuring there is continuous cover of the machinery and equipment in case of breakdowns.