Facilities Maintenance Specialist
We are seeking a skilled Facilities Maintenance Specialist to join our high-performing maintenance team. This role offers the opportunity to work with modern plant facilities and services while supporting production in achieving top performance.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Plant Operations and Monitoring: Carrying out routine checks, monitoring plant/equipment performance, completing planned mechanical & electrical maintenance using CMMS, and calibrating and testing alarms, instrumentation, and plant systems.
2. Troubleshooting and Repairs: Responding quickly to plant/equipment failures, recording resolutions, diagnosing and solving mechanical, electrical, and process issues, and repairing electrical installations, including panel fault finding and VSD replacement.
3. Support and Collaboration: Working closely with sub-contractors to complete tasks safely and on time, partnering with production to ensure equipment supports performance targets, and making suggestions to improve plant reliability and efficiency.
4. Safety and Compliance: Managing permits to work (LOTO, hot works, general permits), using remote monitoring tools such as BMS to check plant condition, and ensuring all work follows safety procedures and quality standards.
5. Other Key Duties: Coordinating plant shutdowns with management, managing spares to ensure reliability of operations, providing out-of-hours support on a rotational basis, and supporting general plant, services, and WWTP maintenance.
Qualifications and Experience:
* Mechanical qualification (electrical/instrumentation experience highly desirable).
* Multi-skilled/cross-skilled mindset.
* Previous experience in facilities or high-volume manufacturing maintenance.
* Ability to read electrical and hydraulic/pneumatic drawings.
* Familiarity with technically challenging applications is an advantage.
* Strong track record of interacting with suppliers, internal teams, and contractors.