Mechanical Technician - Energy Recovery

What will I be doing?

As a Maintenance Technician with a mechanical bias, in our Energy Recovery facility based in Avonmouth, your role will be crucial in providing reactive and planned maintenance cover for all mechanical plant. You'll also offer cross‑functional support to other team members as needed. Your responsibilities will include performing maintenance activities to the highest standard, ensuring excellent housekeeping, maintaining records within the computer maintenance management system (CMMS), and updating documentation to reflect plant modifications.

You'll be a part of a 24‑hour callout rota and assist other SUEZ sites when required.

You might be asked to help cover for a colleague, or to attend a specific training; however you will be properly compensated with 1.5x overtime rate, increasing to 2x on Sundays, and to 3x on bank holidays.

• Completion of a relevant engineering apprenticeship.
• Qualified to City and Guilds level or NVQ level 3.
• A minimum of 4 years of maintenance engineering experience in a process, steam raising, or heavy engineering environment.
• A suitable health and safety qualification (IOSH etc.).
• Experience working in a regulated business environment.
• Experience working under a permit to work system.
• Welding and burning experience.
• Regulatory monitoring requirements training (MCERTS).
• A basic appreciation of electrical systems.
• Experience in using computer maintenance management systems (CMMS).

SUEZ recycling and recovery UK is a forward‑thinking company recognised as one of the top places in the UK to work. We are proud of the fantastic opportunities for personal growth and development we offer our people. As we continue to develop and grow, you can play an important part in the essential work we are doing to make businesses and communities more sustainable.

With a raft of benefits, family‑friendly policies and excellent remuneration packages, there’s never been a better time to join SUEZ recycling and recovery UK. A friendly and supportive place that you will love to work in, we believe creativity, clear communication and our drive for excellence are the keys to our success. If you share our thinking – and have the qualities we’re looking for – you could play a big part in our dedicated team.

We reserve the right to close this role early, should we receive a sufficient number of applications.