Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Role Overview

We are now recruiting for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer. The primary function of the role is to manage and support the mechanical maintenance and project activities within the CHP.

The responsibilities include advising on these areas to ensure that practices, procedures, and systems comply with statutory requirements, industry standards, and px Group guidelines.

You will receive personal on-the-job training, coaching, mentoring and twice‑yearly development and performance reviews to help maintain and develop your contributions and competence.

• Be the responsible person (mechanical) for the site mechanical improvements.
• Direct responsibility of sites.
• Write Schemes of Examination and ensure timely completion of competent person inspections.
• Work with the sites competent person to ensure any documentation required for PSSR statutory outages is completed in a timely manner.
• Responsibility for site outage planning and execution.
• Maintain the CMMS system, including PMs and the backlog of all works.
• Contribute and lead where applicable all site mechanical projects.
• Be the site's appropriate officer for:
  • Legionella
  • Environmental management system
  • Confined Space
  • Pressure systems
  • Radiography
  • Asbestos
• Lead and complete, where required, all mechanical MOCs.
• Identify and immediately report plant defects, observations and anomalies that could affect the safety of the process or are noted to be abnormal to usual operations.
• Further responsibilities can be found on the Role Profile.

• A HNC in a mechanical engineering discipline (or equivalent).
• Demonstrable successful mechanical engineering contributions in a 24/7 industrial environment, including:
  • Maintenance or fault finding
  • Contract management
  • Outage planning/management
  • Contractor management
  • Engineering & operational interface
  • Developing, implementing and evaluating improvements and modifications
  • Management of change applications
  • Managing budgets and projects
• Knowledge of SHEQ systems, CMMS, full project lifecycle, PSSR, control valve and actuator types.
• Ability to read and interpret design specifications and technical drawings.

• Eye test and glasses
• Online company discounts, including cinema tickets and gym membership discounts
• Long Service Awards
• Employee recognition scheme – ELITE Awards
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Benefits Package
• Onsite parking

px Group is a leading provider of operations management, engineering services and energy management solutions in high‑hazard, highly regulated industries nationally and globally. Since 2011, px Group has managed the operations and maintenance teams at the Stallingborough CHP plant, undertaking outages, plant studies and projects to improve plant availability, reliability and asset integrity.

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