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Trainee Maintenance Operator

Alton
3 days ago
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A fantastic career opportunity with full training has arisen for a Trainee Process Operator / trainee maintenance operator for our top tier COMAH specialist engineering client based in Alton. In return there is an excellent starting salary package circa £35k dependant on skills and experience with full training, further qualifications plus overtime and excellent benefits including a large annual company bonus, generous holidays, an excellent 10% contributory pension scheme and gym allowance in a well established reputable growing company. within a stable, well established and rewarding company. Apply now!

This is a challenging junior trainee level role that would suit a motivated hands on maintenance or hands on operator engineering professional with experience of basic fault finding and repair, ppm, servicing, fixing, maintenance of plant equipment or similar, You must have engineering operational maintenance experience as a base and they will train the rest. My client is offering a great long term career opportunity to develop the candidate into a Process Operator further with structured personalised training plans and safety and engineering qualifications. Do not miss out!

The ideal trainee Process Operator candidates will have the following skills and experience;

  • Experience of being an operator with machinery or mechanical technician, mechanical maintenance, mech tech or any operator role where servicing, repairing and fixing equipment on site

  • Operator, maintenance, service, repair or mechanical technician, mech tech experience on plant equipment in any live or process plant industries such as manufacturing, engineering, water, chemical, petrochemical, oil and gas, nuclear, pharmaceutical, paper manufacturing or any heavy machinery live plant hazardous site ideally

  • Any engineering qualifications eg Mechanical, Electrical or electro-mechanical or NVQ, C&G in welding, fitting, pipework etc any hands on / maintenance trade qualifications

  • Full UK driving licence and car to get to remote site and full eligibility to work without sponsorship now or in the future after a visa’s expire

  • Based within 1 hour’s commute of Alton site as there will be call outs - this is a shift role of 6am-6pm -7 days on 7 days off and 7 nights on 7 nights off– you must be willing and able to do this

  • True willingness to learn and develop long term as scheduled full training will be provided to become a process operator this includes engineering qualifications, NEBOSH safety qualifications, etc

    Reporting directly to the Maintenance Manager, the purpose of this process operator role is to role is to carry out corrective (non routine) and preventative (routine) at the production facilities and sites in Hampshire. A full job description will be discussed and submitted to suitable process operator candidates upon application.

    To apply please email your CV with your salary expectations and availability & detail how you meet our clients junior process operator criteria.

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