Mechanical Maintenance Lead

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Lead to join our Slough based operations team on a permanent basis. (This is an onsite position)

Reporting to the Production Engineering Manager you will be responsible for ensuring the gas seal test rigs and associated plant and equipment is maintained to maximise up time and optimise performance.

We will look for you to ensure maintenance safety and environmental standards are kept to a high level across the site and that all maintenance, planned and reactive, are carried out in a safe, timely and efficient manner. In addition, you will ensure all aspects of planned maintenance work orders and technical planning is delivered, this includes spare parts planning for planned work to minimise Average Working Capital and optimise Mean Time To Repair.

Our team will look for you to display a real passion for everything relating to maintenance but also for you to demonstrate a skill for working collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders ensuring that we efficiently and safely deliver our maintenance strategy.

It is also important to note, you’ll be joining a production team who are focused on adding real value to every aspect of our engineering and manufacturing operations, you will have lots of opportunity for involvement, exposure to exciting projects and opportunity to forge collaborative relationships across the organisation. You will also have a great opportunity to advance within a global FTSE 100 company where career development is written into our DNA.

• Responsible for gas seal production test rigs and associated plant and equipment.
• Perform reactive, preventive, and predictive maintenance activities in a safe, timely and efficient manner to ensure the optimum equipment performance.
• Generate maintenance work orders and performance reports using the eMaint software.
• Generate and update HSE and quality risk assessments, processes, procedures, and status reports. Participate in audits and HSE reviews when required.
• Generate and update training programmes/records for the maintenance team.
• Support other maintenance work when required.
• Provide first line supervision to on site contractors activities
• Support and drive SES (Smiths Excellence System) activities within the area.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

• Apprenticeship trained (ideally, with a minimum HNC qualification) with a good understanding of engineering concepts.
• Experience maintaining the following products, or similar, will be beneficial: actuators, valves, pumps, compressors, general rotating equipment (anything involving fluid or pressure) and supervising a maintenance team.
• Qualified to work on high pressure (air) equipment and piping.
• Experienced in reading technical, P&ID drawings and fault diagnoses.
• Experience in supervising contractors and their activities on site. Ensure their appropriate documentation and permits are valid and correct.
• Attention to detail and the ability to build good relationships.
• A resource-oriented person with an innovative mind and focused on deadlines and targets.
• Experience of project management, the ability to plan in detail tasks to fit within the overall product development timelines.

At Smiths we apply leading-edge technology to design, manufacture and deliver market-leading innovative solutions that meet our customers' evolving needs, and touch the lives of millions of people every day. We are a FTSE100, global business of around 14,600 colleagues, based in 50+ countries. Our solutions have a real impact on lives across the planet, enabling industry, improving healthcare, enhancing security, advancing connectivity and supporting new homes. Our products and services are often critical to our customer s’ operations, while our proprietary technology and high service levels help create competitive advantage. We welcome colleagues with a curious mind, who are happy with responsibility, enjoy a challenge and are attracted by the idea of working at a business with a 170+ year history of innovation, and five global divisions, all experts in their field.

John Crane (www.johncrane.com) is a global leader in rotating equipment solutions, supplying engineered technologies and services to process industries. The company designs and manufactures a variety of products including mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems and predictive digital monitoring technologies. John Crane customer service is accessed through a global network of more than 200 sales and service facilities in over 50 countries. Fiscal year 2016 revenue was greater than 1 Billion USD (£830m). John Crane is part of Smiths Group (www.smiths.com), a global leader in applying advanced technologies for markets in threat and contraband detection, energy, medical devices, communications, and engineered components.