Wash Plant / Heavy Duty Plant Fitter

West Lancashire

£24 - £26

Permanent

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Recruit4staff are representing a well-established recycling and aggregate processing business in their search for a Heavy Plant Fitter to work in Liverpool

Job Details:

  • Pay: £24 - £26 per hour (dependant on experience)
  • Overtime paid at £32 per hour (Overtime is anything outside of the Monday to Friday 7am-5pm hours)
  • Hours of Work: 07:00 - 17:00 Monday to Friday, 47.5 hours per week, plus 07:00 - 12:00 Saturday when required
  • Duration: Permanent
  • Benefits: Standard pension, 20 days paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays, additional service days after 5 years
Job Role: The successful Heavy Plant Fitter will carry out planned and reactive maintenance, servicing, and repairs on heavy plant and wash plant equipment used within the recycling operation. Duties include maintaining excavators, loading shovels, crushers, screeners, and wash plant machinery to ensure safe and efficient performance. The Heavy Plant Fitter will diagnose and repair mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical faults while carrying out preventative maintenance to maximise machinery uptime.

Essential Skills, Experience, or Qualifications:

  • Previous experience of heavy plant service and maintenance work
  • Strong mechanical and electrical troubleshooting skills
  • Excellent experience working on plant machinery including loading shovels, excavators, wash plant, crusher, and screener equipment
  • Proven experience of troubleshooting, diagnostics, fault finding, and breakdown repair
  • City & Guilds / NVQ in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a busy maintenance team as a Heavy Plant Fitter

Advantageous Skills, Experience, or Qualifications

  • Previous experience with aggregate wash plant maintenance highly desirable
  • Electrical engineering qualifications
  • NPORS / CPCS Plant Tickets
Additional Information
  • Permanent opportunity within a busy recycling and aggregate processing environment
  • Saturday morning work may be required depending on operational needs
  • Excellent opportunity for an experienced Heavy Plant Fitter seeking long-term stability

Commutable From: Liverpool, Ormskirk, Southport, Burscough, St Helens, Warrington, Skelmersdale, Haydock, Widnes

Similar Job Titles: Plant Fitter, Plant Engineer, Wash Plant Engineer, Plant Technician, HGV Fitter, Mechanical Fitter, Maintenance Fitter, Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Engineer, Heavy Plant Fitter

For further information about this Heavy Plant Fitter role and other Heavy Plant Fitter opportunities please apply now. This vacancy is being advertised on behalf of Recruit4staff who are operating as a recruitment agency, agent, agencies, employment agency or employment business.

Job Reference: opp-25056
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