Heavy Plant Fitter

Explore Plant and Transport Solutions are a FORS Gold accredited specialist supplier of Transport and Plant Hire services to a wide range of industries including construction, rail and aerospace.

We strive to be the industry leader and deliver best in class levels of safety, service, and efficiency. Our Transport division combines over 50 years of construction logistics and haulage expertise, and our Plant division boasts one of the largest, most diverse and modern ranges of plant equipment, small tools, formwork and falsework systems.

The Vacancy

Working as part of our Heavy Plant Maintenance Team to support the depot by improving availability and plant standards and helping achieve our Health, Safety and environmental initiatives. Ensuring maintenance schedules are adhered to and delivered in a safe and professional manner.

Main Responsibilities

• Completion of planned, preventative and corrective maintenance activities.
• Maintain records of work completed and support processes.
• Delivery of continuous improvement projects / actions.
• Adhere to all safety-related documentation (Safe Systems of Work, Visual Task Sheets & Risk Assessments / Permits to work etc) for all maintenance activities.
• Ensure safety related documentation (Risk Assessments / Permits to work etc.) for all maintenance work is completed where required.
• Strong & Proactive communication with the site team – acting as the face of Explore Plant Hire.
• Support management with root cause problem solving exercises.

Skills / Knowledge

Strong maintenance background with excellent understanding of heavy plant machinery ranging from excavators, telehandlers, dumpers & rollers etc. (OEM understanding for CAT, JCB and Hitachi Machines preferred.)

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What we offer

This is a permanent position, subject to a successful probation period

Please be advised we reserve the right to close the advert early.