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Multi - Skilled Maintenance Engineer - Sustainable Delivery Company (Hiring Immediately)

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Bridgwater

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GBP 53,000

Full time

30+ days ago

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Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to enhance their team in Bridgwater. This role involves ensuring the smooth operation of sortation equipment, responding to breakdowns, and performing both electrical and mechanical repairs. The ideal candidate will have a strong engineering background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work autonomously. With a commitment to health and safety, you'll play a vital role in maintaining high service standards across multiple depots. This position offers not just a job but a pathway to a rewarding career with numerous development opportunities.

Benefits

Enhanced maternity and paternity package
Free life assurance of 4 x salary
Free onsite car parking
Health Kiosks visiting locations
Discounted shopping from retailers
Milestone Days off
Free eye tests and glasses support

Qualifications

  • Recognized engineering qualification or apprenticeship required.
  • Experience in fast-paced automated environments is essential.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain sortation equipment and respond to breakdowns.
  • Carry out PPM and reactive maintenance on equipment.
  • Liaise with departments regarding maintenance and repairs.

Skills

Electrical repair
Mechanical repair
Problem-solving
Autonomous working
Team collaboration

Education

Engineering apprenticeship
HND/HNC in Engineering

Tools

SCADA systems

Job description

Job Description

● Contract Type: Permanent / 40 Hours Per Week
● Location: Bridgwater and Surrounding area
● Salary: £52,813 plus Bonus
● Days of Work: Monday - Friday
● Hours of Work: 7am - 3pm

DPD is a member of Geopost, one of Europe's leading parcel delivery networks, and aims to be the most sustainable delivery company in the UK, with a turnover of over £2 billion. We also deliver the best service, use the best technology and recruit and retain the best people in the industry.

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Confident Employer.

Our Network Engineering Manager is currently recruiting for an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (known internally as Network Sortation Engineer) to help strengthen our existing team and deliver outstanding service to our Network of Depots around the UK.

In this role you will cover a number of Depots ensuring that equipment is maintained and any repairs are carried out as quickly as possible so that they can continue to deliver world class service to our customers.

You will be responsible for all aspects of maintenance and breakdowns on sortation equipment from both an electrical and mechanical perspective.

Other Key responsibilities of this role will be:

  1. Responding to Breakdowns with Extensive fault finding (both electrical and mechanical)
  2. Completion of adhoc job requests for repairs on all Sortation equipment
  3. Carrying out all PPM and reactive maintenance of our Sortation equipment.
  4. Carrying out servicing work, including the completion of service reports and internal systems as required.
  5. Using SCADA systems to aid fault finding of all sortation systems.
  6. Liaising with other departments including Security, Operations and IT regarding maintenance and repair work in line with business and operational requirements.
  7. Adhering to and promotion of health & safety policies (including COSHH)

What we’re looking for:

To be considered for this role you will have completed a recognised engineering, maintenance engineering or general engineering apprenticeship or hold an appropriate engineering qualification (HND/HNC) with an Electrical bias. You will be comfortable working autonomously with the ability to self-manage to deliver an effective and timely service to your cluster of depots. We would also expect:

  1. Experience within a fast paced automated environment with demonstrable experience of both electrical and mechanical repair.
  2. Excellent problem solving skills with an ability to work effectively under pressure and within time constraints.
  3. Demonstrate high levels of resilience, self-motivation and flexibility.
  4. A strong team player with a “can do” mentality towards work.
  5. Demonstrate the core DPD DNA values of Passion, Respect, Honesty, Flexibility, Hard Work and Accountability.
  6. A full UK driving licence is required as travel between Depots is essential.

About our benefits:

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to millions of customers across the country each day. It’s important to us that we demonstrate our recognition of you in providing you with more than just a salary and job stability. To name but a few:

  1. Enhanced maternity and paternity package
  2. Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
  3. Free onsite car parking for all employees
  4. Health Kiosks visiting every location
  5. Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off supermarket shopping
  6. Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
  7. Free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities. If you identify with our aims and values and can help us deliver our customers' promises, then this is the job for you! Apply today.

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