Maintenance Agility Planning Technician

Career Area: Operations

Job Description:

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Job Title: Maintenance Agility Planning Technician

Pay grade: £18.87

Location: Caterpillar Shrewsbury Ltd.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave
• Up to 6% Bonus
• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered for this role, in-line with the needs of the business.

About IPSD

Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) designs, tests and manufactures 0.5 to 18L Cat and Perkins engines that power over 5000 applications including Marine, Petroleum, Industrial Applications, Electric Generators, and Locomotives. Caterpillar’s company strategy includes sustainability as one of four focus areas and IPSD is engaged and actively preparing green energy solutions for the future.

Job Summary

The maintenance department is responsible for continually improving the availability of facility production equipment. Significant investment in people and equipment over recent years has led to a motivated and highly engaged team delivering excellent results using modern technology and maintenance techniques.

The Maintenance Agility Planning Technician role maintains and develops facility availability and uptime using tools such as Preventative Maintenance and fault analysis. In this role, you will be responsible for Agility system maintenance and housekeeping to enable a controlled planned preventative maintenance schedule, maintaining an equipment/asset list. Regular reporting will provide statistics on the numbers of reactive and planned maintenance work orders, overdue, completed, and totals. Liaising with the maintenance and operations departments, you will assist in maximizing equipment availability. Planning of PPM/Schedules and preparing Standard Jobs to initiate reactive & PPM Maintenance Work Orders will assist in the correct scheduling and monitoring of priority ranked tasks for the available maintenance resources.

A role within our Maintenance team will provide you with the opportunity to work with many leading brands in manufacturing technology such as: Safety Kleen, Heller, Okuma, Yamazaki Mazak, Harry Major, SSG Insight.

What You Will Do:

• Work with Agility Application to maintain Equipment Asset List, PPM Schedule Jobs, and Reactive tasks.
• Work to create and maintain a planned preventative maintenance schedule.
• Report on the data accuracy and performance statistics of maintenance tasks.
• Use mobile devices and PCs to manage Agility work orders.
• Assist with the use of Agility to record calibration certificates to standards maintaining compliance with internal and externally audited quality standards.
• Liaise with the operations, maintenance team, and engineering departments to maximize equipment availability.
• Ensure that safe working practices are followed.
• Verbally report & document daily issues for handover.

Candidates will have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles:

• NVQ Level 3 / Time served Apprentice in Maintenance Engineering, equivalent qualifications in Mechatronics, or demonstrable skills from experience.
• Experience of Agility Application and working with priority-based job lists.
• Some experience of mechanical aspects of Machinery & Equipment (e.g., motors, gearboxes, etc.).
• Some knowledge of CNC, hydraulic & pneumatic machine control systems.
• Experience in site infrastructure maintenance.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working with limited supervision.

Candidates may have gained the following skills and experience through previous roles:

• Experience of working within a manufacturing environment.
• IT Skills to use Microsoft 365 suite of software and SSG Insight Agility application.

Additional Information:

Day Shift: 37 hours per week, 4 days. Mon-Thur 7:30am – 5:15pm.

Paid overtime when required.

What You Will Get:

We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our dynamic, diverse, and friendly team. We have a culture of openness, autonomy, support, personal development as well as a continuous drive for improvement.

About Caterpillar:

Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines, and diesel-electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to contributing to a reduced-carbon future. Our innovative products and services, backed by our global dealer network, provide exceptional value that helps customers succeed.

NB: The panel cannot make assumptions when shortlisting; therefore, please demonstrate your qualifications and experience on your CV relevant to the criteria outlined.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO).

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Posting Dates: February 12, 2025 - February 28, 2025.