MAINTENANCE ENGINEER   

Witney, Oxfordshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at our offices in Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

As a Maintenance Engineer for our backshift, you’ll be an important member of the manufacturing team, responsible for meeting or exceeding production targets while ensuring our automated systems remain fully maintained and operational.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you’ll be working in a fast paced environment, where you’ll take responsibility for our planned preventative maintenance programme, ensuring all machinery and equipment meets optimised performance while meeting health & safety requirements and relevant legislation.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring all plant and buildings within the factory are maintained through a PPM programme, able to meet production targets while maintaining a safety focused culture.

You’ll be responsible for managing the use of approved maintenance contractors where required, ensuring works are undertaken to the highest compliance standards, minimising business impact.

You’ll ensure that automated systems are fully operational with minimal downtime, resolving any issues as they arise, quickly to minimise impact on customers timelines.

You’ll implement and maintain the PPM for using our CMMS system (FIIX).

You’ll be competent in contributing to the introduction of new products and manufacturing techniques (CIP/5S) with the introduction of new process equipment and modification of existing and plant/equipment

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for success, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Maintenance Electrician or Maintenance Fitter in a production related maintenance role with some exposure to PLC fault diagnosis. IPAF MEWP Licence (Type 3A & 3B).

You have recognised qualifications in a relevant core trade with the ability to maintain and repair both simple and complex machinery, ideally within an automated process manufacturing environment.

You’ll be comfortable taking decisions and recommending solutions based on data. You have a good working knowledge of PUWER/LOLER/COSHH and other relevant Health & Safety regulations.

You’ll have experience in maintaining Robotics/Cobotics and an understanding of data communications in a machine environment/fieldbuses/IP addressing and common communication protocols. You’ll be competent in working with I.T. networks. (Ethercat/Ethernet/Profibus/Profinet/Modbus/TCPIP/UDP)

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com