Ride Maintenance Technician

Job Title: Maintenance Technician (Attractions, Site, Plant) Job Location: Littlehampton Shifts: 08:00 - 17:00 OR 09:00 - 18:00 working 5 out of 7 days a week Salary: £38k-£45k DOI Hours Per Week: 45 (Paid Breaks included)

Position Overview An independent seaside amusement facility is seeking Mechanical Maintenance Technician to join the Team. This fast-paced environment provides individuals the opportunity to assist in the overall maintenance and repair of rides, games, and support equipment. This position requires attention to detail in inspecting, repairing, and maintaining amusement equipment.

Responsibilities Include:

• Have the highest levels of integrity, flexibility, reliability and punctuality and hold others to those standards.
• Working outdoors and indoors, as required, in varying weather conditions (heat, cold, sun, rain).
• reading and understanding technical drawings, schematics, and manuals.
• Ensure that machines are operated to maximum potential by full and correct checks, maintenance, and repairs both to schedules and as faults occur. Being a decision maker within the park's maintenance and inspection environment utilising colleagues or management for any questions.
• Diagnose mechanical and/or electrical faults or technical problems and proactively determine proper repair solutions and practically deliver them.
• Ensure that mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic or electrical maintenance and repairs are correctly and properly carried out and recorded.
• Learn and assist the maintenance team in the documentation of inspection and maintenance works on attractions both on tablets/computer and hand written.
• Ensure that we operate day to day within the requirements HSG 175 for safe use of fairground equipment and other mandatory health and safety legislation.
• To assist and advise the maintenance team lead and directors with safety related procedures and practices including the monitoring or recording of these practices for the equipment. This will include working with independent inspection bodies for a variety of equipment inspections.
• This is a physical role that requires, at times, a flexible approach to working with individual manual handling tasks occasionally required as well as pair or team lifting tasks. Full range of mobility is required for access to inspection areas.
• Ability to climb stairs, ladders, and work at varied elevations including rooftops and ride platforms at working heights up to 10m.
• Cover any duties in your control in the event of staff absences or emergencies. To carry out duties at the request of the Directors this may entail working outside your department on occasion.
• Check and monitor levels of spares holdings and liaise with office staff or suppliers to ensure that sufficient spares are in stock or ordered to help to eliminate machine downtime. Knowledge of LEAN / SMART or 5S principles for mechanical workshop practices & stores management.

Person Profile:

• Ideally you will have a level 3 qualification within an engineering discipline (NVQ, C&G, B-TEC etc.)
• Our ideal Technician will have at minimum 3 years demonstratable practical experience as a qualified maintenance technician / mechanic / engineer. Example experience with, but not necessarily limited to, gearbox assemblies, bearing replacement, restraint systems, brake/wheel assemblies, hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Ideally to have Worked in a practical servicing role previously, with a background in mobile plant / agricultural / military / HGV / motor mechanics and/or mechanical engineering.
• Experience making good, independent, decisions relating to inspection, trouble shooting/ fault diagnosis, repair and maintenance.
• We are looking for solid experience and good technical ability. Consideration will be given to an "all rounder" with experience of working on a variety of machinery.
• Industries with transferable skills include, agricultural or military equipment servicing, HGV servicing, forklift / MEWP plant servicing, mechanical engineering or plant servicing/maintenance experience.
• It would be a beneficial if you have experience on a forklift or any current or lapsed licenses, specifically on a counterbalance truck

Career Development

• We encourage all our people to develop their careers. We offer all technicians/engineers wanting to progress their career real exposure to what is required in a busy and successful leisure business and can support professional body registration and development. IET / IMechE etc.
• The role will involve demonstrating, training and supervising junior team members in minor maintenance and operational tasks.

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