Maintenance Engineer

Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Alphagary

– Would you like to play a role in advancing life around the world?

– Do you have a natural flair for Engineering and would like to be part of a business that creates materials used in everyday products that help make our lives easier and better?

– Would you like to work in a stable, profitable, and growing business?

If so, we should talk! – Alphagary, an Orbia business and part of the Polymer Solutions group, is hiring for a Maintenance Engineer, based at Melton Mowbray.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Carry out assigned tasks in mechanical and electrical repairs from work requested by the maintenance supervisor or when outside of dayshift hours shift supervision.
• Carry out repairs and health and safety checks as required to maintain high safety standards to satisfy health and safety legislation.
• Report dangerous and unsafe machinery and respond to health and safety failures to provide corrective actions or isolation of faulty plant.
• Assist in the assessment of risks, and carrying out repairs by safe methods of work for all tasks as assigned by the supervisor. Ensure that work carried out unsupervised is to the same standard of safe working to ensure the safety of yourself and any others who may be affected.
• In liaison with Production, implement planned maintenance and repairs to ensure the smooth operation of all production plant. Provide a safe, flexible, skilled service covering 24/7 operation to minimise lost manufacturing time and consequential costs.
• Ensure cost effective and reliable maintenance of all site utility services (gas, water, electricity, etc). Evaluate, recommend and implement energy saving and continuous improvements to the plant.

Qualification and Skills:

Ideally the jobholder will be multiskilled and hold electrical qualifications, and have some years’ experience of maintaining plant and equipment. Must be able to work within a team, and demonstrate initiative and fault-finding skills in dealing with repairs. The person must have the attitude and ability to learn new skills and processes to be found in the business.

We have 2 roles- One to work on a 24/7 shift running 7 to 7, days and nights and other a day shift.

If you are excited about this role but your experience doesn’t include every qualification, we still encourage you to apply and join our talent network. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! We care about your talent and potential – not whether you tick every box on a job description.

As we tackle global problems, we are also laser focused on developing women leaders of the future.

About Alphagary, an Orbia business and part of the Polymer Solutions group:

Orbia’s Polymer Solutions business Alphagary is a global leader in the design and manufacture of specialty polymer compounds and additives for polyvinyl chloride compounds including stabilizers, plasticizers and colorants.

Products made from these materials find functional value in our everyday lives from communications and power cables to various building and industrial products, automotive interior parts, a wide variety of consumer goods including food-contact applications, and healthcare products. You don’t see our name, but you use products made from our materials every day!

With over 60 years of experience, we have earned a reputation for providing innovative, functional, and durable solutions to a broad marketplace, often custom formulating a material to meet end-user requirements. We are committed to sustainable development, offering products formulated with bio-based content and recycled content, and active participation in initiatives that promote a circular economy. Our passion for quality, health and safety practices is evidenced by ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHS ISO 45001 certifications.

Alphagary employs 1,000 people across 9 facilities located in the US, UK, Mexico, Colombia, and India, serving 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. We are an Orbia business and part of the Polymer Solutions group.

About Orbia:

Orbia is a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura) sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, with global headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.

We are passionate about the topics that define how people will live and thrive tomorrow, always taking consideration of our values: Be Brave, Take Responsibility and Embrace Diversity.

Forbes named Orbia and its businesses as One of World’s Best Employers in 2021. Entrepreneurial with an owner’s mindset and a long-term perspective, Orbia is a $9B+ global force with the agility of a start-up. Today, all Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, employing more than 23,000 people worldwide.

We invite you to learn more about Orbia and its businesses!