Maintenance Engineer

Are you excited by the opportunity to oversee the development and installation of plant/equipment along with commissioning plans for capital projects? Do you have previous experience in a heavy industry or manufacturing environment? We are seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join our team based in Liverpool and help us keep the world moving!
Your Role
You will manage and mitigate risks that could adversely affect plant operations, developing bespoke engineering solutions using statistical analysis for repetitive failures. You will support each department in continuous improvement processes, using your statistical analysis to highlight top losses, then leading the problem solving process to engineer out these losses. You will also drive and support the RCA process in each area, ensuring major failures are root caused and permanent fixes are put in place. You will support each department in completing and maintaining Reliability Centred Maintenance studies, ensuring each area knows what their critical assets are and what their failure modes are, helping shape their maintenance strategies to manage risks.
You will engage with Technicians and Contractors to carry out maintenance tasks on plant equipment, both reactive and planned, and provide technical support and expertise to both operations and engineering across Mersey Engineering. You will ensure KPIs are aligned to relevant objectives and they are reviewed regularly to track progress and relevant action plans are developed to mitigate operational issues.
You will ensure compliance with company rules and any statutory legislation applicable to the job role, with particular regard to the Company's obligations under PUWER, PSSR, LOLER and DSEAR.
What you'll bring
You will have experience in heavy industry or a manufacturing environment, with an understanding of DSEAR, PUWER, COSHH. You will have experience in producing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and other problem solving techniques. You will ideally have an understanding of reliability centred maintenance techniques (criticality/FMEA).

You will ideally be qualified to degree level (or equivalent) in either Electrical, Mechanical or Process Engineering, with the ability to interpret engineering drawings.

Already one of the UK's leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK's leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)


• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension


• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!


• Commitment to learning and personal development - Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!


• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required