Job Description
Plant & Equipment Maintenance Trainee
Location: Segensworth
Salary: £25.6k - £28.5k per annum (Dependent on skills & qualifications)
Reference: REQ3255
Do you want to be a part of an innovative and supportive team, where there are great opportunities for career progression and development?
A great opportunity has become available for the position of Plant Maintenance Trainee Fitter. The immediate role involves daily warehouse duties at our busy plant and equipment, providing equipment for the entire SGN south network. The successful applicant could develop to provide servicing and inspection of our vast array of equipment, including breathing apparatus testing, instrument calibration and mechanical maintenance. The role forms an important part of a dedicated team of plant fitters, located at the Maintenance Support Depot in Segensworth. Day-to-day activities require understanding a wide variety of portable handheld plant & equipment which includes hydraulic, pneumatic and engine plant. All equipment maintained is for the use of our large field team of gas engineers across South and South-East network who rely on this service for their safety and efficiency.
What will you be doing day to day?
- Undertake warehouse duties and playing an integral part in daily logistics.
- Goods in and out, tagging assets and adding details to a database system.
- Inputting service records into an asset software system with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Supporting the field-based Plant & Equipment teams, occasionally delivering tools and equipment across all remote Southern locations.
- Show potential to develop into a role to undertake service, maintenance, and repairs on various items of plant & equipment. Training and support will be provided.
- Join the standby team to support out-of-hours works when required.
- Maintaining high standards of service and safety.
What you’ll need
- Prior experience of working in a warehouse, stock-control environment.
- Ability to gain forklift licence, if not already obtained.
- A positive attitude and be motivated working both alone and in a busy team environment.
- Working knowledge of PUWER and understanding of the requirement to inspect tools and equipment.
- You will have organisational, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills and be practically minded.
- Good IT literacy.
- Must be an effective communicator at all levels, within your own team and beyond.
- This position could involve travel to and from SGN depots and therefore you will require a full valid driving licence.
If you don’t have all the qualifications, we would still love to hear from you… we provide our own specialised learning and development programs, providing access to learning tools to help you acquire the skills needed to excel in our environment.
If you don’t have all the qualifications, we would still love to hear from you… we provide our own specialised learning and development programs, providing access to learning tools to help you acquire the skills needed to excel in our environment.
What’s in it for you?
- Job security and genuine learning and development opportunities
- Holiday and sickness package
- HolidayPlus - Buy up to 10 additional days holiday, available all year round
- Retail & leisure discounts
- Cycle2work scheme
- Company pension scheme – with company contributions between 6 -12% (depending on length of service and personal % contribution)
- Gym & mobile discounts
- Virtual GP - Our GP Helpline is a virtual GP service which offers unlimited access to GP at a time which suits you
What we do…
We’re on a journey to transform the future of gas and we think outside the box – futuristic technologies and robotics are leading our innovation. Keeping our customers safe and warm is what we do but beyond that, we want to make the world a better place, which is why we’re passionate about helping in our communities, reducing our carbon footprint and driving innovation in our industry.
At SGN, we strive to sustain our world through managing the network that distributes natural and green gas across the south of England and Scotland. We have an important responsibility to keep the gas flowing to 5.9 million homes and businesses. Your work directly impacts SGNs commitments to keeping our customers’ homes and businesses safe.
SGN is an Equal Opportunities Employer
Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is something we are passionate about working towards at SGN. We want our workplace to be an innovative and inclusive place to work, where every single person feels empowered to achieve professional success. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, medical history, skin colour, marital status, genetic information or parental status. We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.