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Biffa

Maintenance Engineering Fitter - Days

Biffa
onsite mid full-time Up to £40,876.43 per annum Horsham
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First indexed 24 Apr 2026

Description

You'll get to flex your fitter, fabricator, welder, and service engineer skills every shift. This role is adding to the current engineering team, due to expansion and increase in production this is a great time to join a forward-thinking business looking to continue to evolve.

You will be based at our Horsham site and will report directly to the Engineering Supervisor. The successful candidate will be responsible for carrying out planned preventative maintenance as well as responding to reactive breakdowns, ensuring equipment and plant are kept in safe and efficient working order.

Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 17:30

Salary: up to £40,876.43 per annum

Why it's an opportunity not to be wasted:

  • Providing high operational availability, and an efficient breakdown repair service.
  • Diagnosing running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale.
  • Carrying out installation work to the required standards and minor maintenance operations to cogeneration plants.
  • Ensuring productivity and availability exceeds minimum defined standards, whilst driving best practice and continuous improvement in cost control and processing operations.
  • Developing and implement a programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and develop engineered solutions to these issues.
  • Liaising with external contractors on specific repairs/maintenance work.
  • Keeping abreast of changes to health & safety, environmental legislation and Company policies and procedures to ensure defined standards and best practice are implemented.
  • Reviewing maintenance activities, implementing necessary corrective actions as required.
  • Reporting to Shift Supervisor, although must interact with Engineering Manager.
  • Liaising with the Shift Supervisor in planning any downtime so as to minimise the impact to the production.
  • Role often requires a fast reactive response to critical issues which need diagnosing and rectifying as soon as possible.
This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://apply.workable.com/j/29851FD820