Belt Fitter

**Belt Fitter**

**Gateshead**

**Permanent, Full Time**

**£21,000 - £23,000**

**Role description**

**Your main challenges**
- To provide a professional belt fitting service to customers at their premises.
- Prepare belts in the workshop to customer specifications.
- Maintain the workshop and all stock in an orderly and safe manner, giving full consideration to Health & Safety/COSHH legislation.
- To carry out customer visits, surveys, belt specifications and any other activity required at customers sites.
- Ensure stock records are updated or details of stock used are left for your supervisor.
- Operation of the IT functions relating to works orders, completion, despatch and stock management, in accordance with the SOP Training Manual.
- Operation of the IT function relating to goods received, in accordance with POP Training Manual.
- Preparation and joining of belts to the exacting standards identified during initial training and specified in the various technical manuals.
- Fitting of belts at customer sites, which includes the preparation of the machinery to fit a belt and returning the machine to a position for the belt to be tracked by the customer.
- Where requested to by the customer and in the company of the customer’s engineer or representative, track fitted belts. If a customer does not provide an engineer or representative, track the belt but complete relevant documentation showing that this was a requirement of the customer.
- Complete accurately and clearly all documentation relating to fitting on your PDA, which includes fitting service control pages, customer satisfaction pages and any other documents or forms introduced from time to time.
- Provide an “on call” emergency service as required by the service centre or department rota.
- When called out to attend an emergency fitting, provide a full fitting service as required by the customer. Where local arrangements cannot meet the customer’s needs, utilise the services of other locations for stock and/or fitting support.
- Maintain to the highest standard all equipment and tools and any used are PAT testing.
- Maintain the workshop and stock in an orderly and safe condition, giving due regard to the care of all stock and personnel.

**What we look for**
- Fluent in English (both verbal and written).
- Experience in belt fitting and working in the conveying industry desirable but not essential.
- Educated to GCSE equivalent in English and Maths.
- Practical ability with engineering experience or qualification.
- Previous belt fitting experience useful though not essential.
- Must have excellent communication skills and be detailed and methodical in approach to tasks.
- Must be able to drive and have a clean UK driving licence, experience of driving a van.
- Will be required to drive a fork-lift truck.
- Has a working knowledge of Health & Safety and COSHH procedures.
- An eye for quality and and consistency with a customer minded approach.

**Salary**: £21,000.00-£23,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Gateshead, NE10 8YX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Fabrication: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: One location