Shift Mechanic

**Shift Mechanic**:
**Responsibilities**:
This position will provide a variety of challenges and opportunities to work with some of the latest technology and would ideally be suited to a person who is self-motivated and possesses the drive and enthusiasm that will make a difference. The person needs to be proactive in maintaining and developing knowledge and skill to meet needs of the business.

**Key responsibilities**
- To undertake planned maintenance and overhaul of plant equipment and site facilities.
- To undertake reactive repair of plant equipment and site facilities.
- To install new equipment and modifications to existing items.
- To undertake post-maintenance and post-installation proving of equipment prior to handover for operation.
- To carry out testing, inspection, and reporting of plant condition to pre-determined and self-established schedules.
- To have understanding, implementation and compliance with site SHE procedures and identification opportunities for improvement.
- To co-ordinate other trade and support activities.
- To source materials for maintenance tasks within Engineering Stores and purchasing procedures.
- To operate within site maintenance team, communicating with other staff of relevant groups to determine task needs, priorities and time frames.
- To use computerised and paper information systems to record task history, and to brief other maintenance staff for job continuity.
- To share and developing skills across a broad range of disciplines and use the skills to best advantage.
- To be proactive in maintaining and developing knowledge and skill to meet needs of the position.
- To undertake tasks outside main area of skill and competence under TEST principles.
- To ensure that housekeeping standards within the engineering workshop and in each area of the site are maintained.
- To assist in quality checks and calibrations and support others as required.
- To encourage and support compliance with safety health and environment rules procedures and legislation amongst BYK Additives Ltd. employees and contractors.
- To ensure risk assessments and other safety assessments are completed in advance of non-routine and routine activities.

Marilyn Sedman, HR Advisor, BYK Additives Ltd. Tel +44 (0) 151 495 9982.

**Requirements**:

- Time served Mechanical apprenticeship
- NVQ level 3 Mechanical Engineering

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**Our Plus**:
In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.

BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages. They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.

**Job number**:
AW00230

**Legal entity**:
BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

**Location**:
Widnes Cheshire

**About us**:
We are ALTANA: one group of companies - four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. Global leader in specialty chemicals with over 6,700 employees, sales of around 2.7 billion euros, and myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Would you like to enrich your life with this decisive plus?

BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. Our innovative BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behaviour of materials, and properties such as UV-and light stability or flame retardancy. BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and employs a workforce of more than 2,500 people worldwide.

BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned speciality chemicals company, since 2013.

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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
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