Mine Fitter

**The Role**

As a Mine Fitter for British Gypsum you can expect a rewarding and exciting role where you will be joining a business that is focused on continuing being a global leader in their field, who can offer you the career progression and security associated withan established and respected brand.

This is site based role at our Birkshead mine in Kirby Thor.

The Mine Fitter will be a crucial part of a technical minded engineering team reporting into the Mine Engineering manager and be responsible for mechanical inspections, machinery performance as well as to provide mechanical maintenance to fixed and mobileplant.

**Here's a short breakdown of the key focus areas in this role**
- An understanding of maintenance and repair of vehicles for man and materials transport ie. Land Rovers, agricultural tractors, Telehandlers, trailers etc.
- Able to work within a small dedicated team or on their own initiative.
- Receptive to additional training to enhance their skills.
- Attend to breakdowns, assess and recover or plan for repairs and assist others when required.
- Carry out mechanical inspections and report back
- Able to identify and report defects and a course of action.
- Completion of a comprehensive shift report detailing work completed during shift and any other follow up work.
- Capable of welding and fabrication work to a good standard (welding to BS4872).
- Knowledge of compressed air and hydraulic systems and fault finding on them.
- A background knowledge of maintenance and repair of underground vehicles and mobile plant or similar would be beneficial.
- Good knowledge of maintenance, repair and installation of material handling (conveying, crushing and screening) pumping and compressed air systems would be beneficial.
- Able to work a 3 shift pattern of Days, Nights and Afters as required, with flexibility to provide out of hours cover as needed.

**Requirements**:
Mining based qualification or HNC or NVQ level 3 in Engineering or recognised mechanical apprenticeship or equivalent.

**Additional Requirements**

**Is this role right for me?**

**Our key attitudes; Innovative. Customer Focused. Agile. Open and Engaging. Entrepreneurial -**are what makes us andhow we like to work at Saint-Gobain. These are shared characteristics of us all and traits we look for in future team members. We are looking for the right person to fit in with our Saint-Gobain culture, but we know this needsto be right for you too. So if you think you match with the following, then we would love to hear from you

**About Us**

**Is Saint-Gobain the right company for me?**

We are on a mission to '**Make the World a Better Home**'; this is about creating solutions that improve the performance of buildings, to be responsible and ethical, and to support our local communities. It's also our journey to Net Carbon Zero.So if you want to be part of our new vision and share the same passion as us, we'd love to hear from you.

Regardless of which business you join, you will be welcomed into a professional and warm environment, where we value all of our employees equally and have a strong focus on their health, safety and wellbeing at all times

Did you know we've won 'Top UK & Global Employer' 6 years running?

**Are Saint-Gobain an Inclusive employer?**

We're working hard to be, and we're keen to hire talented people regardless of their background, abilities, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, what football team you support, taste in music, fashion sense or anything else thatmakes you, you

We believe that working in a diverse business can be more enjoyable, teams can be more innovative, and make better decisions. We already employ many fantastic people from diverse backgrounds, but we still want to do more.