Lead Maintenance Engineer

Responsibilities

As Lead Maintenance Engineer your responsibilities will include:

• Create a link between the Asset Manager and maintenance technicians, supporting hands-on responsibilities while also assisting in strategic decisions and developments on site. Additionally, serving as the primary technical contact for contractors and coordinating maintenance tasks and guiding the technicians in daily work.
• Prepare and schedule maintenance activities in accordance with production management, focusing on improving scheduled maintenance and implementing digital maintenance planning tools. Additionally, you will work on high-priority maintenance issues and support and lead the maintenance technicians concerning incident management.
• Lead and contribute to Engineering projects, from pre-feed engineering to construction stage, serving as one of the main contacts for engineering activities within the project. Ensuring compliance with BASF guidelines and providing post-project operational performance reporting.
• Support Asset Management activities to ensure change processes are carried out according to BASF requirements, identify technical measures to maintain plant reliability and availability, and oversee spare part management while preparing and monitoring Maintenance KPIs.

Qualifications

• Ideally educated to degree level in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent) and demonstrable experience working in Engineering in the Chemical Industry and related projects. In addition to demonstrating strong experience in maintenance work, with a focus on mechanical engineering and/or C&I activities.
• A high level of Computer literacy is required in addition to an advanced knowledge and user experience of maintenance programmes and concepts (e.g. Risk Based Management, Bad Actor Analysis, etc.) and legal inspection requirements.
• A high level of self-motivation and good (project) leadership, communication and network skills alongside with a structured, solution-oriented and self-reliant way of working. “Completer-finishing” mindset.
• Flexibility is essential, to support critical breakdowns on site and attend out of hours to support the maintenance team when required.

Benefits

Responsibility from day one in a challenging work environment and “on-the-job” training as part of a committed team.

At BASF we offer a total package which includes not only an attractive salary and bonus but also benefits including a defined contribution pension scheme; a share scheme; private healthcare and life insurance to name a few. We are happy to talk flexible working.

We believe that diversity and inclusion make the difference. Only when people with diverse backgrounds come together, contribute their various experiences and attitudes, and look at challenges from different perspectives, will creative innovations and ground-breaking solutions be created. We celebrate diversity and we actively promote an inclusive work environment. In the UK we have an active Diversity & Inclusion Strategy Action Group and work closely with external partner Inclusive Employers. We are an equal opportunities employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard or reference to age, gender, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status and other protected characteristics. For more information please visit: https://www.basf.com/gb/en/careers/why-join-basf/basf-locally.html

Location: Littlehampton

Closing Date: 02.08.2024

About Us

Operating in the UK since 1880, BASF currently has 11 locations across the UK, from Littlehampton on the South Coast of England to Callanish on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. Our UK headquarters are in Stockport, Greater Manchester and that’s where our sales and services teams are based. From our six manufacturing sites across the UK, we supply raw materials to most industries including agriculture, automotive, chemicals, construction, energy and pharmaceuticals. You can find out a bit more about where over 700 people from our amazing BASF team work here https://www.basf.com/gb/en/who-we-are/BASF-in-the-United-Kingdom.html