Senior Plant Technician
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Responsible for maintaining plant machinery, utilities, and food safety compliance while ensuring minimal downtime and supporting production teams with troubleshooting.
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Job Summary
The Senior Plant Technician is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and supporting the efficient operation of plant machinery, utilities, boilers, refrigeration systems, compressors, pumps, chillers, pasteurisation / processing equipment, filling / packing lines, and related factory equipment.
The role ensures equipment reliability, production continuity, food safety compliance, and safe plant operations within Camelicious factory operations.
Plant Machinery Maintenance
- Perform preventive, corrective, and breakdown maintenance for plant machinery, processing lines, packing machines, pumps, motors, valves, conveyors, and related production equipment.
- Diagnose mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and utility-related faults and take corrective action within approved technical scope.
- Support production teams during machine start-up, changeover, cleaning, shutdown, and emergency breakdowns.
- Ensure minimum downtime through timely troubleshooting and escalation of critical technical issues.
Utilities, Boilers & Refrigeration
- Monitor and maintain boilers, steam lines, refrigeration systems, chillers, compressors, cold rooms, pumps, water systems, and other plant utilities.
- Conduct routine checks on pressure, temperature, vibration, leakage, lubrication, and operating parameters.
- Ensure utilities are available and operating safely to support production, storage, and quality requirements.
- Coordinate with external service providers for specialised maintenance, calibration, inspection, or statutory servicing where required.
Preventive Maintenance & Documentation
- Execute preventive maintenance plans as per schedule and update maintenance records accurately.
- Maintain equipment history, breakdown reports, spare parts usage, job cards, inspection checklists, and shift handover notes.
- Identify recurring issues and recommend technical improvements to improve machine reliability.
- Assist in maintaining critical spare parts lists and informing Stores / Procurement of technical requirements.
Food Safety, Hygiene & HSE
- Follow food safety, hygiene, GMP, HACCP, and company HSE requirements while working in production and utility areas.
- Ensure maintenance work does not create contamination risk, unsafe conditions, or production quality issues.
- Apply lockout / tagout, confined space, hot work, chemical handling, and other safety controls where applicable.
- Report unsafe equipment, near misses, leakages, abnormal machine conditions, and potential breakdown risks immediately.
Technical Support & Supervision
- Guide junior technicians and machine operators on basic troubleshooting, safe equipment handling, and operational care.
- Support installation, commissioning, modification, and improvement projects.
- Coordinate with Production, Quality, Stores, and Maintenance teams for smooth maintenance execution.
- Perform any other technical duties assigned by the Maintenance Manager / Plant Management.
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