Maintenance technician, £50430, Derby, Shifts: Monday - Friday (Early, lates, nights)

Package includes Annual bonus, 33 Days holiday, pension up to 12%, life assurance, private healthcare, Company sick pay, free workwear.

ATA are working exclusively with Toyota Motor Manufacturing at their world class facility in Derbyshire.  We are supporting them on a recruitment drive to add maintenance technicians to their team due to requirement to increase their workforce throughout 2025. The groups UK arm is a critical part in the company wheel and currently operates as their flag ship site in Europe accounting for an impressive £3B of the groups £210B annual turnover.

The company are world renowned within its sector and often pioneers new technology which keeps them ahead of its competitors. This has recently included an investment of over £300million across both sites which will allow for a tremendous period of growth cementing their foothold within a marketspace they excel within.

Paint department

Home to waterfalls & robotics the paint department is the cleanest manufacturing shop in the factory. It's also the most secret department. We can't tell you much, but what we can tell you is…

Transported from the body shop through a conveyor transport system, the cars shell enters the paint department. In the pursuit of outstanding quality, the TMUK paint shop follow a rigorous process to ensure every corolla that leaves the factory, is leaving with a meticulous paint job. To do this, the cars will be cleaned, primed, and sealed before the robots get to work applying the vibrant paint. Each car is painted individually with its designated colour, before being baked at 200 degrees for 20 minutes to increase durability.

What does a day to day of a maintenance technician within the paint department look like?

As a maintenance technician you will be responsible for you will be responsible for maintaining a variety of PLC controlled equipment production machinery.

Responsibilities will include:

-        Planned preventative maintenance.

-        Reacting to breakdowns

-        Electrical and Mechanical Fault finding

-        Swapping components like for like.

-        Completing continuous improvement activity

What do the paint department look for?

As with all TMUKs departments, a mind set for Continuous improvement (Kaizen) and adopting a fix right first-time culture is essential. Toyota like their maintenance technicians to be comfortable working with a fast-paced environment and enjoy the buzz of a busy factory.

-        Either strong mechanical, electrical or multiskilled knowledge.

-        Fault finding

-        Happy to work across a three-shift pattern, including night shift.

-        Flexibility to complete the occasional overtime shift.

The paint department will consider maintenance technicians from any environment and background, including armed forces.

What's in it for you?

Working for TMUK you will be trusted and empowered to make decisions and to make you feel part of the team, you will be given you responsibility on day one.  TMUK will give you the opportunity to develop and broaden your skills to help you thrive in a demanding fast-moving environment.

This is underpinned by their fantastic training offering. During your first three months, they will assess your skills in each of the following areas:

Electrical, Mechanical, Fluid power systems
Toyota maintenance systems
PLC programming
Injection Moulding (Department dependent)
Robotics programming

They will then tailor a training programme specific for you in the aim to get you competent in all these areas.

TMUK provide a vessel for learning, not only will you receive the above fantastic technical training, but their maintenance engineers are also provided with the opportunity to further their career by receiving further qualifications.

If you think you are the right maintenance engineer for this market leader, please press apply, call Ashton on (phone number removed), or email your CV too   

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ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation