Job Details

Position: Furnace Technician

Location: Halesowen, West Midlands

Shifts: Rotating - Week 1 - 06:00 - 16:00 Monday to Thursday, Week 2 - 06:00 - 14:00 Monday to Friday

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Salary: c£35K, including shift allowance

Nicholas Associates have an excellent opportunity for a Furnace Technician, to work on-site for a client based in Halesowen.

Along with the Maintenance Management team you will plan and supervise the workload of the furnace team, contractors and assist with the training of apprentices. You will deputise for the Maintenance Management Team when required.

Responsibilities:

• Improve furnace reliability, plan and review furnace survey schedules, plan and organise and oversee furnace instrument calibrations. Carry out thermocouple calibration and replacement programs.
• Preventative maintenance program.
• On a daily basis, check all furnaces are working correctly. Check all qualified furnaces are operating within the specifications of their qualification and sign off the charts, maintain a daily log reporting the above.
• Attend to and repair any fault that may occur on a furnace.
• On a weekly basis carry out system accuracy tests (SATS) on all qualified furnaces and produce documents to log results.
• On a monthly basis carry out preventative maintenance checks on a rolling program on all furnaces.
• Plan and review all furnace instrument calibration sign certificates and keep documents in a register.
• Manufacture, calibrate and re-calibrate Type R thermocouples and keep in a register. Replace Type K thermocouples and keep in a register. Issue certificates of calibration to each surveyed furnace, to each thermocouple Type R and Type K and for each furnace denoting where each thermocouple is located its date of issue and the date showing next calibration due.
• Keep & maintain all calibration records.

About Us

We are dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive community. In line with our Diversity and Inclusion policy, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. As a Disability Confident Employer, and part of the Nicholas Associates Group, we are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities, and we're happy to discuss flexible working options.

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