Plant Fitter

Breedon Group Plc

The Role

Overview

Perform preventive and corrective mechanical maintenance on plant equipment.

Key Responsibilities

  • mechanical maintenance
  • preventive maintenance
  • reactive maintenance
  • welding
  • fabrication

Tasks

-Carrying out planned, preventive and reactive mechanical maintenance to production plant and equipment. -Welding and burning for fabrication and maintenance.

Requirements

  • conveyors
  • pumps
  • heavy plant
  • fault finding
  • apprenticeship
  • driving licence

What You Bring

-Specifically, removing, repairing and re assembling conveyors, rollers, and side skirts. Knowledge of pumps, motors, pulleys, bearings, shafts, gearboxes, pneumatics, and hydraulics is essential for this role. -Essential experience working on heavy plant, fixed and/or mobile. -Experienced in the use of workshop equipment. -Mechanical fault finding. -Competency in basic Multi Skilling. -Full driving licence -Good understanding of health safety and environmental impacts of role. -Completed a recognized mechanical engineering apprenticeship. -Use of pulling and lifting equipment. -Experience and understanding of mechanical fitting and maintenance of equipment including conveyors, pumps, pipes, valves, filter systems, pneumatics hydraulics bearings, gear boxes etc.

Benefits

-Aviva Pension scheme and Sharesave scheme. -Employee assistance programme and access to employee benefits platform for discounts on various high street shops and brands. -Comprehensive training and development opportunities. -25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with an option to purchase additional leave. -Life Assurance.

The Company

About Breedon Group Plc

-Born from centuries‑old quarrying at Breedon on the Hill, the group surged into modernity after 2008, reshaping UK and Irish markets through savvy acquisitions. -With a vertically‑integrated model, it pulls raw aggregates straight through to finished products and surfacing services, serving projects across infrastructure, housing and industrial sectors. -In recent years its strategic beachhead in the US—through the acquisition of BMC and Lionmark in Missouri—has positioned it for North American growth. -Typical projects range from major roadworks and airport surfacing to residential foundations and industrial flooring. -Standout products include its flagship Golden Amber Gravel (a Royal‑Warranted driveway gravel) and specialist speedway shale used on international tracks.

Sector Specialisms

Infrastructure

Housebuilding

Roads

General Construction

Surfacing Solutions

Highway Maintenance

Traffic Management Services

Agricultural Nutrition

Airport Projects

Local Government Projects