Location: South Marston Industrial Estate
Salary: £35,000 - £40,425 per annum
Working Days / Hours: 4 on / 4 off (includes weekends on a rota basis) from 6:30am to 6:30pm (Days)
Contract: Permanent
About the Maintenance team in Oxwash - come and join the washing revolution!
Our mission at Oxwash is to eliminate the impact of textile care on our planet and its people. As a part of our fast-growing Maintenance team in Swindon, you will be based at our flagship site, Big Blue I - the world’s first industrial-sized facility, operating with Net-Zero emissions (Scopes 1 & 2).
In 2024 we bought exciting new equipment to the centre of our mission, including a 5-metre Tunnel Washer, a HydRO Water Reclamation System, and enhanced dryers, irons and folders. The Maintenance team will play an integral role in ensuring maximum uptime and efficiency of the equipment in a site that operates 24/7.
So, if you are looking for a new challenge in a highly innovative and ambitious environment, you identify with our mission, and feel you’d fit perfectly then apply to work with us. You could be a part of the world’s first Certified B Corporation® carbon-neutral laundry service!

REQUIREMENTS

These are some of the key qualities and competencies required in this role:

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager - this role will perform both proactive and reactive maintenance tasks on the laundry equipment at Big Blue. You will be required to work in a highly automated environment and use your technical skills to ensure maximum uptime and efficiency of the equipment.

Your key responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Servicing & PPMs - regular servicing and planned preventative maintenance of the equipment throughout the facility including commercial and industrial washing machines, tumble driers, rotary irons, finishing and dosing machines.
• Fault Finding - proactively find and prevent faults occurring to equipment reducing breakages and downtime. Report any defects to the maintenance & site managers that could impact operations.
• In-House Engineering - provide a core competency of engineering skills and be responsible for maintaining machinery/equipment/the facility to a high standard whilst striving to minimise issues. Provide knowledge and input into continuous improvement of plant, machinery, and maintenance activities.
• Collaboration with external specialists - where specific knowledge/skills are required, you will be responsible for liaising with third parties to solve any issues with the hardware and plan for future installations with a maintenance mentality.
• Stock management - establishing the critical spares required, monitoring stock levels of spare parts and ordering items which have reached the ‘on-hand’ limit.
• Health and Safety - ensuring health and safety procedures are followed throughout the facility and improving processes over time.