Senior Plant Support Technician - (Refractory & Maintenance)

Job Title: Senior Plant Support Technician - (Refractory & Maintenance)

Location: Gent, Belgium

Contract: 12-month Fixed Term Contract (with potentially of becoming permanent)

Salary: €73,000

Hrs: 38hrs per week

Position Summary:

The Senior Plant Support Technician - Refractory & Maintenance plays a key role in supporting the daily operations of a heavy industrial or steel plant facility. This position assists in maintaining refractory systems, mechanical components, and contributes to plant safety, efficiency, and productivity. The role involves hands-on technical work, coordination with supervisors, and a strong focus on health, safety, and environmental (HSE) standards.

As the Senior Plant Support Technician, your key responsibilities would be:

• Operate and Maintain machinery, adhering to the sites strict health & safety standards.
• Coordinating maintenance tasks, including preventive and corrective actions and support the inspection, repair, and installation of refractory equipment.
• Operating plant equipment to ensure production schedules are met.
• Provide support during shutdowns, turnarounds, and emergency maintenance.
• Work closely with the plant management team to implement safety and operational improvements.
• Conduct regular safety checks and comply with all HSE protocols and reporting requirements.
• Ensures that the crew follows all Safety Management System (SMS) protocols.
• Leads safety briefings, audits, and risk assessments.
• Reports and documents incidents, near-misses, and hazards.
• Implements corrective and preventive actions based on safety findings.
• Assist in the coordination of on-site contractors as required.
• Implement cost saving opportunities, maintenance issues, quality issues, monitor of raw materials and inventory costs.
• Ensure customers are continuously informed on their order progress/customer operational activities.

As the Senior Plant Support Technician, you will have the following skills:

• Plant Operations and Production knowledge and experience - Experience of working in heavy industry (Quarrying, Aggregates, Asphalt, Steel)
• Ideally, have Refractory experience
• Must have Mechanical/Industrial Maintenance experience/knowledge
• Must have strong knowledge of plant safety practices and procedures
• Good IT skills
• Customer service as will be face to face with the Client on site daily.
• Flexible to be hands-on, operating plant equipment.
• Willingness to travel to other sites and respond to callouts/overtime as needed - driving licence required.