Mobile Maintenance Engineer - Nights

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Come and join our brilliant Asset Care Team, based at either our Scunthorpe or Bradford site. We have an opening for an experienced, electrically biased Maintenance Engineer on nights.

All About Us

Barrett Steel is the UK\’s largest steel stockholder with over 150 years of heritage. Family owned, the group is made up of 26 sites and holds over 120,000 tonnes of steel stock. We are committed to providing innovative and exceptional service by continuously investing in the latest processing machinery and materials handling equipment. Customer needs and community support are at the heart of everything, ensuring Barrett Steel is always your local steel stockholder.

All About The Role

The purpose of this role is to support the engineering requirements of the organisation. You will be responsible, as part of a team, to ensure all mechanical and electrical engineering aspects of the company’s state‐of‐the‐art equipment. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced maintenance engineer, with an electrical bias, to join our team. This is a night shift role Sunday 10 pm to Friday 6 am.

Specific Tasks Include

• Support all mechanical and electrical engineering aspects of the company’s manufacturing equipment and facility services (planned & reactive).
• Routine maintenance of equipment, fault prevention, finding and repair of equipment and services.
• Assist in the development of processes and making recommendations on improvements, asset care and developing a lean culture within the business.
• Analyse equipment failures and suggest cost‑effective improvements.
• Support the development to support the implementation of PPM schedules and operating procedures.
• Support the development of the operators procedures and train them to carry out basic maintenance on the machines.
• Use of machinery on which you will be working, but not limited to: bandsaw and cold saws, drive shafts, drills, CNC machinery, machine tools, etc.

We Offer You

• Highly competitive salary depending on your experience.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• Life assurance.
• Company discount scheme for savings on retail and leisure.
• Access to health and wellbeing services.
• Barrett Steel pension.

All About You

You will have the passion, drive, and confidence to work within the business in a collaborative, creative way.

Essential Skills For The Role

• An Electrical Maintenance Engineering qualification or equivalent or a time‑served Apprenticeship NVQ Level 3.
• Experience of working in a machinery maintenance/heavy industry background with a very strong electrical bias.
• A documented history in CNC maintenance would be advantageous.
• A background in fault finding/rectification & competent mechanically, with experience of hydraulics & conveying systems.
• A full UK driving licence with no more than 6 points.
• The ability to travel across sites.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Contract
• Job function: Management and Manufacturing
• Industries: Repair and Maintenance

How It Feels to Work for Us

We provide a fantastic opportunity to work within a forward‑thinking organisation that is respected as the UK\’s leading steel stockholder. Our people are the driving force behind Barrett Steel, and we seek individuals who are passionate, hard‑working, ambitious and demonstrate a can‑do attitude to help us build and develop the business. Barrett Steel encourages innovative thinking and has an open door for people to lead and influence change.