At a Glance
- Tasks: Service and optimise production machinery while driving continuous improvement.
- Company: Established manufacturing business with a strong engineering team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, overtime opportunities, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Great opportunity for career growth and mentoring apprentices.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on production efficiency.
- Qualifications: Experience with moulding machinery and strong fault-finding skills required.
The predicted salary is between 30708 - 40000 £ per year.
We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established manufacturing business seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful operation where you'll play a key role in maintaining equipment reliability, supporting production performance, and driving continuous improvement.
The Role
As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for servicing, fault‑finding, repairing, and optimising a range of production equipment.
Working closely with Production and Engineering teams, you'll help maximise machine uptime, improve operational efficiency, and support ongoing improvement projects across the site.
Key Responsibilities
- Service, maintain, and repair production machinery and associated equipment
- Diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical faults
- Complete planned preventative maintenance, asset care, and condition monitoring activities
- Set up, adjust, and optimise manufacturing equipment
- Support production teams to maximise equipment performance and minimise downtime
- Drive and support continuous improvement projects Assist with annual maintenance and overhaul programmes
- Ensure compliance with GMP, quality, health, and safety standards
- Train and develop colleagues in machinery operation, fault finding, and maintenance techniques
- Mentor apprentices and support their development
- Work collaboratively with Production and Engineering teams to achieve operational targets
Requirements
- Experience working with moulding machinery
- Previous Maintenance Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong mechanical and electrical fault‑finding skills
- Ability to diagnose faults down to component level
- Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance
- Knowledge of production machinery setup and optimisation
- PLC fault‑finding experience
- Experience of moulding processes and process optimisation
- Understanding of mould and tooling change procedures
- Time‑served Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G, NVQ, SVQ, or equivalent)
- PLC programming experience
- Previous experience training, coaching, or mentoring colleagues
- Overtime available with enhanced rates
- Bonus
- Supportive engineering and production environment
If you are an experienced Maintenance Engineer ready for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.
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Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position.
No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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