At a Glance
- Tasks: Perform preventive maintenance and troubleshoot equipment breakdowns in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
- Company: Join a global manufacturer in the beautiful Scottish Borders, just an hour from Edinburgh.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, shift allowance, career development, and a supportive team culture.
- Other info: Flexible rotating shifts with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring machinery operates efficiently and reliably.
- Qualifications: Engineering qualification or apprenticeship with experience in maintenance engineering.
The predicted salary is between 35000 - 45000 £ per year.
Shift Maintenance Engineer
Location: Jedburgh, Scottish Borders – on‑site rotating shift role. Excellent salary and benefits plus shift allowance.
Based in the beautiful Scottish Borders (circa 1 hour south of Edinburgh), GRW Talent’s client is a well‑established global manufacturer providing solutions to the power, telecom and data centre markets.
The group is undergoing extensive growth and change right now, and they are currently looking to recruit a Shift Maintenance Engineer.
Reporting into the Engineering Lead, the Maintenance Shift Engineer is responsible for performing scheduled preventive maintenance, responding promptly to equipment breakdowns, and maintaining accurate maintenance records.
Working closely with the Plant Leader and using the CMMS, this role ensures that machinery and systems operate safely, efficiently and reliably to support optimal production output.
Responsibilities
- Preventive Maintenance – carry out routine, scheduled maintenance tasks on machinery and plant equipment, following established PM schedules.
- Breakdown Response & Troubleshooting – respond quickly to unplanned breakdowns, diagnosing faults and implementing effective repairs.
- Collaboration with Plant Leader to coordinate maintenance activities around production demands & communicate about upcoming PM tasks potential downtime.
- Update the CMMS promptly with completed work orders, spare parts usage, and any new asset information and maintain accurate records of all maintenance activities.
- Spare Parts & Inventory Management – monitor inventory levels, notifying procurement or management when stock replenishment is needed.
- Continuous Improvement & Reliability – recommend and implement improvements and assist in root cause analyses to address recurrent failures and develop solutions.
Qualifications
You should have a recognised engineering qualification and/or time‑served apprenticeship in Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi‑Skilled Maintenance Engineering with experience working as a Maintenance Engineer (or similar) in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Familiarity with PLCs, hydraulics, pneumatics, or other relevant systems is beneficial.
You’ll need to be competent in root cause analysis, fault‑finding, and repair techniques with a solid understanding of predictive and preventive maintenance philosophies.
In this role you’ll need to have flexibility to work a rotating 12‑hour shift pattern, 3 on, 3 off days and nights.
Benefits
Your excellent base salary is supplemented by a good range of benefits, career development, training and the chance to join a friendly and committed team and culture.
To apply for this position please send your resume to our recruitment partner Katie Hydes at GRW Talent.
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