Maintenance Engineer in England

Infinity Employment are currently seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer with strong mechanical and electrical expertise for an industry leading specialist, manufacturing precision components for aviation, tooling, automotive, F1 and defence industries. This role requires someone with strong maintenance engineering experience and the ability to cover a broad remit of maintenance activities including mechanical and electrical biases. The successful candidate will need to work on their own initiative creating structures and processes. This is a new role and so offers the opportunity for the ideal candidate to make it their own.

The primary purpose of this role is to ensure the reliable, safe, and efficient operation of all production equipment, CNC machinery, and facility infrastructure. The Maintenance Engineer supports continuous production by conducting preventive and reactive maintenance, troubleshooting machine faults, and implementing improvements that minimise downtime and support precision manufacturing standards.

Salary: £35,000 - £45,000

Hours: 40-hour week (Days)

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and deliver planned preventative maintenance schedule.
• Diagnose faults to minimize unplanned downtime.
• Carry out corrective maintenance, part replacement, and adjustments to maintain precision and repeatability.
• Monitor machine performance, patterns, breakdown trends and recommend reliability improvements.
• Support process optimization projects, machine upgrades, and tooling improvements.
• Work with production to identify root causes of recurring issues and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, service logs, calibration certificates (where applicable) and spare parts tracking.
• Ensure all maintenance activities comply with ISO standards (in line with site certifications).
• Support audits by providing maintenance history and compliance documentation.
• Managing contractors on site ensuring that RAMs are in place.
• Manage the installation of new equipment.
• Carry out weekly fire alarm checks.
• Apply safe working practices and promote a proactive maintenance, safety and environmental culture by participating in the health and safety committee and undertaking actions that are identified (within the Maintenance Engineer remit) to ensure the site remains a safe place to work.
• Be the main point of contact for activity undertaken by external contractors required to support the maintenance of the site that falls outside of the roles remit.

Skills & Experience

• Experience as a Maintenance Engineer with precision engineering, machining, or similar manufacturing environment.
• Strong Mechanical and electrical skills - ability to read engineering drawings and schematics.
• Experience with CNC machines is desirable, particularly Fanuc and Heidenhain controls.
• Ability to fault-find using schematics and technical documentation.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Experience of working in a standalone role is preferable, but management of a large team will be considered.
• Experience in TPM, lean manufacturing or continuous improvement initiatives.

Personal attributes

• Health and safety focussed with good housekeeping.
• Practical hands‑on problem solver with strong attention to detail.
• Proactive, reliable, and able to work in a fast‑paced SME environment.
• Good communicator who can work cross‑functionally with operators, engineers, and management.
• Committed to maintaining high standards of precision, safety, and machine availability.
• Positive attitude.

Benefits

• Company pension - company contribution at 5%.
• Health cash plan system.
• Employee assistance program.
• Holidays increase with service from 5 complete years.
• Social activities, e.g. Christmas party.