Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Job Title:  Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)

Reporting to: Maintenance Shift Leaders

We are looking for a proactive and skilled Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician (Mechanical Bias) to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation, reliability, and efficiency of our production equipment and facilities.

You will play a key role in diagnosing and repairing breakdowns, carrying out planned preventative maintenance, and contributing to continuous improvement projects across the site.

This is a full-time, permanent position, working shifts on a rotational basis (day and back shift). Salary Starting from £40,000 per annum, dependant on the experience.

About the Role:

Key responsibilities in this role will include:

• Carry out reactive and planned maintenance on a wide range of machinery and equipment.
• Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults and implement effective solutions.
• Conduct routine inspections, adjustments, and servicing to minimise downtime.
• Support installation, commissioning, and modification of plant equipment.
• Work closely with production teams to ensure equipment is safe, reliable, and efficient.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records using our CMMS and comply with health & safety standards.

About you:

The ideal candidate will have

• Time-served apprenticeship or recognised engineering qualification in Mechanical Engineering (with electrical knowledge).
• Proven experience in a multi-skilled maintenance role, ideally within manufacturing or production.
• Strong mechanical fault-finding and repair skills (steam systems, pneumatics, valves, pumps, gearboxes etc.).
• Basic electrical knowledge (motors, sensors, PLC awareness).
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and manuals.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive, hands-on approach.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.

If you’re a self-motivated Maintenance Technician with a mechanical background and a passion for problem-solving, we’d love to hear from you.

About Us

Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, applying the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.

Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.

We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at hr@johnstonsofelgin.com.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other role.

Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.

Closing date – Friday, 7 November 2025