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Are you an experienced Senior Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer looking for a permanent Monday-to-Friday day role working with heavy industrial machinery?
We are recruiting for a Senior Engineer to join the engineering team at an established feed mill in Ashbourne .
This is a genuine heavy machinery engineering position where you will take a leading role in maintaining plant reliability, reducing downtime and ensuring the mill's engineering systems remain safe, compliant and operational.
This is a feed mill engineering environment not a food production or kill factory.
Working Hours Monday to Thursday: 8:00am5:00pm
Friday: 8:00am4:30pm
42 hours per week
Days only
Monday-to-Friday working
Some on-call support may occasionally be required
For experienced engineers looking to move away from nights, rotating shifts or continental patterns, this offers an attractive permanent weekday engineering schedule .
The Role Working as part of the Mill Engineering team, you will help ensure the site's heavy machinery and engineering infrastructure operate safely, reliably and efficiently.
Your responsibilities will include:
Ensuring an effective planned maintenance programme is in place and adhered to
Reducing production downtime through preventative maintenance and effective engineering response
Supporting and maintaining an effective breakdown call-out plan
Providing regular reports on mill maintenance performance and engineering KPIs
Maintaining pressure systems in accordance with legal and insurance requirements
Supporting maintenance purchasing and engineering stock control
Working within agreed maintenance budgets
Maintaining and administering the site's Permit to Work system
Ensuring maintenance teams and contractors comply fully with health and safety requirements
Supporting contractor management across engineering activities
Identifying reliability issues and opportunities for engineering improvement
Monitoring and controlling environmental risks associated with engineering activities
Ensuring colleagues understand their responsibilities under site risk-management procedures
Supporting the wider engineering team with complex breakdowns and maintenance requirements
Heavy Machinery Engineering This is a practical, hands-on engineering role within a working mill environment.
You will be working around large industrial machinery, motors, drives, conveyors, mechanical systems, process equipment and associated plant infrastructure .
We are particularly interested in engineers who are comfortable operating within a heavy industrial environment and who understand the importance of plant reliability, preventative maintenance and safe systems of work.
What We're Looking For We would particularly like to hear from experienced engineers with backgrounds in:
Heavy Machinery Maintenance
Mechanical Engineering
Multi-Skilled Maintenance
Industrial Engineering
Process Engineering
Milling
Bulk Handling
Agricultural Engineering
Manufacturing
Quarrying
Recycling
Materials Handling
Other heavy industrial environments
You should be an experienced engineer with strong practical fault-finding and maintenance skills.
For this senior-level opportunity, you should also be comfortable:
Taking ownership of engineering problems
Prioritising maintenance activity
Supporting other engineers
Coordinating contractors
Working with permit-to-work systems
Maintaining high health and safety standards
Identifying opportunities to improve plant reliability
Communicating effectively with operational and engineering teams
Candidates with transferable heavy engineering experience from the Armed Forces are also strongly encouraged to apply.
What's in it for you? You will join an established organisation offering an extensive employee benefits package alongside:
Monday-to-Friday working
Daytime hours
No regular night shifts
Permanent employment
Extensive employee benefits
Workplace pension
Life assurance
Employee wellbeing support
Learning and development opportunities
Long-term career progression
A varied senior engineering role
The opportunity to work with substantial heavy industrial machinery
Some benefits may be subject to eligibility or site-specific arrangements.
Why Apply? Monday to Friday | Days | Heavy Machinery | Permanent Role | Extensive Benefits | Established Engineering Team
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Maintenance Engineer who wants a hands-on role with responsibility for the reliability and performance of a working heavy industrial mill. xiskglj
If you're based around Ashbourne, Derby, Uttoxeter, Belper, Matlock or the surrounding area , we would like to hear from you.
Apply today for a confidential discussion.
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