At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead maintenance of heavy machinery and ensure operational reliability in a dynamic mill environment.
- Company: Established feed mill with a strong engineering team and supportive culture.
- Benefits: Permanent role, Monday-to-Friday hours, extensive benefits, and career progression opportunities.
- Other info: Ideal for engineers seeking a stable daytime schedule without night shifts.
- Why this job: Join a hands-on role making a real impact on plant performance and safety.
- Qualifications: Experience in heavy machinery maintenance or related engineering fields required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
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.
Working Hours:
- Monday to Thursday: 8:00am–5:00pm
- Friday: 8:00am–4:30pm
- 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
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?
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. If you're based around Ashbourne, Derby, Uttoxeter, Belper, Matlock or the surrounding area, we would like to hear from you.
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