At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide hands-on engineering support to improve machinery reliability and reduce downtime.
- Company: Join a dynamic manufacturing environment with strong long-term career prospects.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, opportunities for growth, and a supportive team culture.
- Other info: Work weekends with a focus on continuous improvement and teamwork.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a fast-paced production setting while honing your engineering skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in mechanical maintenance or related fields is essential.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Are you a mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer or Shift Engineer looking for a hands-on manufacturing maintenance role with strong long-term prospects?
We are recruiting for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to provide effective engineering support to a busy production environment.
This is a key role focused on improving equipment reliability, reducing downtime, supporting production performance and ensuring machinery operates safely, efficiently and to specification.
This opportunity would suit an engineer with experience in manufacturing, food production, FMCG, poultry, packaging, automated machinery, processing equipment or similar production environments.
The Role As Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, you will support the production team by responding quickly and safely to plant stoppages, breakdowns and equipment issues.
You will carry out planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, fault finding and continuous improvement activity across a range of production machinery.
The role will involve working with mechanical drive systems, hydraulics, pneumatics and automated equipment, while ensuring all engineering activity is accurately recorded through the PPM system.
You will play an important part in improving equipment availability, supporting OEE targets, reducing downtime and helping the factory achieve production and KPI targets.
Key Responsibilities Respond quickly and safely to plant stoppages, breakdowns and production equipment issues.
Carry out planned maintenance, reactive maintenance, fault finding and repairs on manufacturing machinery.
Maintain, adjust and repair equipment to ensure optimum performance and reliability.
Work on mechanical drive systems, hydraulics, pneumatics and associated production equipment.
Ensure machinery operates efficiently and meets required product specifications.
Support equipment availability, performance improvement and OEE targets.
Complete accurate engineering documentation, maintenance records and PPM paperwork using SAP.
Work closely with Engineering leadership, production teams and external engineers to support improvements.
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