Steel Rolling Mill Maintenance Engineer
Smethwick
£35,000+ DOE (Depending on Experience)
Monday to Friday | 40 Hours Per Week (Days or Nights)
The Best Connection is recruiting an experienced Steel Rolling Mill Maintenance Engineer on behalf of our client in Smethwick.
The Role
You’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving rolling mill machinery, ensuring maximum reliability, performance, and safety across the site.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance on rolling mill equipment.
- Diagnose and repair faults on gearboxes, bearings, conveyors, hydraulic systems, rollers, drives, and associated machinery.
- Respond quickly to breakdowns to minimise production downtime.
- Inspect, overhaul, align, and rebuild mechanical equipment.
- Support installations, machinery upgrades, and continuous improvement projects.
- Complete maintenance records and assist with root cause analysis.
- Manage critical spare parts and liaise with suppliers to source replacement components.
- Ensure all work is carried out safely and in line with Health & Safety and LOTO procedures.
- Participate in planned shutdowns and major maintenance projects when required.
What We're Looking For
- Experience maintaining heavy industrial machinery within a steel mill, rolling mill, foundry, metal processing, or similar environment.
- Strong mechanical fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of gearboxes, bearings, shafts, couplings, hydraulics, conveyors, and mechanical drives.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
- Experience with both planned preventative and breakdown maintenance.
- Mechanical Engineering qualification or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary of £35,000+ DOE
- Weekly Pay
- Company Pension & Insurance
- Accrued Paid Holiday
- Excellent Long-Term Career Opportunity
If you're a skilled Mechanical Maintenance Engineer looking for your next challenge within a busy manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Steel Rolling Mill Maintenance Engineer in Smethwick employer: THE BEST CONNECTION GROUP
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