Trainee Maintenance Engineer
£31,000 per annum | 39 hours per week | Permanent | Full-Time
Vanta Staffing are currently recruiting for a Trainee Maintenance Engineer to join a busy manufacturing facility in Princes Risborough.
This is an excellent opportunity for an engineering professional looking to develop their maintenance skills and build a long-term career within a manufacturing environment.
Working alongside an experienced Lead Engineer, you will receive hands-on training while supporting the maintenance, reliability and continuous improvement of production equipment.
The Role
As a Trainee Maintenance Engineer, you will:
- Assist with the maintenance and repair of production machinery
- Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) as scheduled
- Inspect equipment and identify potential faults, safety risks or deterioration in performance
- Assist with logical fault finding and corrective maintenance
- Maintain accurate machine maintenance records and logs
- Support the Maintenance & Facilities team with various tasks
- Work closely with Production and Maintenance teams to minimise downtime
- Ensure equipment is safely returned to production following maintenance
- Complete appropriate risk assessments before carrying out maintenance work
- Follow all Health & Safety procedures, Safe Systems of Work (SSOW) and Risk Assessments
- Identify opportunities for machine, process and maintenance improvements
- Develop engineering knowledge through practical training, workshops and on-the-job learning
- Support a culture of Continuous Improvement within the Maintenance team
Technical Skills & Experience
The ideal candidate will have an engineering or mechanical background, with some experience or understanding of:
- Engineering apprenticeship or relevant engineering training
- Reading electrical and mechanical drawings
- Logical and structured fault finding
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
- Pneumatics
- Inverter, servo and DC drives
- Electrical circuits ranging from 415V to 24VDC
- Basic fabrication
- Facilities/Maintenance environments
- Maintenance best practice and Continuous Improvement
Not every skill is essential at trainee level, but candidates should have a strong engineering foundation and a genuine willingness to learn and develop.
Personal Attributes
We're looking for someone who is:
- Self-motivated and keen to learn
- Technically and mechanically minded
- A logical and confident problem solver
- Highly attentive to detail
- Flexible and adaptable
- Safety-conscious
- A strong communicator and team player
- Comfortable working in a busy manufacturing environment
- Passionate about developing a long-term career in engineering
What's on Offer?
- £31,000 per annum
- 39 hours per week
- Permanent, full-time position
- Full training and development
- Hands-on engineering experience
- Opportunity to develop into a fully experienced Maintenance Engineer
- Long-term career progression
- Support and mentoring from an experienced engineering team
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Trainee Maintenance Engineer in Princes Risborough employer: Vanta Staffing
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