Electrical & Hydraulic Maintenance Engineer - Shifts

Hewett Recruitment

Droitwich Spa

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 48,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + 19.75% shiftallow
Company pension
Life assurance
Employee Assistance Programme
Ongoing training and development
Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Hewett Recruitment is seeking an experienced Maintenance Engineer (Electrical & Hydraulic) to support a high-volume automotive manufacturing site in the UK. You will diagnose faults across electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems and perform reactive and planned maintenance on injection moulding machinery and robotics.

The role requires hands-on experience with PLC-controlled equipment, schematics reading, and a continental shift pattern (12-hour days and nights).

Qualifications

  • Strong electrical fault-finding experience in manufacturing.
  • Hands-on experience maintaining hydraulic systems.
  • Experience maintaining automated production machinery.
  • Knowledge of PLC-controlled equipment and fault diagnosis.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical faults.
  • Carry out reactive and planned preventative maintenance.
  • Maintain injection moulding machinery, robotics and automation equipment.
  • Fault-find on PLC-controlled machinery and electrical systems.
  • Diagnose hydraulic pumps, valves, cylinders and control systems.
  • Support root cause analysis and reliability improvements.
  • Help improve equipment uptime, OEE and production efficiency.
  • Support machinery upgrades and engineering improvement projects.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding
Hydraulic systems maintenance
Automated production machinery
PLC fault diagnosis
Read schematics

Education

NVQ Level 3 / HNC / HND / City & Guilds or equivalent

Tools

Siemens PLC
Allen-Bradley PLC
Mitsubishi PLC

Job description

Hewett Recruitment is seeking an experienced Maintenance Engineer (Electrical & Hydraulic) to support a high-volume automotive manufacturing site in the UK. You will diagnose faults across electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems and perform reactive and planned maintenance on injection moulding machinery and robotics.

The role requires hands-on experience with PLC-controlled equipment, schematics reading, and a continental shift pattern (12-hour days and nights).

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