Hands-On Maintenance Leader: PLC & Industrial Equipment

Mansell Recruitment Group; Sandy; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mansell Recruitment Group is recruiting an experienced Maintenance & Services Manager for a busy manufacturing site in the UK. This hands-on role focuses on keeping plant machinery reliable, performing planned maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvements across the site.

You will work closely with production and engineering teams, tackling planned and reactive maintenance, improving performance, and ensuring safety with Lockout/Tagout practices in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on maintenance engineering experience in manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Strong electrical and mechanical engineering skills.
• Experience with continuous-running production machinery and strict production schedules.
• Proven fault-finding capabilities on PLC systems and electrical networks.
• Qualification such as HNC/HND, City & Guilds or NVQ Level 3 in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering.
• Valid UK driving licence and IPAF desirable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on production machinery and plant equipment.
• Diagnose and rectify complex electrical and mechanical faults to minimise downtime.
• Fault find on PLC-controlled systems, motor control circuits, VSDs and three-phase systems.
• Maintain and repair mechanical systems including gearboxes, pumps and conveyors.
• Read and interpret electrical schematics and mechanical drawings.
• Identify opportunities for machinery improvements and maintain a safe work environment.

Skills

Hands-on maintenance engineering

Electrical & mechanical engineering

PLC fault finding

VSDs & motor control

Reading electrical schematics

Problem solving

Education

HNC/HND or City & Guilds equivalent

NVQ Level 3 apprenticeship

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

Job description

Mansell Recruitment Group is recruiting an experienced Maintenance & Services Manager for a busy manufacturing site in the UK. This hands-on role focuses on keeping plant machinery reliable, performing planned maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvements across the site.

You will work closely with production and engineering teams, tackling planned and reactive maintenance, improving performance, and ensuring safety with Lockout/Tagout practices in a fast-paced environment.