Industrial Maintenance Tech — Multi-Skilled (Days)

Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd on behalf of a leading manufacturing client in Liverpool seeks a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician (days only). The role covers mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation systems.

You will maintain plant reliability, diagnose faults, deliver planned and reactive maintenance, and support continuous improvement initiatives. A practical, hands-on engineer who can operate across disciplines is required.

Qualifications

• Apprentice-trained or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in process manufacturing or similar environment preferred.
• Demonstrable cross-disciplinary experience across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation.
• Strong background in pumps, valves, bearings, seals and gearboxes.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned, preventive and corrective maintenance across mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation assets.
• Diagnose and resolve complex plant faults using structured fault-finding and root cause analysis techniques.
• Respond to breakdowns to restore plant safely and minimise production downtime.
• Identify long-term corrective actions to prevent recurring equipment failures.
• Prioritise maintenance activities based on operational risk and production requirements.
• Develop and implement maintenance plans in coordination with production.
• Support shutdowns, outages and engineering improvement projects.
• Maintain and repair pumps, valves, bearings, seals, gearboxes, pipework, hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Undertake electrical maintenance on motors, drives and control panels where trained.
• Carry out instrumentation calibration, loop checking and fault diagnosis.
• Support PLCs, control systems and industrial networks fault finding.

Skills

Multidisciplinary engineering

Root cause analysis

Planned maintenance

Hands-on engineer

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Apprentice-trained or equivalent

Tools

PLCs

Control panels

Industrial networks

Vibration analysis

Thermography

Job description

Adepto Technical Recruitment Ltd on behalf of a leading manufacturing client in Liverpool seeks a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician (days only). The role covers mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control and automation systems.

You will maintain plant reliability, diagnose faults, deliver planned and reactive maintenance, and support continuous improvement initiatives. A practical, hands-on engineer who can operate across disciplines is required.