Maintenance Engineer

Traffic Generation Marketing; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive supplier in Birmingham is hiring a Maintenance Engineer to join their established team. The role focuses on electrical and mechanical breakdown maintenance for a variety of machinery, emphasizing continuous improvement and urgent problem-solving. An ideal candidate will have strong engineering qualifications and flexibility for shift work, ensuring production efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience as a multi-skilled maintenance engineer or technician.
• Ability to carry out repairs on capital equipment.
• Flexibility toward continental shift work.

Responsibilities

• Provide electrical and mechanical breakdown maintenance.
• React to urgent breakdowns, minimizing machine downtime.
• Follow PPMs to service and inspect equipment.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Mechanical fault finding

PLC fault finding

Interpret electrical drawings

Interpret mechanical drawings

Education

Recognized qualification in mechanical or electrical engineering

Apprentice trained

Job description

Due to continued growth, a tier one automotive supplier based in Birmingham is hiring for a maintenance engineer to join their well established team. With a superb manufacturing facility that includes a variety of automated and semi-automated machinery, this role offers a ton of training and personal development, and fosters a fantastic work culture where everyone supports each other to get the job done.

Working across a continental shift pattern of 4 on 4 off, you’ll be at the forefront of tackling urgent breakdowns, as well as continuous improvement / PPM’s to ensure the machinery and production run smoothly.

Responsibilities for the maintenance engineer include -

- To provide both electrical and mechanical breakdown maintenance to a range of machinery that includes presses, pneumatic tooling, material handling systems, robots, and much more
- Reacting to urgent breakdowns, ensuring machinedowntime is kept to a minimum
- PLC fault finding and interrogation to trace back faults
- Ensure adequate spares and parts are ordered correctly
- Following PPM’s to ensure all equipment is routinely serviced and inspected
- Supporting the maintenance manager with facilitating the in houseCMMS

To be successful in this role of maintenance engineer, we’re looking for -

-Previous experience as a multi skilled maintenance engineer or maintenance technician
- Apprentice trained, and hold a recognized qualification in either mechanical or electrical engineering
- Be able to carry out repairs and breakdown response to capital equipment
- Understand and interpretelectrical & mechanical drawings
-Flexibility towards working continental shifts