Maintenance Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Derby; On-site; GBP 51,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Maintenance Engineer to join their dynamic team in Derby. This role involves maintaining a variety of PLC-controlled machinery, ensuring maximum efficiency in a fast-paced environment. The company is a leader in the automotive sector, known for its commitment to quality and innovation. With a strong focus on employee development, they offer extensive training and opportunities for career progression. If you are passionate about engineering and eager to contribute to a world-class manufacturing process, this is the perfect opportunity for you to thrive and grow.

Benefits

Paid overtime (up to 2x)

Bonus scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Pension contribution up to 18%

Life assurance

Private healthcare

Massive training budget

Routes for progression

Good culture within departments

Investment for project development

Qualifications

• Experience in maintaining PLC controlled machinery.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct planned preventative maintenance and react to breakdowns.
• Involvement in project work across the production line.

Skills

Multiskilled experience

Mechanical bias

Electrical bias

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Education

Apprentice trained

NVQ level 3 qualified

Job description

Maintenance Engineer, £50300, Derby

Package includes: paid overtime (up to 2x) and a bonus scheme included. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and possibility to earn extra holiday with overtime hours. Pension contribution of up to 18%, life assurance, and private healthcare.

3 shift rotation: 6-2, 2-10, 10-6

About the client

ATA are supporting a world-class OEM in the automotive industry, who are looking to add multiple maintenance engineers to an already extensive team of over 3000 current employees over 2 sites. The client is one of the greatest producers in the automotive industry, producing over 5 million vehicles within 3 decades showcasing efficiency and production quality of the highest degree. The business is going through continuous growth, with a turnover of 2.9 billion euros through 2024 across the 2 sites. This is a brilliant opportunity to join the leader of automotive engineering and to be involved in the most efficient manufacturing procedures around the world.

What you’ll be doing

As a maintenance engineer with our client, you will be responsible for maintaining a wide range of PLC controlled machinery, specifically set up to achieve maximum efficiency.

Further responsibilities include:

• Conducting planned preventative maintenance
• Reacting to breakdowns to ensure smooth and quick production
• Project involvement across all parts of the production line, due to the size of the business.
• Root cause analysis and continuous improvement, to further improve efficiency
• Installation work dependent on department within the site, including machine installations.

What the client is looking for

To become a maintenance engineer with our client, you will need to be able to handle a fast-paced environment and all that comes with maintaining world-class equipment in a demanding industry. You will need to adopt a learning mindset and look to improve your skills through the first-class training provided by our client, alongside a proactive state of mind and a fix right first-time mentality.

• Multiskilled experience with either mechanical or electrical bias.
• Apprentice trained and NVQ level 3 qualified.
• Preferably some factory experience, but other industry experience is accepted alongside armed forces experience.

Benefits on offer

As a maintenance engineer with our client, you will be eligible for:

• Massive training budget aimed at producing high-level engineers who are multiskilled and specialists in the departments that they are involved in.
• For candidates with an eye for leadership roles, routes for progression are available based on a meritocratic system of reward.
• Good culture within each department, with an average length of service of over 15 years, with no compulsory redundancies ever being made.
• Pledged investment of over £300 million, providing opportunity for project development/management for the different departments within the business.

If you think you are the right maintenance engineer for this market-leading tier 1 supply, please press apply or directly email me a copy of your CV to [e-mail]

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