Maintenance Engineer

TipTopJob; Halstead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular overtime

23 days holiday + bank holidays

Company performance bonus

Private healthcare

Job summary

TipTopJob is seeking a mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer to join our Halstead site in Essex. You will be responsible for all planned and reactive maintenance, plus project overhauls to keep production lines running smoothly.

Working in a small team, you’ll occasionally do overtime including Saturdays. The role suits someone with a mechanical engineering qualification, experience in heavier industrial plant, and a hands-on, hardworking approach in a dusty, wet environment.

Qualifications

• Mechanically biased engineer / plant fitter
• Experience working in a small team and willing to work Saturdays
• Strong team fit and hardworking mentality
• Comfortable in dusty, dirty, wet environments
• Experience in heavier industrial sectors
• Basic fabrication and fitting skills beneficial
• Experience fixing plant machinery and fleet equipment
• Holding mechanical engineering qualifications
• Must be able to drive due to site location (no public transport)

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all planned, reactive maintenance and project overhaul work
• Working in a small team and doing extra hours, Saturdays when needed
• Repairing production machinery, conveyors, industrial plant equipment, cranes, fleet vehicles
• Dealing with repairs on gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, bearings, shafts, motors, valves, hoses
• Basic electrical fault finding on 3-phase motors, VFDs, industrial controls
• Mechanical fabrication and fitting

Skills

Mechanical bias

Team player

Overtime willing

Industrial experience

Education

Mechanical engineering qualifications

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Halstead, Essex

GBP40,000:GBP45,000 + GBP5k Guaranteed Overtime

Monday:Friday 7am:4pm + 1 in 2 Saturdays (Paid at Overtime)

Benefits

• Regular Overtime Available
• 23 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• Company Performance Bonus, Private Healthcare

Our client is a leading industrial manufacturer, that values hard work, teamwork and developing people. Part of a UK group supplying into various different industry sectors, they are looking for an experience mechanical biased maintenance engineer to join their maintenance team

Role And Responsibilities As a Maintenance Engineer

• Responsible for all planned, reactive maintenance and project overhaul work
• Working in a small team of engineers, working extra hours to help out when needed
• Repairing production machinery, conveyors, industrial plant equipment, cranes, fleet vehicles
• Dealing with repairs on gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, bearings, shafts, motors, valves, hoses
• Basic electrical fault finding on 3:phase motors, VFDs, industrial controls
• Mechanical fabrication and fitting

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Must be a mechanically biased engineer / plant fitter
• Worked in a small team previously where everyone does extra hours to get the job done, helps out on Saturdays : if one person lets the team down, it lets everyone down
• Team fit really important, get stuck in, work hard mentality
• Comfortable working in a dusty, dirty, wet and messy environment
• Must have worked in a heavier industrial sector
• Basic fabrication and fitting skills would be beneficial
• Experience in fixing plant machinery, production and fleet equipment
• Hold on mechanical engineering qualifications
• Must be able to drive due to site location : no public transport access