Maintenance Engineer

MotionTech; Hinckley; Presencial; GBP 52.000 - 64.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Salary up to £58,000

Overtime opportunities

Structured technical training

Permanent contract

Descripción de la vacante

MotionTech is recruiting a maintenance engineer to join an on-site team in Hinckley, Leicestershire, working 12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends). You will maintain advanced automated material handling systems and respond quickly to faults to minimise downtime.

You will perform planned and reactive maintenance, fault-find across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment, and use CMMS to log activities and monitor performance.

Formación

• Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing.
• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems.
• Hands-on experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics.
• Comfortable working 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems.
• Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime.
• Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment.
• Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems.
• Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data.

Conocimientos

Maintenance fault-finding

12-hour shift experience

Logistics/automation experience

Conveyors and pneumatics familiarity

Educación

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical/Mechanical/Multi-Skilled Engineering

Herramientas

CMMS platforms

Descripción del empleo

If you're a maintenance engineer who thrives in technically advanced environments, this is a rare chance to work on some of the UK's most sophisticated automation systems.

Up to £58,000 (Inclusive of shift allowance) | Permanent | Hinckley, Leicestershire

12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights, including weekends)

Overtime opportunities on top of base package

Structured technical development and training

Exposure to advanced automation and robotics systems

Motiontech designs, installs, and maintains intelligent automation and material handling systems for major UK retail and logistics businesses. Their engineering teams keep high-availability, high-performance automated distribution operations running around the clock. It's hands-on, technically demanding work, and the investment in people matches the investment in kit.

You'll join an established maintenance team on-site in Hinckley, keeping cutting-edge automated material handling systems running at peak performance. Day to day, you'll split your time between planned preventative work and reactive fault-finding with the tools, systems, and team around you to do both properly.

You’ll:

• Deliver planned preventative maintenance across automated material handling systems
• Respond to breakdowns quickly, diagnosing and resolving faults to minimise downtime
• Fault-find on electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled equipment
• Maintain conveyors, motors, gearboxes, pneumatics, and automated handling systems
• Use the CMMS to log maintenance activity and track performance data

What you'll bring

Essential:

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering
• Proven maintenance experience in logistics, automation, FMCG, or manufacturing
• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical, mechanical, and PLC-controlled systems
• Hands-on experience with conveyors, drives, gearboxes, and pneumatics
• Comfortable working 12-hour rotating shifts including nights and weekends

Useful, not essential:

• Experience with CMMS platforms
• Previous work in a high-speed automated logistics environment
• Exposure to robotics or advanced sortation systems

Benefits & culture

• Financial: Up to £58,000 including shift allowance, plus overtime
• Development: Structured technical training with access to advanced automation systems
• Stability: Permanent role with a well-established automation business
• Environment: High-spec, technically varied site no two shifts are the same

Working arrangements

Location: Hinckley, Leicestershire | On-site Contract: Permanent | Full-time Shifts: 12-hour rotating days and nights, including weekends