Maintenance Engineer

ATA Recruitment Ltd; Huncoat; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Death in service

Job summary

ATA Recruitment Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Engineer for a market-leading furniture manufacturer in Accrington, Lancashire. The role offers a base salary of £40,000 and a 37.5-hour week with the possibility of overtime.

You will be part of a seven-engineer team, focusing mainly on preventive maintenance with reactive tasks as needed. The position covers a range of machinery including CNCs, saws, banders, spraying equipment and robotics, requiring proficiency in pneumatics, gearboxes,

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance within manufacturing environments.
• Proficient with mechanical and electrical components while following H&S regulations.
• Able to perform strip-downs, rebuilds and reactive maintenance.
• Welding experience desirable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM) on a range of machinery.
• Respond to and diagnose faults in production equipment.
• Utilise tablet-driven job tracking for maintenance activities.
• Ensure safe, compliant operation of electrical and mechanical systems.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Electrical maintenance

Hydraulics & pneumatics

Fault finding (PLC)

Team collaboration

Education

Electrical NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds

Tools

PLC control systems

Job description

Maintenance Engineer £40,000 base, Accrington, Lancashire.

DAYS – 37.5 hours a week.

Monday – Thursday 7am – 4pm

Friday 7am – 12:45pm

Overtime available at X1.33, holiday equivalent to 24 shifts off, pension, Death in service.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for aMaintenance Engineer to join the market leading manufacturer of furniture in the UK. This company supplies to the commercial industry, public sector, governmental frameworks and dealers across the country. You’ll be implemented into a team of 7 Engineers in total. Conducting mainly PPM work, but also reactive maintenance across all machinery within this site. The company product around 5000 units per week. The site is open Monday to Friday, with some potential project work at weekends. Manufacturing stops at 4pm all weekdays, bar Friday where it stops at 1pm.

The Role

As a maintenance engineer, you’ll work with a range of machinery including:

• CNC machines, saws, hedge banders, spraying equipment and robotics
• Sowing machines, steamers, boxing machines and conveyors throughout

Your focus will be30% reactiveand70% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. The role places a strong emphasis on preventative maintenance and repair. You’ll need to be working with pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, chains, sensors, and control panels etc. Fault finding via PLC is essential. Any welding experience is highly desirable.

The Person We’re Looking For

• A strong background in maintenance within manufacturing environments
• Experience and competent working on both mechanical and electrical components whilst abiding to H&S regulations.
• Confidence with strip-downs, rebuilds, and reactive maintenance
• An electrical NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineering
• A proactive attitude and hard worker who can be flexible jumping between mechanical an electrical work, but also production machinery and the site
• This is an ideal role for a maintenance engineer who wants to develop their skills in a stable, well-backed facility with real training opportunities.

Why apply?

Joining our client, you will be joining a business that place emphasis on training, development of their engineers. The company has been established for 50 years, the site in Accrington is one out of five sites in the UK. Therefore, it offers strong job security. You will be joining a company that look after their engineer’s future.

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation