Maintenance Engineer

Ata-Recruitment-Ltd; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A Maintenance Engineer position in Leeds is available at Ata-Recruitment-Ltd to maintain a busy production facility in a precision manufacturing environment. The role involves planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and ensuring safe operation of automated machinery including vacuum casting furnaces, robots, CNC machines, and hydraulic/pneumatic systems.

Day shift, Mon-Fri; salary around £41,000. The site operates 24/7 and requires engineers who can diagnose issues and deliver reliable

Qualifications

• A strong mechanical bias with excellent mechanical fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
• Experience with maintenance in aerospace/automotive environments is beneficial but not essential.
• Knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems is advantageous.
• Good knowledge of health & safety and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM/TPM).
• Responding to breakdowns and performing mechanical fault finding.
• Inspecting, testing and diagnosing machinery and equipment.
• Repairing machinery using drawings, diagrams and manuals.
• Working on hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Maintaining vacuum casting furnaces, automated robots and CNC machinery.
• Replacing and repairing components including bearings, motors and valves.
• Supporting installation and commissioning of new equipment.
• Identifying recurring problems and proposing reliability improvements.

Skills

Mechanical fault-finding

Maintenance planning

Tools

Hydraulic systems

Pneumatic systems

Vacuum casting furnaces

CNC machinery

Industrial robots

Job description

Maintenance Engineer , £41,000 Leeds

Mon Fri, Day shift only.

About the company

Want to work on some seriously impressive manufacturing equipment?

If you're a time-served Maintenance Engineer who enjoys fault finding, solving complex mechanical problems and working around automated machinery, this could be a great opportunity to take your career into aerospace manufacturing.

We're recruiting for a Maintenance engineer of Mechanical Bias to join a highly technical precision manufacturing facility in West Yorkshire.

This isn't your typical factory environment.

You’ll be working around vacuum casting furnaces, industrial robots, automated systems, CNC machinery, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment and specialist manufacturing technology – helping keep a 24/7 operation running safely and efficiently.

Why join?

• Get into aerospace manufacturing – work in a highly technical environment producing critical components for aerospace and industrial gas turbine applications.
• Serious engineering kit – four Equiax vacuum casting furnaces, two DS vacuum casting furnaces, automated dipping and robotic polishing systems, CNC machinery and much more.
• Automation everywhere – you'll be working on robots, automated systems, hydraulic equipment and specialist production machinery.
• Established engineering operation – the site has decades of experience in precision casting and employs significant engineering expertise, with over 247 years of combined engineering experience.

About the role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you'll be responsible for ensuring the safe and efficient maintenance of a busy production facility;

Your day-to-day will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM/TPM).
• Responding to breakdowns and completing effective mechanical fault finding.
• Inspecting, testing and diagnosing machinery and equipment.
• Repairing machinery using engineering drawings, diagrams and technical manuals.
• Working on hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Maintaining vacuum casting furnaces, automated robots, CNC machinery, compressors and wax injection moulding equipment.
• Replacing and repairing components including bearings, motors, coolant pumps, hydraulic/pneumatic valves, seals and safety guards.
• Supporting the installation and commissioning of new equipment.
• Identifying recurring problems and developing solutions to improve equipment reliability.

About you

To be considered for this maintenance engineer position you should be/have the following:

• A strong mechanical bias with excellent mechanical fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
• It would be beneficial to have worked in aerospace/automotive environments but not essential.
• Experience working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems would be advantageous.
• Good knowledge of health & safety and risk assessment.

We're particularly interested in engineers who are proactive, technically curious and enjoy getting to the root cause of problems.