Maintenance Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Morton; On-site; GBP 44,100 - 53,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company EV Car Scheme

Overtime paid at 1.5x

Qualifications support

Job summary

ATA Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for a leading food manufacturer in Gainsborough. The role covers reactive and planned maintenance, with electrical and mechanical fault-finding, and workshop organisation for a smaller site with expansion plans.

The successful candidate will typically hold a Level 3 Electrical qualification and have experience in an engineering environment, able to fault-find electrical systems, read schematics, and interpret HMI screens.

Qualifications

• Minimum Level 3 Electrical qualification and experience in an engineering environment.
• Comfortably fault-find on electrical systems and work well in a team.
• Ability to read schematics and interpret HMI screens.

Responsibilities

• Perform reactive and planned maintenance to ensure smooth factory operation.
• Fault-find on electrical and mechanical components with no programming required.
• Take ownership of workshop and manage tools and stock.
• Collaborate across the site to support engineering activities.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Mechanical fault-finding

Schematics reading

HMI understanding

Team player

Education

Level 3 Electrical qualification

Job description

Maintenance Engineer
Gainsborough
£49,000
Healthcare + EV Scheme + Qualifications
Shift - 4 on 4 off, Days (Weekends - PPM's only)

About the company:

Join one of the UK's most successful food manufacturers. You'll be part of a family-owned business with over 100 years of heritage, market-leading brands, modern production facilities, and a genuine commitment to investing in people. Whether you're an experienced Maintenance Engineer or looking to develop your technical career, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact in a business that keeps the nation supplied with quality food every day.

About the role:

We're currently partnering with one of our rapidly investing food manufacturing clients who are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join their team in Gainsborough. The successful candidate will be given the opportunity to earn qualifications, as well as work part of a close-knit team at a smaller site with big expansion plans.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring the smooth running of the factory, by performing reactive and planned maintenance work.
• Electrical fault-finding as well as mechanical fault-finding.
• Taking ownership of looking after the workshop, ensuring all the tools are correctly stored as well as ordering new stock when necessary.
• Fault-finding on both the electrical and mechanical components. No programming required but need to have the ability to check I/O's, read schematics and check HMI Screens.
• The ideal candidate will ideally have an electrical bias.

About you:

To be considered for the Maintenance Engineer position, you should have the following:

• A minimum of a Level 3 Electrical qualification
• To have experience within an engineering environment
• Comfortably fault-find on electrical systems and be able to work in a team environment.
• To contribute to the engineering activities across the site.

Why join our client?

A good training scheme allowing Engineers to go through professional development with qualifications by recognised bodies.

• Company EV Car Scheme
• Plenty of overtime potential paid at 1.5x and other great benefits
• Working for one of the biggest food manufacturers in the UK who are rapidly growing due to ongoing investment.

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