Maintenance Engineer

Polyframe; Norwich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + BH

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Life Assurance Scheme

Salary Sacrifice Pension

Free parking

Friends & family cashback

Volunteering leave

Growth and training

Job summary

Polyframe, part of SWPF Group, is recruiting a Maintenance Engineer at our Lenwade site in Norfolk. You will earn £47,196 per annum and work a two-week rotating pattern with early and late shifts.

Expect 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, and a benefits package including a pension scheme, life cover, and volunteering leave. You'll diagnose faults, perform preventative maintenance, and drive improvements to keep production safe and reliable.

Qualifications

• You’ll have significant maintenance experience in a manufacturing or industrial plant.
• You should understand lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• You’ll have fault-finding skills and a practical, methodical approach to solving machinery problems.
• You’ll be familiar with safety and management standards and ideally IOSH/NEBOSH.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and repair machinery breakdowns, responding promptly to minimise downtime.
• Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance, coordinating access to equipment and checking cleanliness requirements.
• Investigate root causes of faults and implement improvements to prevent repeats.
• Identify and request parts needed for maintenance and repairs.
• Support Total Productive Maintenance and Front Line Maintenance activities.
• Help improve equipment reliability, product quality and production throughput.
• Complete agreed improvement plans while following Health and Safety procedures and environmental requirements.

Skills

Lean manufacturing

Continuous improvement

MS Office

ISO 9001/ISO 14001 knowledge

Education

Mechanical or electrical qualification

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Maintenance Engineer

£47,196 per annum | Lenwade, Norfolk

Monday to Friday | Rotating early and late shifts

Join Polyframe, part of SWPF Group, at our manufacturing site in Lenwade. You’ll earn an annual salary of £47,196, with 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays and a clear two week shift rotation.

You’ll put your fault finding skills to work across breakdown repairs, planned maintenance and machinery improvements. Working closely with Production, you’ll diagnose problems, prevent repeat failures and help equipment perform reliably.

A working pattern you can plan around

You’ll work a two week rotation, Monday to Friday:

• Week 1: 6am to 2pm
• Week 2: 2.15pm to 10.15pm

What’s in it for you?

• £47,196 annual salary
• Machinery specific training and opportunities for further engineering development
• 25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Free parking
• Friends and family cashback on the products we manufacture
• One day’s paid volunteering leave to support your chosen charity

Your role

You’ll help keep production machinery safe, reliable and consistently producing quality products.

• Diagnose and repair machinery breakdowns, responding promptly to minimise downtime.
• Carry out Planned Preventative Maintenance, coordinating access to equipment and checking that cleanliness requirements are met.
• Investigate the root causes of faults and implement improvements to prevent repeat failures.
• Identify and request parts needed for maintenance and repairs.
• Support Total Productive Maintenance and Front Line Maintenance activities.
• Help improve equipment reliability, product quality and production throughput.
• Complete agreed improvement plans while following Health and Safety procedures and environmental requirements.

Your experience

You’ll bring significant maintenance experience within a manufacturing or industrial plant environment, strong technical understanding and a practical, methodical approach to solving machinery problems. A mechanical or electrical qualification would be ideal.

You’ll also need:

• An understanding of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes and procurement or supply chain activities.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of relevant safety and management standards, including ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
• AutoCAD skills and an IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH qualification are desirable.

Experience in PVC or aluminium window manufacturing is highly desirable. Familiarity with Urban, Haffner, Emmegi, Elumatec, Stuga, Rotox or Hollinger machinery would be advantageous.

We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.