Maintenance Engineer

Proactive Global; South Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Aid

Pension

Job summary

Proactive Global is hiring a Maintenance Engineer to join the engineering team at a high-automation distribution warehouse in South Yorkshire. The role involves reactive and preventative maintenance of automated equipment, fault finding on electrical and mechanical systems, and ensuring up-time in a fast-paced operation.

You'll work with conveyors, motors, sensors, and control panels, supporting downtime minimisation and reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Maintenance Engineer / Electrical Engineer / Automation Engineer.
• Strong electrical fault-finding skills.
• Experience with conveyors, automated systems, or production machinery.

Responsibilities

• Reactive and preventative maintenance on automated warehouse equipment.
• Fault finding and diagnostics on electrical and mechanical systems.
• Maintenance and repair of conveyor systems, motors, sensors, and control panels.
• Supporting system up-time in a fast-paced distribution environment.
• Working with engineering teams to minimise downtime and improve reliability.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Automation systems

Conveyors

Maintenance engineering

Job description

MUST BE AUTHORISED TO WORK IN THE UK-NO SPONSORSHIP WILL BE PROVIDED

We're hiring Maintenance Engineers to join the engineering team at a distribution warehouse in South Yorkshire. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a highly automated warehouse environment that powers one of the UK's leading retail distribution operations.

You'll be working with advanced material handling and automation systems, including conveyors, sortation systems, motors, sensors, and control panels, ensuring the smooth operation of high-volume fulfilment centres.
Location: Doncaster-DN33FQ / Rotherham-S635DL / South Elmsall-WF92GR
Salary: £49 000, per annum + OTE + additional benefits
Shift: Panama shifts (3on 3 off, 12 hours, days & nights)

What you'll be doing:

• Reactive and preventative maintenance on automated warehouse equipment
• Fault finding and diagnostics on electrical and mechanical systems
• Maintenance and repair of conveyor systems, motors, sensors, and control panels
• Supporting system up-time in a fast-paced distribution environment
• Working with engineering teams to minimise downtime and improve reliability
• Experience as a Maintenance Engineer / Electrical Engineer / Automation Engineer
• Strong electrical fault-finding skills (mechanical knowledge beneficial)
• Experience with conveyors, automated systems, or production machinery
• Comfortable working in a Panama shift-based environment

Additional Benefits:

• Medical Aid
• Pension (3% contribution)
• OvertimeFull list will be provided to qualifying candidates

Proactive Global is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
Proactive Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.