Maintenance Engineer

Handley James Consulting Ltd; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Handley James Consulting Ltd is recruiting an Electrically Biased Maintenance Engineer for a growing manufacturing operation. The role is hands-on, focusing on electrical maintenance, breakdown response, and planned maintenance to improve equipment reliability.

You will contribute to performance improvements and work in a heavy engineering environment with hydraulics and pneumatics. You will carry out reactive and preventive maintenance, root cause analysis, and support equipment upgrade

Qualifications

• Time served electrically biased maintenance engineer with engineering apprenticeship or equivalent.
• Experience in reactive and planned maintenance within manufacturing.
• Knowledge of health and safety requirements and engineering standards.
• Able to support equipment upgrades and robotics projects.

Responsibilities

• Maintain plant and equipment to operate safely, reliably and efficiently.
• Diagnose electrical faults and carry out reactive maintenance to minimise downtime.
• Perform scheduled preventive maintenance to improve reliability.
• Undertake electrical and mechanical maintenance to support production.
• Identify recurring faults via root cause analysis and implement improvements.
• Support equipment upgrade projects, including robotics, with the wider team.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Root cause analysis

Health & safety

Mechanical maintenance

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

HNC/HND or 18th Edition

Job description

We have been retained by one of our key clients to recruit an Electrically Bias Maintenance Engineer for a growing and established manufacturing business. This is an excellent opportunity to join an organisation where you can apply your electrical maintenance skills and help improve equipment reliability.

This is a hands on role and an opportunity to contribute to the performance of a manufacturing operation. The business requires an electrically biased maintenance engineer who can respond effectively to breakdowns, carry out planned maintenance and support equipment improvements.

Role Responsibilities

To maintain plant and equipment, ensuring it operates safely, reliably and efficiently while minimising disruption to production.

• Carrying out reactive maintenance and diagnosing electrical faults to restore equipment safely and minimise downtime
• Completing scheduled planned preventive maintenance activities to improve equipment reliability
• Undertaking electrical and mechanical maintenance to support production requirements
• Identifying recurring faults through root cause analysis and supporting lasting maintenance improvements
• Supporting equipment upgrade projects, including robotics, and working with the wider team to improve plant performance
• Working in line with health and safety requirements and relevant engineering standards across all maintenance activities

You will currently be a time served, electrically biased maintenance engineer with a completed engineering apprenticeship or equivalent qualification and previous experience within manufacturing. You will have experience of reactive and planned maintenance, scheduled maintenance activities, root cause analysis. Strong health and safety knowledge, the ability to carry out electrical and mechanical maintenance, and experience of supporting equipment upgrade projects are essential.

Experience within heavy engineering or a similar industrial environment, hydraulics and pneumatics, facilities maintenance, machine relocation and maintaining equipment of varying ages and complexity would be advantageous. An HNC, HND or 18th Edition qualification, together with experience of supporting mandatory inspections, would also be desirable. You will be comfortable working at height and able to adapt your working hours to changing priorities