Maintenance Engineer

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Generous holiday allowance

Ongoing technical training and staff发展

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a maintenance engineer for a large, well-invested manufacturing business. You will join a strong engineering team, focus on preventative and reactive maintenance, and drive reliability improvements across plant equipment.

The role involves a broad range of equipment maintenance, from process machinery to PLC-controlled systems, with opportunities to contribute to engineering standards and group initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance engineering in manufacturing environments.
• Fault finding across electrical and mechanical systems.
• Willingness to engage in continuous improvement and projects.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventive maintenance across a varied manufacturing plant.
• Provide reactive breakdown support to minimise downtime.
• Participate in reliability improvements and engineering projects.

Job description

£53,500 + Weekly Pay + Paid Breaks + Excellent Benefits

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to join a large, well-invested manufacturing business that continues to invest heavily in its engineering function, equipment and people.

The site is a technically interesting manufacturing operation with a strong engineering team and an excellent reputation for staff retention. Alongside supporting day-to-day production, the engineering department plays an active role in driving reliability improvements, continuous improvement projects and group-wide engineering initiatives.

If you're the type of engineer who enjoys getting to the root cause of problems rather than simply replacing parts, this could be an excellent opportunity.

The Role

Working as part of a multi-skilled engineering team, you'll be responsible for planned preventative maintenance, reactive breakdown support and continuous improvement across a varied manufacturing plant.

You’ll be involved in maintaining and improving a broad range of equipment including:

• Process plant and production machinery
• Pumps, valves and pipework
• Steam and heating systems
• Conveyors and automated equipment
• Three-phase motors and motor control systems
• Sensors, relays, contactors and control panels
• Variable speed drives and electrical fault finding
• Bearings, gearboxes, chains, sprockets and mechanical power transmission
• Hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• PLC-controlled equipment

Beyond day-to-day maintenance, you'll also contribute to:

• Root cause analysis and reliability improvements
• Planned engineering projects
• Equipment upgrades and modifications
• Continuous improvement initiatives
• Supporting wider group engineering and reliability programmes
• Improving plant performance, efficiency and equipment availability

This is an environment where engineers are encouraged to challenge recurring issues, recommend improvements and play an active part in developing engineering standards across the wider business.

Shift Pattern

• 12-hour rotating shift pattern (days and nights)
• One full week off within each rotation (rota will be provided upon application)
• Excellent work-life balance

What's on Offer

• Salary of around £53,500
• Weekly pay
• Paid breaks
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Ongoing technical training and development
• Investment in engineering and manufacturing technology
• Long-term career progression within a large multi-site manufacturing group
• Opportunity to contribute to wider engineering and reliability projects across the business

About You

We're keen to hear from maintenance engineers who enjoy fault finding and improving equipment reliability.

You’ll ideally have experience working within a manufacturing, production, process or automated engineering environment and be confident fault finding across both electrical and mechanical systems.

Whether your experience comes from FMCG, packaging, aerospace, automotive, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, building products or another manufacturing sector, we'd be interested in hearing from you if you enjoy solving problems and making equipment perform at its best.