Maintenance Engineer – Halstead

Wagstaff Recruitment; Halstead; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Regular Overtime Available

23 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Company Performance Bonus

Private Healthcare

Job summary

Wagstaff Recruitment is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer in Halstead, Essex. Salary £40,000-£45,000 per annum plus £5k guaranteed overtime. Location: Halstead, Essex.

Role: Mon-Fri 7am-4pm with 1 in 2 Saturdays (Paid at overtime). You will join a small team to perform planned and reactive maintenance, overhaul work and basic electrical fault finding on 3‑phase motors and drives.

Qualifications

• Must be a mechanically biased engineer / plant fitter.
• Experience in a heavier industrial sector.
• Able to work extra hours and Saturdays when required.
• Basic fabrication & fitting skills would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all planned, reactive maintenance and project overhaul work.
• Working in a small team of engineers, working extra hours to help out when needed.
• Repairing production machinery, conveyors, industrial plant equipment, cranes, fleet vehicles.
• Dealing with repairs on gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, bearings, shafts, motors, valves, hoses.
• Basic electrical fault finding on 3-phase motors, VFDs, industrial controls.
• Mechanical fabrication & fitting

Skills

Mechanical bias

Team player

Willing to work extra hours

Hands-on electrical fault finding

Education

Mechanical engineering qualifications

Job description

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Halstead, Essex £40,000-£45,000 + £5k Guaranteed Overtime

Monday-Friday 7am-4pm + 1 in 2 Saturdays (Paid at Overtime)

Benefits

• Regular Overtime Available
• 23 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays
• Company Performance Bonus, Private Healthcare

Our client is a leading industrial manufacturer, that values hard work, teamwork and developing people. Part of a UK group supplying into various different industry sectors, they are looking for an experience mechanical biased maintenance engineer to join their maintenance team!

Role & Responsibilities as a maintenance engineer:

• Responsible for all planned, reactive maintenance and project overhaul work
• Working in a small team of engineers, working extra hours to help out when needed
• Repairing production machinery, conveyors, industrial plant equipment, cranes, fleet vehicles
• Dealing with repairs on gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, bearings, shafts, motors, valves, hoses
• Basic electrical fault finding on 3-phase motors, VFD's, industrial controls
• Mechanical fabrication & fitting

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Must be a mechanically biased engineer / plant fitter
• Worked in a small team previously where everyone does extra hours to get the job done, helps out on Saturdays - "if one person lets the team down, it lets everyone down."
• Team fit really important, get stuck in, work hard mentality
• Comfortable working in a dusty, dirty, wet & messy environment
• Must have worked in a heavier industrial sector
• Basic fabrication & fitting skills would be beneficial
• Experience in fixing plant machinery, production & fleet equipment
• Hold on mechanical engineering qualifications
• Must be able to drive due to site location - no public transport access

If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours please presume you are unsuccessful.

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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Job Tenure: Permanent
Salary: £40000-£45000 per annum + benefits
Location: Halstead, Essex