Maintenance Engineer – Heavy Machinery & PPM

10 recruitment; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

10 Recruitment are supporting a Wakefield-based manufacturing business in recruiting a mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer to join the engineering team.

The role covers planned and reactive maintenance of heavy machinery, fault finding, and continuous improvement on equipment such as lathes, milling machines, presses and gearboxes.

Hours are Mon-Thu 7:00am–4:00pm and Fri 7:00am–1:00pm, with a permanent, full-time contract and a strong focus on safety and reliability of plant equipment.

Qualifications

• Time-served or apprenticeship in mechanical engineering.
• Experience maintaining heavy manufacturing equipment (lathes, mills, presses).
• Strong fault-finding and repair skills across mechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance across site machinery.
• Respond to mechanical breakdowns and perform repairs.
• Fault finding and diagnose issues on heavy manufacturing equipment.
• Maintain and repair machinery including lathes, mills, presses and gearboxes.
• Work on hydraulic and pneumatic systems and assist with electrical fault finding.

Skills

Mechanical fault-finding

Maintenance engineering

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

Motors & drives

Troubleshooting

Education

Apprenticeship in mechanical engineering

Tools

Lathes

Milling machines

Presses

Gearboxes

Bearings

Drive systems

Job description

10 Recruitment are supporting a Wakefield-based manufacturing business in recruiting a mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer to join the engineering team.

The role covers planned and reactive maintenance of heavy machinery, fault finding, and continuous improvement on equipment such as lathes, milling machines, presses and gearboxes.

Hours are Mon-Thu 7:00am–4:00pm and Fri 7:00am–1:00pm, with a permanent, full-time contract and a strong focus on safety and reliability of plant equipment.