Maintenance Engineer: Lead Reliability & CI Manufacturing

Energy Jobline CVL; Woodbridge; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Engineer in East Suffolk to own engineering standards and drive continuous improvement in a regulated manufacturing setting. The role focuses on reliability, proactive maintenance, and coaching operators to improve equipment care and performance.

You will diagnose faults, lead from the front, and coordinate contractors while maintaining high safety and quality standards across the site.

Qualifications

• Qualified or time served Maintenance Engineer with an Electrical/Electronic predominant bias.
• Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills.
• Experience with PPM, breakdown response and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to read electrical, pneumatic and mechanical drawings.
• Experience with machinery, motors, sensors, drives, pneumatics and controls.
• Good understanding of safe isolation and machinery safety.
• Experience using a CMMS or maintenance management system.
• A practical, data-driven approach to continuous improvement.
• Strong communication skills to influence and train others.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and control-system breakdowns.
• Own and improve the planned preventive maintenance programme.
• Investigate recurring failures and deliver sustainable root-cause solutions.
• Work with Production to improve OEE, uptime, efficiency, waste and equipment performance.
• Maintain and improve machinery, tooling and production equipment.
• Use maintenance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Support equipment installations, commissioning and engineering projects.
• Provide engineering support across site utilities and production-critical services.
• Coordinate specialist contractors and external engineering partners.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records, documentation and engineering standards.
• Work closely with Quality and EHS to maintain high safety, quality and regulatory standards.
• Coach and educate operators in equipment care, basic fault-finding and preventative maintenance.

Skills

Mechanical fault-finding

Electrical fault-finding

Root-cause analysis

Read drawings

Continuous improvement

Communication

Leadership/coach operators

Education

Time served maintenance engineer

Electrical/electronic bias

Tools

CMMS

PLCs

Job description

Energy Jobline CVL is seeking a hands-on Maintenance Engineer in East Suffolk to own engineering standards and drive continuous improvement in a regulated manufacturing setting. The role focuses on reliability, proactive maintenance, and coaching operators to improve equipment care and performance.

You will diagnose faults, lead from the front, and coordinate contractors while maintaining high safety and quality standards across the site.