Maintenance Engineer – Panama Shifts, Training & Growth

Ata-Recruitment-Ltd; Silkstone; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Panama shift pattern

Specialist training on injection mould

Investment in new machinery

Long history of the company

Engineering team culture

Supportive Engineering Manager

Job summary

Ata Recruitment Ltd is recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer in Barnsley for a UK-based manufacturing client. The role offers a £49,471 annual salary and a Panama shift pattern, delivering substantial time off across the year while covering days and nights.

You will keep specialist equipment running safely and efficiently. You should be a mechanically or electrically biased engineer with multi-skilled maintenance experience in manufacturing, plus strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills

Qualifications

• A maintenance engineer who is either mechanically or electrically biased.
• Level 3 engineering qualification or equivalent is preferred.
• Multi-skilled maintenance experience within manufacturing.
• Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills.
• If mechanically biased, ability to carry out electrical maintenance tasks safely.
• Logical, methodical approach to fault finding and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out planned preventive maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance.
• Fault finding and diagnosing electrical and mechanical issues.
• Maintaining specialist injection moulding and plastic extrusion machinery.
• Responding to breakdowns and minimising production downtime.
• Working safely on electrical control panels and associated equipment.
• Identifying opportunities to improve machinery reliability and performance.
• Thinking creatively and using a 'fix it properly' approach to fault finding.

Skills

Multi-skilled maintenance

Electrical fault-finding

Mechanical fault-finding

Teamwork

Problem solving

Safety conscious

Education

Level 3 engineering qualification or equivalent

Tools

Control panels

Injection moulding machinery

Plastic extrusion machinery

Job description

Ata Recruitment Ltd is recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer in Barnsley for a UK-based manufacturing client. The role offers a £49,471 annual salary and a Panama shift pattern, delivering substantial time off across the year while covering days and nights.

You will keep specialist equipment running safely and efficiently. You should be a mechanically or electrically biased engineer with multi-skilled maintenance experience in manufacturing, plus strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills