Maintenance Engineer — Precision Manufacturing & Uptime

Impact Recruitment Services; Towcester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Impact Recruitment Services are seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer for a highly technical manufacturing environment in Towcester. You will provide hands-on engineering support across complex, high-value production equipment and minimise downtime through rapid fault finding and effective maintenance planning.

The role requires 5+ years' relevant experience, strong diagnostic skills, and the ability to read electrical schematics and engineering documentation.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship, HNC, HND or Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 5 years' relevant experience maintaining complex electro-mechanical equipment.
• Proven fault-finding and diagnostic skills across electrical, electronic and mechanical systems.
• Experience reading technical drawings, schematics, manuals and engineering documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide rapid engineering response to equipment breakdowns and minimise downtime.
• Diagnose and repair complex faults across electrical, electronic, mechanical, pneumatic, vacuum and control systems.
• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance activities.
• Complete fault finding, diagnostics, adjustments and component replacement.
• Work on highly specialised automated manufacturing equipment.
• Support root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.

Skills

Fault finding

Reading schematics

Electrical systems

Mechanical systems

Preventive maintenance

Safety procedures

Microsoft Office

Education

Electrical/Electronic/Mechanical Engineering degree or related

Job description

Impact Recruitment Services are seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer for a highly technical manufacturing environment in Towcester. You will provide hands-on engineering support across complex, high-value production equipment and minimise downtime through rapid fault finding and effective maintenance planning.

The role requires 5+ years' relevant experience, strong diagnostic skills, and the ability to read electrical schematics and engineering documentation.