Maintenance Engineer: Training, Growth, Continental Shifts

Yolk Recruitment; Poole; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free on-site parking

Comprehensive employee benefits

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical) to join a large manufacturing site in Poole, Dorset. The role covers continental days and nights with a strong focus on reliability, asset care and developing engineers across electrical and mechanical disciplines.

You will perform planned maintenance on high-speed production and packaging machinery, fault-find electrical and mechanical issues, and use CMMS for asset management.

Qualifications

• Experience in maintenance within manufacturing or industrial environments.
• Strong fault-finding ability within your core discipline.
• Experience with automated or PLC-controlled machinery.
• Ability to read engineering drawings or schematics.
• Willingness to develop across electrical and mechanical maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and preventative maintenance across high-speed automated production and packaging machinery.
• Respond to breakdowns and perform electrical and mechanical fault finding to minimise downtime.
• Work across motors, drives, sensors, conveyors, pumps, pneumatics, hydraulics and PLC-controlled equipment.
• Use the CMMS to record maintenance activity, manage assets and support planned maintenance routines.
• Support reliability and asset-care programmes and drive a proactive maintenance approach.
• Identify recurring faults and contribute to root-cause analysis and continuous improvement projects.
• Work with engineering and production teams to improve equipment performance and reliability.

Skills

Fault finding

Electrical maintenance

Mechanical maintenance

PLC machinery

Maintenance planning

Engineering drawings

Education

Electrical/Mechanical engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Yolk Recruitment is seeking a Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical or Electrical) to join a large manufacturing site in Poole, Dorset. The role covers continental days and nights with a strong focus on reliability, asset care and developing engineers across electrical and mechanical disciplines.

You will perform planned maintenance on high-speed production and packaging machinery, fault-find electrical and mechanical issues, and use CMMS for asset management.