Maintenance Project Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in industrial gases is seeking a Maintenance Project Engineer in Hull. This hands-on role involves leading critical upgrade and maintenance projects, ensuring plant reliability, and offering excellent development opportunities. Candidates with a degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering and project experience are encouraged to apply. The position offers a competitive salary, performance bonuses, and a supportive work environment focused on career growth.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus scheme

Pension scheme with up to 10% employer contributions

Extensive training and development opportunities

Defined career progression pathways

Social team events and charity days

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1-year experience in a process, plant, or industrial setting.
• Familiarity with HAZOPs or other process safety methodologies.
• Interest in achieving Chartered status.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and implement solutions for maintaining and upgrading plant assets.
• Support the development and execution of capital projects.
• Collaborate closely with site-based teams to ensure operational continuity.

Skills

Project Engineering

Maintenance Strategies

Safety Compliance

Education

Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering

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23.05.2025

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07.07.2025

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Job Description:

Maintenance Project Engineer

Location: Hull Area

Hours: Monday to Friday, Flexible Hours Available – 40 hours per week

About the Role

We’re looking for a Maintenance Project Engineer to join our clients extremely successful team who are a global leader in industrial gases and engineering. Based near Hull, this is an exciting opportunity for a mechanically or chemically inclined engineer to lead critical upgrade and maintenance projects across our clients special gases and production facilities.

This is a hands-on engineering role that plays a vital part in ensuring plant reliability, efficiency and future-readiness, offering excellent long-term development opportunities within a supportive and high-performing environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Deliver and implement solutions for maintaining, upgrading and replacing obsolete or ageing plant assets
• Design and execute engineering projects to modernise production plants and support continuous improvement across special gases and DA processes
• Support the development and execution of capital projects, overseeing scope, feasibility, budgeting, resource allocation and scheduling
• Help manage the project lifecycle, from design through commissioning and handover to site teams
• Provide training to operational staff and maintenance technicians to ensure smooth integration of new equipment
• Supporting ongoing maintenance strategies for critical assets, helping to improve asset reliability and reduce downtime
• Apply safety and compliance best practices, including participation in HAZOP studies and safety reviews
• Collaborating closely with site-based teams, maintenance technicians and operational staff to ensure seamless handover and operational continuity

What We’re Looking For

• A degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• Progressing toward or interested in achieving **Chartered status
• A minimum of 1-year of experience in a process, plant or industrial setting, ideally with exposure to gases, chemicals or utilities environments
• Prior involvement in project engineering, maintenance projects or asset upgrades
• Familiarity with HAZOPs or other process safety methodologies
• Either working towards or open to pursuing Chartered Engineering status

Candidates from structured graduate schemes or with operational site-based project experience are particularly encouraged to apply.

Benefits Package

• This role offers a competitive salary of £42,000 – £48,000 per year
• Performance-based bonus scheme
• Pension scheme with up to 10% employer contributions
• Extensive training and development opportunities
• Defined career progression pathways
• Social team events, charity days and employee engagement initiatives
• A collaborative, inclusive work environment where ideas are welcomed and contributions are recognised

Next Steps

Our client is at the forefront of engineering innovation and sustainability and as part of a global group, this is an opportunity to join a high-performing team where safety, integrity and career growth are central values.

The company is proud to support women in engineering and actively promote ED&I right across the business so that you are given the full support, training, development and guidance to take your career to the next level.

Whether you want to gain chartered status or study for a specific training course or qualification, the business will support you with whatever you need from day one with all of the career development that comes with it.

Even if you do not tick all of the boxes mentioned above, we encourage you to submit your application anyway as our client will look at all applicants for this role if they feel you could be a good fit for the team.

Click apply and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch to discuss your application further!