Maintenance Project Engineer

ZipRecruiter; 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 near Hull. The role involves leading upgrade and maintenance projects while ensuring plant efficiency and reliability. This hands-on position offers excellent long-term development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus scheme

10% employer pension contributions

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working hours

Extensive training and development opportunities

Defined career progression pathways

Social team events and charity days

Qualifications

• 1+ year experience in a process, plant, or industrial setting.
• Exposure to gases, chemicals, or utilities environments.
• Familiarity with HAZOPs or other safety methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead maintenance and upgrade projects for plant assets.
• Design and execute engineering modernization projects.
• Manage the project lifecycle from design to handover.

Skills

Project Engineering

Maintenance

Safety Compliance

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering

Job description

Job Description

Maintenance Project Engineer

Salary: £42,000 – £48,000 + Bonus Scheme + Excellent Benefits

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
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Flexible working hours
• 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!