Maintenance Technician – PCB & Complex Machinery Repair

First Military Recruitment Ltd; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

First Military Recruitment Ltd seeks a Maintenance Technician in Bedford to repair, maintain and fault-find complex manufacturing machinery, ensuring equipment uptime and safe operation. You’ll guide technicians, support shift leaders, and drive continuous improvement.

You will diagnose faults across electronics, PCBs, and mechanical setups, documenting procedures while collaborating with suppliers, subcontractors and service engineers to sustain high performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC/HND in Engineering, Science, Mathematics or Material Science, or equivalent education, training and experience.
• Experience repairing complex machinery and diagnosing faults.
• Ability to diagnose and repair PCBs to component level.
• Strong electronics background and fault-finding skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to document processes and procedures.
• Experience working with equipment suppliers, subcontractors and service engineers.
• Knowledge of 6S / Kaizen and continuous improvement (preferred).
• Ability to carry out mechanical setup and maintenance tasks.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Detail-oriented and able to work under pressure.
• Flexible and able to work alternate early and late shifts.
• Good level of computer literacy.
• Knowledge of cleanroom or specialist manufacturing environments (preferred).
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to issue work instructions and present ideas, concepts and solutions to employees, subcontractors and suppliers

Responsibilities

• Maintain over 80% uptime of key process machinery.
• Fault-find and repair complex machinery and PCBs to component level.
• Provide direction to technicians and support manufacturing shift leaders and production support personnel.
• Monitor, evaluate and improve machinery uptime and performance.
• Communicate with engineering supervisors, engineers and production operators.
• Identify and implement cost-reduction projects.
• Maintain knowledge of health and safety policies and regulations to ensure duties are carried out safely

Skills

Electronics

Fault finding

PCB repair

Documentation

Independent worker

Time management

Communication

6S / Kaizen

Education

HNC/HND in Engineering/Science/Mathematics/Material Science

Tools

PCB diagnostics tools

Job description

First Military Recruitment Ltd seeks a Maintenance Technician in Bedford to repair, maintain and fault-find complex manufacturing machinery, ensuring equipment uptime and safe operation. You’ll guide technicians, support shift leaders, and drive continuous improvement.

You will diagnose faults across electronics, PCBs, and mechanical setups, documenting procedures while collaborating with suppliers, subcontractors and service engineers to sustain high performance.