Maintenance Technician — Robotics, PLCs & CI

Bentley Motors Ltd; Crewe; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35 days annual leave

Progression pathways and study support

Car lease scheme

Health and life assurance benefits

Annual salary reviews with bonus

Contributory pension scheme

Health resources and wellbeing support

Discounts portal

Job summary

Bentley Motors Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Technician for our Crewe production site. You’ll maintain and improve equipment reliability across Assembly and Paint Maintenance, enabling output and quality targets within safety guidelines.

You will join a team that supports Bentley’s Beyond100+ strategy, working with PLCs, robotics and high‑end manufacturing equipment to drive continuous improvement and robust operations.

Qualifications

• Accredited Apprenticeship to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, HNC preferred.
• Experience in an engineering, maintenance, military or industrial environment with responsibility for maintaining equipment, machinery, plant or systems.
• Experience diagnosing and rectifying equipment faults using tools, test equipment, drawings, technical manuals or structured troubleshooting methods.
• Experience completing Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), inspections and/or breakdown maintenance.
• Evidence of working from engineering drawings, schematics, technical manuals or work instructions and accurately completing maintenance records.
• Experience working within controlled engineering safety procedures, including risk assessments.
• Exposure or knowledge of PLC’s and Robotics, and production line equipment would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Leading major complex problem solving activities ensuring a safe, timely and structured approach is used and that appropriate escalation and communication processes are adhered to.
• Resolving maintenance breakdowns using in depth knowledge of mechanical, electrical, electronic, control equipment, PLC and robotic programming systems.
• Carrying out planned, preventative and predictive maintenance.
• Working to safe practices as set out in the safety framework reporting any accidents or near misses to the relevant supervision.
• Ensuring any Maintenance activity does not place any other colleague / contractor / visitor at risk from their actions or omissions.
• Driving continuous improvement activities including generating Equipment Top Issues pareto for the technology.
• Working cross functionally in the delivery of new equipment to site ensuring the department is set up to be self‑sufficient from SOP and that the equipment is robust.

Skills

NVQ Level 3/HNC

Maintenance experience

Troubleshooting

PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance)

Engineering drawings

Safety and risk assessments

PLC/Robotics knowledge (advantageous)

Education

NVQ/HNC in Engineering

Tools

PLC systems

Robotics

Job description

Bentley Motors Ltd is recruiting a Maintenance Technician for our Crewe production site. You’ll maintain and improve equipment reliability across Assembly and Paint Maintenance, enabling output and quality targets within safety guidelines.

You will join a team that supports Bentley’s Beyond100+ strategy, working with PLCs, robotics and high‑end manufacturing equipment to drive continuous improvement and robust operations.