Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job Working pattern: Days, 530am - 2pm, 40-hour week, Monday to Friday

Location: Castle Donnington area

Working onsite within a small engineering team

Type: Permanent

Industry: SME General Manufacturing site with a rich history

Small close knit engineering team with long service

Our client is a manufacturer with a longstanding footprint. It is an established site with an established LONG SERVING engineering team. Staff retention is excellent. Training, development, and support is provided on a manufacturing site. You will help the site make high-quality manufactured products. This market leading employer will welcome and encourage your new ideas, a proven mechanical skill set, and you will be rewarded with the opportunity to learn and grow, achieving your career aspirations.

Key Responsibilities - Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Days Monday to Friday

Your new challenge will be providing effective and efficient planned, preventative and breakdown maintenance to minimise losses to production.

1. Ensure the continuous running of the production process by eliminating downtime through a safe and logical approach to fault finding and maintenance of equipment.
2. Planned and reactive maintenance to keep downtime to a minimum.
3. Work with a variety of process and manufacturing machinery, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, and general mechanical fitting.
4. Fault-finding to fabrication.
5. Leading electrical and instrumentation, repair, and working with CMMS.
6. Diagnosis, resolution, and elimination of root causes of mechanical engineering faults.
7. Implementation of minor equipment modifications in support of increased performance.
8. Completion of all scheduled, planned corrective, reactive and improvement maintenance as allocated.
9. Contribute to the planning and implementation of allocated annual equipment overhauls.

Qualifications & Requirements - Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Days Monday to Friday

1. Apprentice trained or NVQ level 3 in a mechanical engineering discipline in maintenance engineering.
2. Plastics, process, CNC, tooling, general manufacturing would be ideal.
3. Manufacturing Industry experience ideal, heavy, medium or FMCG environments considered - more about the transferable skills and culture fit.
4. Knowledge of conveyor belts, drives, gearboxes and couplings general mechanical equipment.
5. Knowledge of Hydraulic & Pneumatic systems is essential.
6. Routine Preventative Maintenance so an understanding of a PPM schedule.
7. Finding and fixing faults quickly and effectively.
8. Basic welding and fabrication skills advantageous.
9. Fitting, Fabricating and Welding experience preferred.
10. A proactive approach to fault finding, a commitment to continuous improvement and personal development.

What we can offer - Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Days Monday to Friday

1. 30 days holiday, Company Sick Pay, Pension standard Auto Enrolment.
2. Small close collaborative team with long service.
3. Autonomy to add value to the department and showcase your skill set.
4. Work in a varied site with varied special purpose machines manufacturing consumer products and engineered materials.
5. Semi-automated facility.
6. Opportunity for overtime.
7. Pension.
8. People centric culture with a long serving workforce.
9. Free onsite parking.
10. Health cash plan.
11. Life Assurance.

For more information on this role, please contact Mike Butler on 0113 2123519 or send a copy of your CV to [emailprotected].

Candidates who are currently a multi-skilled engineer, mechanical engineer, mechanical maintenance engineer, manufacturing engineer, maintenance fitter, mechanical biased engineer, fitter, plant fitter, maintenance engineer, shift engineer or maintenance engineer, dayshift engineer, may be suitable for this position.

Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.