Mechanical Technician

Proactive Global; Bedford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days leave

Pension contributions 7%

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Enhanced sick pay

Share incentive scheme

Job summary

Proactive Global is seeking a hands-on Mechanical Technician in Bedford to maintain and repair industrial plant and machinery within a specialist engineering environment. You’ll cover planned maintenance, breakdowns, fault-finding, repairs, installation and modification of mechanical systems.

You’ll join an Engineering Services team, with a strong emphasis on practical fault‑finding and robust mechanical knowledge.

Qualifications

• Mechanical apprenticeship or substantial practical experience maintaining industrial plant and equipment.
• Experience across mechanical plant maintenance, hydraulics, pneumatics and pumps.
• Lubrication systems and gears, bearings, chains and linkages.
• Rotating and reciprocating machinery and planned preventative maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned inspections and preventative maintenance.
• Respond to plant equipment breakdowns and fault-finding.
• Repair and replace faulty components, install/modify equipment.
• Maintain hydraulic and lubrication systems and pumps.
• Work on compressible air systems, cooling and water systems.
• Ensure safe operation per risk assessments and site procedures.

Skills

Hands-on engineering

Fault finding

Mechanical maintenance

Preventive maintenance

Education

Mechanical apprenticeship

Job description

Are you a hands-on Mechanical Technician or Mechanical Fitter with experience maintaining and repairing industrial plant and machinery?

We are working with a highly specialised engineering organisation in Bedford to recruit a Mechanical Technician into its Engineering Services team.

This is a varied, practical engineering position where you’ll be responsible for keeping an impressive and unusual engineering facility operating safely and reliably. You’ll work across planned maintenance, breakdowns, fault-finding, repairs, installation and modification of mechanical plant and equipment.

The role

• Carrying out planned inspections and preventative maintenance
• Responding to plant and equipment breakdowns
• Mechanical fault-finding, repairs and component replacement
• Installing and modifying new plant and equipment
• Maintaining hydraulic and lubrication systems
• Working with compressed-air and pneumatic systems
• Maintaining pumps, cooling and water systems
• Working on mechanical machinery incorporating gears, chains, linkages and other rotating/reciprocating components
• Identifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability
• Working safely in accordance with risk assessments, method statements and site procedures
• Supporting the site’s emergency response arrangements

What we’re looking for

We’re interested in speaking with Mechanical Technicians, Mechanical Fitters, Maintenance Fitters, Mechanical Maintenance Engineers and similarly experienced hands‑on engineers.

You’ll ideally have completed a mechanical apprenticeship or have substantial practical experience maintaining industrial plant and equipment.

Experience across several of the following would be particularly valuable:

• Mechanical plant maintenance
• Hydraulics
• Pneumatics and compressed‑air systems
• Pumps and valves
• Cooling/water systems
• Lubrication systems
• Gears, bearings, chains and linkages
• Rotating and reciprocating machinery
• Planned preventative maintenance
• Breakdown and reactive maintenance
• Mechanical installation and modification

You don’t need previous experience within aerospace or wind tunnel environments. What’s more important is a strong industrial mechanical background, practical fault‑finding ability and the confidence to work on complex plant and machinery.

Hours:

This is a full-time position working 40 hours per week on rotating shifts, typically:

• Early: 06:30–14:30
• Late: 14:00–22:00

What’s on offer?

You’ll have the opportunity to work within a genuinely unusual specialist engineering environment, alongside experienced engineers and technicians, with plenty of scope to develop your technical knowledge.

The wider benefits package includes

• 26 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• matched pension contributions up to 7%
• private medical insurance
• life assurance
• enhanced sick pay
• a share incentive scheme

Due to the nature of the facility, the successful candidate will need to satisfy security clearance requirements, including five years’ continuous UK residency.

If you’re a Mechanical Technician or Fitter who enjoys getting stuck into real machinery, fault‑finding and hands‑on engineering, we’d love to hear from you.