Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer: PLCs & Hydraulics

Advanced Engineering; Northampton; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Job summary

Auxo Engineering is partnering with a manufacturing business to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer in Northampton. The role spans electrical and mechanical maintenance, requires hands-on problem solving, and offers a salary of £62,000 plus overtime with Monday–Friday shifts and alternating early/late hours.

You will perform planned preventative maintenance, reactive breakdown repairs, fault-finding on PLCs, inverters, drives, hydraulics and gearboxes, and support reliability

Qualifications

• Recognised engineering apprenticeship or Level 3 qualification (NVQ/City & Guilds/BTEC) preferably with electrical bias.
• Proven experience across electrical fault-finding and mechanical maintenance.
• Experience diagnosing faults on automated manufacturing equipment.

Responsibilities

• Respond to machinery breakdowns, diagnose faults and perform safe repairs.
• Complete planned preventative maintenance to minimise downtime.
• Fault-find on PLCs, inverters, drives, sensors and three-phase systems.
• Carry out mechanical maintenance on gearboxes, pumps, valves, bearings, hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Read electrical schematics, wiring diagrams and mechanical drawings.
• Complete risk assessments and permits to work in line with safety requirements.
• Record maintenance activities in CMMS.
• Support equipment installations and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with production teams to improve plant reliability.
• Provide out-of-hours support when required.
• Coordinate with external contractors on site.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Mechanical maintenance

PLC & control systems

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Auxo Engineering is partnering with a manufacturing business to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer in Northampton. The role spans electrical and mechanical maintenance, requires hands-on problem solving, and offers a salary of £62,000 plus overtime with Monday–Friday shifts and alternating early/late hours.

You will perform planned preventative maintenance, reactive breakdown repairs, fault-finding on PLCs, inverters, drives, hydraulics and gearboxes, and support reliability