Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer — PLC Manufacturing + Overtime

Staffline; Burton upon Trent; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Guaranteed Christmas Shutdown

Premium overtime rates

Healthcare cash plan

Enhanced family leave policies

Pension scheme up to 15%

Ongoing training & development

Cycle to work scheme

Employee discounts on company products

Hundreds of retail discounts

Wellbeing centre

Share purchase scheme

Life assurance

Long-term career progression

Job summary

Staffline is seeking a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer for a large UK manufacturing facility in the Burton upon Trent area. The role focuses on maintaining a wide range of heavy equipment, with no Sundays and limited Saturdays, and a salary of £53,500 plus overtime and benefits.

You will perform preventative and reactive maintenance, fault-finding, and improvements across conveyors, hydraulics, gearboxes and rotating machinery, ensuring safe, compliant operation and strong uptime performance.

Qualifications

• Mechanical maintenance experience gained within a manufacturing, heavy industry, production, recycling, aggregates, building products or similar environment.
• Apprentice trained, NVQ Level 3 qualified or time-served engineer.
• Strong mechanical fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
• Experience working with hydraulics, pneumatics, conveyors, gearboxes, bearings and rotating equipment.
• Competent in core mechanical fitting and maintenance activities.
• Fabrication and welding experience would be advantageous.
• Basic PLC fault-finding knowledge would be beneficial.
• Previous experience using a CMMS system, ideally SAP PM.
• Good understanding of health, safety and environmental standards within manufacturing.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively within a team environment.
• Continuous improvement mindset with experience supporting reliability and plant performance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown repairs across manufacturing equipment and site machinery.
• Diagnose and rectify mechanical faults to minimise downtime and maximise production output.
• Maintain conveyors, mixers, batching systems, hydraulics, pneumatics, gearboxes, motors and associated plant equipment.
• Complete routine inspections, servicing and condition monitoring activities.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve equipment reliability and efficiency.
• Assist with installation, modification and commissioning of new machinery and equipment.
• Carry out fabrication and welding activities where required.
• Ensure all maintenance activities are completed safely and in accordance with site procedures.
• Accurately record maintenance activities using the CMMS system.
• Work closely with production and engineering teams to support plant performance and uptime.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Fault finding

Hydraulics & Pneumatics

Conveyors & gearboxes

CMMS SAP PM experience

Health & safety awareness

Communication

Education

NVQ Level 3

Apprentice trained

Time-served engineer

Tools

SAP PM

Job description

Staffline is seeking a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer for a large UK manufacturing facility in the Burton upon Trent area. The role focuses on maintaining a wide range of heavy equipment, with no Sundays and limited Saturdays, and a salary of £53,500 plus overtime and benefits.

You will perform preventative and reactive maintenance, fault-finding, and improvements across conveyors, hydraulics, gearboxes and rotating machinery, ensuring safe, compliant operation and strong uptime performance.