Night Shift Maintenance Technician — PLC & Fault Diagnosis

Aqumen Business Solutions; Long Lee; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Life assurance

Health benefits

Employee support and discounts

Canteen subsidies

Free onsite parking

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Aqumen Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of an established international manufacturing business to strengthen its night shift engineering team. The role is a Maintenance Technician, based on permanent night shifts in West Yorkshire.

We welcome engineers with either an electrical or mechanical bias. You will work across a varied range of production equipment, from legacy machinery to modern automated systems, helping improve reliability and keep production running safely.

Qualifications

• Time served engineering apprenticeship and ONC/City & Guilds Level 3 or equivalent.
• Minimum two years maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong electrical and/or mechanical fault finding and PLC diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose faults and repair production machinery, identifying the cause of failures.
• Respond safely to breakdowns and carry out planned preventative maintenance.
• Interpret electrical schematics, pneumatic diagrams and mechanical drawings.
• Carry out PLC fault finding and support equipment reliability improvements.
• Record maintenance activity accurately using the CMMS system.
• Follow safe isolation procedures and maintain high standards of safety and housekeeping.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Mechanical fault finding

PLC diagnostics

Root cause analysis

Teamwork & communication

Education

Engineering apprenticeship / ONC / City & Guilds L3

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Aqumen Recruitment is recruiting on behalf of an established international manufacturing business to strengthen its night shift engineering team. The role is a Maintenance Technician, based on permanent night shifts in West Yorkshire.

We welcome engineers with either an electrical or mechanical bias. You will work across a varied range of production equipment, from legacy machinery to modern automated systems, helping improve reliability and keep production running safely.