Senior Engineer – Days - Ashbourne

RecruitMe; Compton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workplace pension

Life assurance

Employee wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Long-term career progression

Extensive employee benefits

Job summary

RecruitMe is recruiting a Senior Maintenance Engineer for a heavy industrial feed mill in Ashbourne. The role is Monday-to-Friday with day shifts and no regular nights, focusing on reliability, preventative maintenance and plant safety.

You will lead the Mill Engineering team in maintaining large motors, drives and conveyors, with responsibilities including planning maintenance, reducing downtime and overseeing contractor work. Prior experience in heavy industrial environments is essential.

Qualifications

• Experienced engineer with strong practical fault-finding and maintenance skills.
• Senior-level candidate with ownership of engineering problems and coordination of contractors.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective planned maintenance and adherence to schedules.
• Reduce downtime through preventative maintenance and prompt engineering response.
• Maintain breakdown call-out plan and report maintenance KPIs.
• Manage pressure systems in line with legal and insurance requirements.
• Support maintenance purchasing and stock control.
• Work within maintenance budgets and permit-to-work systems.
• Ensure safety standards and contractor compliance.
• Identify reliability improvements and communicate with teams.

Skills

Heavy machinery maintenance

Mechanical engineering

Multi-skilled maintenance

Industrial engineering

Process engineering

Milling

Bulk handling

Agricultural engineering

Manufacturing

Quarrying

Recycling

Materials handling

Other heavy industrial environments

Job description

Monday to Friday | Days | 42 Hours Per Week

Are you an experienced Senior Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer looking for a permanent Monday-to-Friday day role working with heavy industrial machinery?

We are recruiting for a Senior Engineer to join the engineering team at an established feed mill in Ashbourne.

This is a genuine heavy machinery engineering position where you will take a leading role in maintaining plant reliability, reducing downtime and ensuring the mill's engineering systems remain safe, compliant and operational.

This is a feed mill engineering environment – not a food production or kill factory.

Working Hours

Monday to Thursday: 8:00am–5:00pm

Friday: 8:00am–4:30pm

42 hours per week

Days only

Monday-to-Friday working

Some on-call support may occasionally be required

For experienced engineers looking to move away from nights, rotating shifts or continental patterns, this offers an attractive permanent weekday engineering schedule.

The Role

Working as part of the Mill Engineering team, you will help ensure the site's heavy machinery and engineering infrastructure operate safely, reliably and efficiently.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring an effective planned maintenance programme is in place and adhered to

• Reducing production downtime through preventative maintenance and effective engineering response

• Supporting and maintaining an effective breakdown call-out plan

• Providing regular reports on mill maintenance performance and engineering KPIs

• Maintaining pressure systems in accordance with legal and insurance requirements

• Supporting maintenance purchasing and engineering stock control

• Working within agreed maintenance budgets

• Maintaining and administering the site's Permit to Work system

• Ensuring maintenance teams and contractors comply fully with health and safety requirements

• Supporting contractor management across engineering activities

• Identifying reliability issues and opportunities for engineering improvement

• Monitoring and controlling environmental risks associated with engineering activities

• Ensuring colleagues understand their responsibilities under site risk-management procedures

• Supporting the wider engineering team with complex breakdowns and maintenance requirements

Heavy Machinery Engineering

This is a practical, hands-on engineering role within a working mill environment.

You will be working around large industrial machinery, motors, drives, conveyors, mechanical systems, process equipment and associated plant infrastructure.

We are particularly interested in engineers who are comfortable operating within a heavy industrial environment and who understand the importance of plant reliability, preventative maintenance and safe systems of work.

What We're Looking For

We would particularly like to hear from experienced engineers with backgrounds in:

• Heavy Machinery Maintenance

• Mechanical Engineering

• Multi-Skilled Maintenance

• Industrial Engineering

• Process Engineering

• Milling

• Bulk Handling

• Agricultural Engineering

• Manufacturing

• Quarrying

• Recycling

• Materials Handling

• Other heavy industrial environments

You should be an experienced engineer with strong practical fault-finding and maintenance skills.

For this senior-level opportunity, you should also be comfortable:

• Taking ownership of engineering problems

• Prioritising maintenance activity

• Supporting other engineers

• Coordinating contractors

• Working with permit-to-work systems

• Maintaining high health and safety standards

• Identifying opportunities to improve plant reliability

• Communicating effectively with operational and engineering teams

Candidates with transferable heavy engineering experience from the Armed Forces are also strongly encouraged to apply.

What's in it for you?

You will join an established organisation offering an extensive employee benefits package alongside:

Monday-to-Friday working

Daytime hours

No regular night shifts

Permanent employment

Extensive employee benefits

Workplace pension

Life assurance

Employee wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Long-term career progression

A varied senior engineering role

The opportunity to work with substantial heavy industrial machinery

Some benefits may be subject to eligibility or site-specific arrangements.

Why Apply?

Monday to Friday | Days | Heavy Machinery | Permanent Role | Extensive Benefits | Established Engineering Team

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Maintenance Engineer who wants a hands‑on role with responsibility for the reliability and performance of a working heavy industrial mill.

If you're based around Ashbourne, Derby, Uttoxeter, Belper, Matlock or the surrounding area, we would like to hear from you.