Shift Maintenance Fitter (Days & Nights) – Heavy Industry

Andrews Recruitment Group Limitted; Grays; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking a Shift Maintenance Fitter on a permanent basis at a busy Essex manufacturing site. You will perform planned and reactive maintenance on production machinery to ensure safe, reliable operation.

The role demands hands-on mechanical skills, fault diagnosis, fitment of bearings, shafts and related components, with opportunities for welding and pipefitting support and a strong emphasis on health and safety.

Qualifications

• Experience in mechanical maintenance within manufacturing or heavy industry.
• Ability to diagnose mechanical faults and perform repairs on production equipment.
• Comfortable working independently in a production environment.
• Experience using maintenance management or CMMS systems.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance across production machinery.
• Respond to mechanical breakdowns and reactive maintenance requests.
• Maintain and replace bearings, shafts, rollers and other mechanical components.
• Diagnose faults and perform effective mechanical repairs.
• Use hand tools, bearing presses and specialist fitting equipment.
• Support plant reliability and reduce downtime.
• Carry out general mechanical maintenance across the site; assist with welding, fabrication and pipefitting when required.

Skills

Mechanical maintenance

Fault finding

Independent work

CMMS usage

Health & safety

Tools

CMMS software

Bearing presses

Job description

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking a Shift Maintenance Fitter on a permanent basis at a busy Essex manufacturing site. You will perform planned and reactive maintenance on production machinery to ensure safe, reliable operation.

The role demands hands-on mechanical skills, fault diagnosis, fitment of bearings, shafts and related components, with opportunities for welding and pipefitting support and a strong emphasis on health and safety.