Weekend Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Kingston Barnes Ltd; Poole; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingston Barnes Ltd is offering a Weekend Mechanical Maintenance Engineer role based in Poole. You will maintain a range of machinery, balancing planned and reactive tasks while contributing to PPM setup and project installations.

The position requires a mechanically biased background with pneumatic, hydraulic, and pump experience; welding is ideal. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be willing to work weekends.

Qualifications

• Mechanical maintenance background with hands-on experience in maintenance of plant and equipment.
• Experience with electro-mechanical systems in a manufacturing setting is beneficial.
• Welding experience is ideal but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Carry out electro-mechanical maintenance on site machinery, both planned and reactive.
• Assist in setting up weekly preventive maintenance (PPMs) and project-based installation work.
• Perform front-line maintenance in the workshop, including light fabrication, welding, and machining.

Skills

Pneumatics

Hydraulics

Pumps

Welding

Education

Mechanical apprenticeship or similar

Job description

Weekend Mechanical Maintenance Engineer in Poole

Are you a Mechanically biased maintenance engineer looking for an exciting opportunity?

Do you want a better work life balance and work only 32 hours a week before overtime?

Are you happy to work over the weekend?

Does the idea of working on a mixture of machinery within a global business appeal to you?

Do you want to work in a challenging environment that allows you to work on various machines and processes?

Then get in touch! Kingston Barnes has an exciting opportunity for a Weekend Mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer for one of our manufacturing clients. The Engineer is required to undertake mechanically biased maintenance on traditional engineering equipment, both reactive and planned.

The Company:

With the company's success continuing to grow steadily, they are looking at expanding the work force on site in order to maintain production levels. The business has shown consistent growth and is constantly developing new systems to maintain their competitive advantage in existing markets.

The Role:

Within the remit of the role you will be undertaking electro-mechanical maintenance on a range of machinery on site. The role is split between planned and reactive maintenance within the facility, and all engineers will be actively involved in helping set up PPM's weekly and installation work on a project basis. You will get to work on all equipment within the factory.

The will revolve around front-line mechanical maintenance as well as working in the workshop (fitting, welding, fabrication, light manual machining) and so experience working in a pressurised maintenance role is required. You will also take on planned maintenance activities.

Requirements:

• Mechanical Maintenance background – Pneumatics, Hydraulics, PumpS
  • Worked within manufacturing or similar
  • Happy working over the weekend
  • Welding experience (ideal)
  • Mechanical apprenticeship or similar
• Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK to apply for this position