Workshop Technician / Mechanical

Forward Assist Recruitment; Burnley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Forward Assist Recruitment in Burnley is seeking a hands-on Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer to build, repair and upgrade highly automated machinery used in the pipeline and coatings sector. This is real, practical engineering work in a focused team.

You’ll join a specialist engineering group with around five years of mechanical experience expected. Key tasks include machine builds, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, fault finding, assembly, testing, and reading engineering drawings.

Qualifications

• Around 5 years of mechanical engineering experience.
• Strong fitting and machine-build experience.
• Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge.
• Fabrication and welding experience.
• Fault diagnosis and maintenance experience.
• General machining skills.
• Ability to read engineering drawings.
• Basic electrical understanding.
• Experience working alongside Design Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Mechanical fitting and complete machine builds.
• Hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Fault finding and refurbishment.
• Hydraulic pipework installation.
• Testing and commissioning.
• Design upgrades and engineering improvements.
• Fabrication and welding.
• Preventative maintenance.
• Reading technical drawings and specifications.
• General machining and component modification.

Skills

Mechanical fitting

Machine-build experience

Hydraulics

Pneumatics

Fault diagnosis

Fabrication and welding

Preventative maintenance

Reading drawings

General machining

Component modification

Job description

Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer

Location: Burnley

Salary: £36,000

Hours: Full-time

If you’d rather be building, fixing and improving machinery than staring at the same production line every day, this one is worth a look.

We’re looking for an experienced Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer to join a specialist engineering team in Burnley, building and maintaining highly automated equipment used within the pipeline and coatings industry.

This is proper hands‑on engineering.

You’ll be involved in:

• Mechanical fitting and complete machine builds
• Hydraulics and pneumatics
• Fault finding and refurbishment
• Hydraulic pipework installation
• Testing and commissioning
• Design upgrades and engineering improvements
• Fabrication and welding
• Preventative maintenance
• Reading technical drawings and specifications
• General machining and component modification

You may occasionally support installation or refurbishment work at other UK or overseas locations.

What We’re Looking For

• Around 5 years’ mechanical engineering experience
• Strong fitting and machine‑build experience
• Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge
• Fabrication and welding experience
• Fault diagnosis and maintenance experience
• General machining skills
• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Basic electrical understanding
• Experience working alongside Design Engineers

You’ll need to be practical, mechanically minded, safety‑conscious and happy working independently or as part of a wider engineering team.

Most importantly, we want someone who gets genuine satisfaction from standing back at the end of a build and thinking:

“Yep. I built that.”

Dianne West

Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds