MAINTENANCE ELECTRICIAN

Probe Technical are looking to recruit a full time and permanent Tool Room Engineer to join a busy fast paced manufacturing environment that supply to a range of industry sectors such as garden, home, catering, aerospace and automotive. You will be ensuring optimum performance and safe operation of all Mould tools to assist in the efficient running of the plant whilst maintaining good housekeeping. 

The package details for the role of Tool Room Engineer include the below and further at interview:

• Salary £35,000 rising to £38,000 after probation 
• Monday – Friday 8am – 4.30pm 
• Company pension matched up to 8%
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays 
• Health care plan 
• Excellent discount on company products 

You must hold a time served apprenticeship in toolmaking, machining or engineering. Knowledge of injection moulding process is beneficial and being able to read technical drawings. 

Other key duties and experience for the Tool Room Engineer role involve:  

• Carries out breakdown maintenance on all mould tools, jigs, fixtures etc.
• Carries out preventative maintenance on all mould tools, jigs, fixtures etc.
• Carries out projects associated with tools, tooling and/or manufacturing equipment as requested by the Tool Room Manager.
• Provides shift cover in the Tool Room when required.
• Attends college/training courses where applicable.
• Ensures conformance to the Company Quality System procedures as documented.

The Tool Room Engineer role is commutable from Oxford, Banbury, Daventry, Southam and Buckingham 

Probe Technical are looking to recruit a full time and permanent Maintenance Electrician to join an experienced and dedicated Engineering team near Wellingborough on a Monday – Friday day shift with a 37.5-hour week. The ideal candidate will provide both mechanical and electrical service to the Production Department in terms of maintaining machines and site services to achieve minimal downtime as well as reduced engineering costs. 

The package details for the role of Maintenance Electrician include the below and further at interview:

• Salary from £40,000+
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday 
• 3% / 5% pension on Auto enrolment 
• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays 
• Premium overtime rates 

Along with a HNC in electrical or electronic engineering and training in 17th / 18th Edition IEE wiring regulations, or equivalent. You must be a multi-skilled engineer with Electrical bias with either print/packaging / FMCG / food experience. Experience of PLC’s (programming and fault-finding), process controls and AC / DC and Servo drives.

Other key duties for the Maintenance Electrician role involve:  

• Undertake work of any kind as directed by the Engineering Supervisor
• Work on both mechanical and electrical plant and carry out installation work.
• Carry out planned preventive maintenance to reduce future unplanned downtime.
• Respond to unplanned breakdowns, ensuring downtime is minimised.
• Undertake facilities maintenance where necessary.
• Supervise sub-contractors where necessary.

The Maintenance Electrician role is commutable from Northampton, Daventry, Lutterworth and Coventry

Are you an experienced and qualified Electrical Maintenance Engineer seeking a rewarding career in a stable non-manufacturing environment, that doesn’t require you to work shifts? 

We are a reputable and established company operating within a stable environment. Our close knit team boasts an exceptionally low staff turnover, creating a supportive and collaborative workplace where your skills and expertise will be valued.

Benefits: 

In return for your skills and experience, we offer:-

• Starting Salary of £36,000
• DAY WORKING 
• Early Friday Finish 
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Company Funded Pension
• Excellent Holiday Entitlement

Duties of an Electrical Maintenance Engineer   

As a proven Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across our plant, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a fast paced manufacturing, process or production environment.

Requirements of an Electrical Maintenance Engineer   

Ideally you will be apprentice trained but must be qualified Electrically to a City & Guilds or NVQ standard and ideally have some understanding of Plc Controls. 

However you must be multi skilled in your abilities. Having gained your Maintenance experience from supporting plant and equipment within a fast paced manufacturing, process or production environment. 

The Electrical Maintenance role is commutable from Aldridge, Bloxwich, Cannock & Walsall. 

We are a well respected employer within the engineering sector and are seeking to recruit junior maintenance engineer to join day shift team.

If you are currently in an operator role and have some basic maintenance experience and are keen to develop these skills further (with our support) the role will see you progress into a full time maintenance post.

Benefits: 

In return for your engineering and maintenance skills and experience, we offer:-

• Starting Salary of £32,000
• DAY WORKING 
• Company Funded Pension
• Life Assurance 
• Healthcare 
• Excellent Holiday Entitlement
• Product Discount 
• Early Friday Finish

Duties of a Junior Maintenance Engineer  

As a proven Engineer you will be required to operate our equipment, allied to undertaking both planned and basic reactive maintenance tasks that will require you to hold good multi skilled abilities linked to both hydraulic and pneumatic skills.

Requirements of a Junior Maintenance Engineer 

Ideally you will be apprentice trained and hold formal electrical or mechanical qualifications to a City & Guilds or NVQ standard, having gained your operating and maintenance experience within a fast moving manufacturing or production environment, however we are keen to offer you support to continue to develop your maintenance skills. 

The role is commutable from Aldridge, Brownhills, Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley, Hednesford, Lichfield, Shenstone & Tamworth

I'm looking for a multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer in the Stoke area. We’re working closely to identify an Engineer that is qualified to a minimum level 3 in an engineering discipline. You will be part of a big multi-disciplined maintenance team on a continental shift rota. They will offer you a great package starting at £51,400 + shift cover premiums and OT. They also offer an extensive benefits package including a matched pension of up to 10% and training courses such as mech to elec and PLC training. 

My client is a British firm that operates across the UK for a wider group, and they can offer you a secure position packed with benefits during an uncertain period. 

Maintenance Engineer Benefits: 

• £51,364.68
• Shift cover rates (+£85 per shift). 
• Pension matched up to 10% 
• 24 days holiday. 
• Cycle to work. 
• Discounted products. 
• Access to health and dental services. 
• X4 death in service. 
• Employee assistance programmes. 
• Training and development (PLC courses etc). 

Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

• Continental shift (2 days – 2 nights).  
• Assist with breakdowns. 
• Planned and reactive maintenance. 
• Improving and maintaining production equipment. 
• Updating CMMS. 
• Fault diagnostic and repair. 
• Continuous improvement projects. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

• Recognised engineering qualifications.  (NVQ Level 3 as minimum). 
• Electrical qualifications would be a bonus. 
• Apprentice trained. 
• FMCG experience. 
• Knowledge around pneumatics. 
• Knowledge with packaging machinery (advantageous). 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Stoke-on-Trent, Market Drayton, Crewe, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Stafford, and surrounding areas. 

Service Engineer (Mechanically Biased) – Blackburn Based 

Are you a skilled Service Engineer – mechanically biased looking for a new challenge? Want to work with a company that values experience, offers variety, and gets you home for a long weekend every week?

We’re on the lookout for an Apprentice-Trained Service Engineer with a strong mechanical bias to join an established team. Based in Blackburn, you’ll travel to key customer sites across Bristol, Scunthorpe, Cumbria, and Leicester, providing top-tier service and support.

Location: Blackburn (with travel to Bristol, Scunthorpe, Cumbria & Leicester)
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 07:30am – 5:00pm (4-day working week!)

Benefits for the Service Engineer

• Salary: Offer a Salary from £35,000 - £40,000 
• Overtime Available 
• Company Van
• Full-Time, Permanent
• Pension 
• 20 + 8 Days Annual Leave 
• iPad
• Company Credit Card
• All Expenses Covered
• PPE

Experience & Requirements for the Service Engineer.  

• Apprentice trained and qualified to Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering (essential)
• Experience in sewage treatment, recycling plants, or heavy engineering environments is highly desirable
• Comfortable with UK-wide travel (Monday–Thursday)
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated with excellent customer service abilities
• Servicing, repairing, and maintaining mechanical equipment on customer sites
• Providing technical support and ensuring machinery runs efficiently and safely
• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance
• Working closely with site teams to ensure high standards are met.

We are seeking to recruit a Service Engineer (Mobile Plant Engineer) for one of the largest privately owned Engineering businesses in Europe. This is an exciting opportunity for a Service Engineer to join their manufacturing team based at any of the facilities in the UK. 

You will be responsible for ensuring plant availability and engineering resource is available when required to assist the operational function at any location. You will provide technical advice, assistance and intervention to ensure the safe and efficient operation of all plant assets as well as carrying out machine malfunction rectification work.  

Benefits for the Service Engineer role include:

• Working 37 hours a week, over a 4-day week! Monday to Thursday: 7.00am to 4.45pm
• Hourly rate of £19.86 
• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Pension is 5% employee and 4 % employer
• Company van provided 
• Overtime Available 
• Support in furthering your career with advanced programmes 

A general level of education together with EITB Certificate of Craftsmanship or equivalent and an IEE 17th/ 18th edition wiring regulations certificate. Must have a mechanical and electrical maintenance background preferably within a manufacturing environment. Duties for the Service Engineer include: 

• Able to demonstrate practical experience of machine tools, maintaining PLC controlled machinery (Siemens preferred), pneumatics and hydraulics systems, material handling conveyor systems, electrical installation work and planned preventative maintenance systems.
• Maintain all plant assets and conduct a regular PPM service and carry out machine malfunction correction work to ensure plant and equipment is available to meet the operational demands placed upon it in a safe and efficient manner.
• Oversee and participate in all large installations and machine removals/re-positioning where required

The role of Service Engineer is commutable from anywhere in the UK as it is a mobile role.

A fantastic new opportunity for an electrically-biased Maintenance Engineer to join a leading specialist manufacturer. This is an opportunity to join an established organisation who have 50+ years within the industry. This is an award-winning organisation who hold a very strong track record. 

This is an opportunity for a driven, motivated Engineer who is confident and holds strong electrical abilities, an opportunity to join an already established maintenance team. 

The Maintenance Electrician role is commutable from the following locations:  Rochdale / Bolton / Manchester / Oldham 

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

• Salary: £48,961    
• 6% Pension scheme 
• Life Assurance 
• 33days holiday
• Medical Care 
• Healthcare
• Overtime 

Shift in place: Days – Monday to Friday. 7:30am till 4pm – Early finish on a Friday. 

Call out system in place – you will be required to work a 1in5 call out system. 

Duties and requirements the Maintenance electrician will hold and be responsible for: 

• Previous experience within a similar role is essential to this role. 
• Strong fault-finding abilities. 
• Prove experience within a manufacturing environment. 
• Proven experience with: AC & DC Drives, Installation experience, Wire testing, Panel Building, Instrumentation. 
• Experienced with Siemens PLC’s – strong fault-finding abilities – Programming would be at an advantage.  
• Planned preventive maintenance. 
• Carry out routine servicing and inspection on all production machinery. 
• Carry out essential testing of equipment and systems. 
• Ideally holding experience with ATEX equipment. 
• Ideally, we are looking for a 70/30 split as there will be some mechanical requirements. 
• We are looking for an Apprentice trained maintenance electrician. 
• Holding a Formal qualification in Electrical engineering – City & Guilds Level 3 or NVQ Level 3 
• 17th / 18th IEE Wiring regulations. 
• City & Guilds 2391 Testing 
• UK Driving licence required / Travel to alternative sites required – all site located in within 5Miles of one another. 
• Must be happy to work the required call out system. Working 1in5 calls – this is split between engineers. 

Probe Technical are looking to recruit a full time and permanent Purchasing Coordinator to join a very busy production facility near Banbury. This is a fast-paced role that needs high attention in the small team. You must be a motivated individual who will be able to direct and coordinate the purchase of a range of materials for the Company whilst ensuring that they are working in accordance with specifications, budgets and agreed quality standards.

The package details for the role of Procurement Coordinator include the below and further at interview:

• Salary £32,000 - £35,000 depending on experience 
• Hours: 09:00 – 17:00 Monday to Friday, 1 hour lunch, 35 hours per week
• Pension – 3% paid via salary sacrifice, saving you tax and NI contributions
• Annual Salary Reviews – an annual pay review is conducted every January 
• Holiday –23 days plus Bank Holidays, rising to 25 after 5 years’ service 
• Family friendly – Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave pay, as well as an annual family fun day 
• Death in service benefit – 2 x annual salary

Along with 2 years Procurement experience ideally in a manufacturing environment; you will need excellent communication skills, with an ability to balance conflicting demands. Excellent time management with an ability to remain calm under pressure in an ever-changing environment.

Other key duties for the Purchasing Coordinator role involve:  

• Analyse the daily stock requirement report spreadsheet, placing the necessary purchase orders using Suppliers/Pricing Structures set up by the Buyers whilst maintaining safety stocks and not exceeding stock parameters or warehouse capacity
• Monitor purchase orders to ensure that materials are confirmed, delivered on time, at the agreed price, within agreed specification and comply with the company’s quality standards.
• Maintain regular contact with suppliers to resolve any problems to meet production requirements. 
• Maintain and update raw material ‘Goods In’ schedule for the Warehouse Department, keeping within daily and weekly delivery quotas and ensure regular communication to minimise any adverse factors that may lead to missed production schedules and transport deadlines. 
• Work with Accounts and Buyers to resolve invoice queries. 

We would be keen to also speak to Purchasing Assistants, Procurement Coordinators and Buyers. This role is commutable from Oxford, Banbury, Northampton and Coventry.