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MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

Job Description

We are a well-established and highly regarded business that specialises and manufactures a wide range of products for various applications in several industries, such as automotive with plans towards future growth.

This is a superb opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join a small Maintenance team. This is hands-on role, working both independently and within the site Maintenance Team. Engineering maintenance and servicing of site equipment work will involve air handling equipment, compressors, large ovens, ventilation systems, motors, burners, hydraulic presses and cutting systems.

Benefits

  • Base salary of £37,000 + Attendance Bonus 
  • Up to 23 days holiday + 8 Bank holidays
  • Company Pension
  • Hours are Monday to Friday Mornings 6am to 14.00pm / Afternoons 14.00pm – 22.00pm  
  • Yearly Bonus (Companies Discretion)
  • Overtime 
  • PPE/ Onsite Parking 
  • Job Security 

Key Duties

As a Maintenance Engineer, your key responsibilities will include: 

  • Suggest and promote process improvements to better the running of machinery and Processes
  • Engineering maintenance for the building
  • Supporting all on-going / New projects 
  • Commit to ensuring production lines are active through overtime if needed.

Requirements of a Maintenance Engineer 

To excel in this role, you must meet the following criteria: 

  • Previous experience in a fast-paced hands-on production environment preferred
  • Welding and fabrication experience required
  • Identify electrical faults. Read and work from circuit diagrams
  • Experience with 3-phase electrical systems

If you are a skilled and motivated Maintenance Engineer seeking a rewarding career in a technically diverse business, we invite you to apply.

This role is commutable from Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Nottingham and Newark on Trent

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

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Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Maintenance, Reliability & Service Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

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As a Maintenance Electrician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance tasks across our facility that will require you to hold a strong electrical background, however you ideally must possess a good grounding in the plastics sector within blow, extrusion, or injection moulding process. Maintenance Electricians with robot exposure with high-speed robot machines are at a distinct advantage.

Benefits: 

  • The package details for the role include a £50,000 + Paid Overtime salary.
  • Company Pension
  • Excellent Holiday Entitlement starting 20 and increasing. 
  • Bonus Scheme
  • Gym membership
  • Health Care Package

Requirements for Maintenance Electrician:

As a Maintenance Electrician you will have the responsibility for Installing, Maintaining, and Examining all equipment on site. You must be and have experience with:

  • Time served Electrical/Mechanical Engineer
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  • Working knowledge of maintenance systems
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We are a well-established and highly regarded business with a track record of providing top quality service into a stable and busy industry sector. With a low staff turnover, we offer a stable and supportive work environment for our employees.

This is a superb opportunity for a Service Engineer to join a business who are experts in machine installations. As a Service Engineer you will carry out those tasks necessary to achieve the objective of engineering maintenance and installation in accordance with the site HSE standards. 

Service Engineer Benefits

  • Salary up to £41,000 depending on experience. 
  • Overtime paid door to door 
  • Nest pension 
  • 22 holidays + statutory leave (Christmas shutdown also) 
  • Van provided for work and fuel card 
  • Tools provided. 
  • Work hours will vary depending on the work but core hours around 8am – 4pm (40 hour basic week). 
  • Opportunity to work within a small but stable team 

Key Duties

  • As a Service Engineer, your key responsibilities will include: 
  • Machine Maintenance & Breakdowns
  • Relocation and to support with the machine installation in new factories. 

Requirements of a Service Engineer

To excel in this role, you must meet the following criteria: 

  • You must possess the relevant mechanical qualifications Apprenticeship trained or equivalent within Mechanical Maintenance. 
  • Able to read from a drawing.
  • Have previously worked within the heavy industry. 
  • Previous experience gearboxes, conveyors, or material handling machinery.

If you are a skilled and motivated Service Engineer seeking a rewarding career in a technically diverse business, we invite you to apply.

This role is commutable from Derby, Nottingham, Mansfield, and Chesterfield

 

I am seeking to recruit a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer for one of the largest privately owned heavy Engineering & Fabrication businesses. As a Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer, you will provide technical advice, assistance and carry out a range of interventions to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the facility as well as completing machine malfunction rectification work and carry out the plant service schedules.

Working Monday to Thursday 6.00am – 3.45pm with 30 minutes unpaid lunch break with plenty of overtime offered also, the other benefits include:

  • £35,665 salary 
  • Automatically enrolled into a company pension scheme after 3 months.  The scheme is a defined contribution scheme with Aviva based on employee contributions of 5% of gross salary and a contribution of 4% from The Company.
  • 20 + 8 days Holiday 
  • Medicash Health Plan 

You must be qualified with formal Engineering accreditation (EITB), Academic qualifications (City & Guilds / BTEC), or the equivalent.

Some duties for the Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer role may involve:

  • Maintaining CNC machine tools 
  • Maintaining PLC controlled machinery (Siemens preferred)
  • Maintaining Pneumatics and hydraulics systems
  • Using planned preventative maintenance systems
  • Maintaining material handling conveyor systems
  • Completing electrical installation work
  • Ability to work consistently and accurately, to deadlines, to meet the demands of a manufacturing.

We would be keen to talk to Mechanical Maintenance Engineers and Maintenance Electricians who are commutable from Grantham, Melton Mowbray, Newark on Trent and Sleaford.

 

I am recruiting a superb opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join a company within the manufacturing industry. As a Maintenance Engineer you will carry out those tasks necessary to achieve the objective of engineering maintenance and installation in accordance with the site HSE standards.

Maintenance Engineer Benefits package includes:

  • Salary up to £40,000 for a single discipline and higher if you are Multi Skilled 
  • Company pension
  • Life assurance
  • 24 holidays + statutory leave (increase after 2 years' continued service)
  • Employee assistance programme, employee discounts and on goods, development opportunities
  • Close to motorway links and on-site parking
  • Sociable work hours currently working 6am – 2pm / 2pm – 10pm. 

You must possess the relevant electrical qualifications and experience to be able to work safely within a manufacturing environment. Have fundamental engineering mechanical knowledge and skills. Apprentice trained in Mechanical/Electrical engineering.

Key responsibilities for the Maintenance Engineers role include:

  • Maintaining a high-level awareness and commitment in the safety, health and environmental aspects of your work in complying with all relevant site procedures.

Carry out engineering activities in a safe manner, utilising appropriate personal protective equipment as specified.
Be involved in all safety initiatives, i.e. audits, incident reporting, shutdown safety initiative, etc.

We would be keen to talk to Maintenance Electricians and Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineers too. If you have hesitated about moving over the past few months, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that won’t be affected by any potential fallout from the current economic climate.

This Maintenance Engineer role is commutable from Derby, Nottingham, Chesterfield & Mansfield.

 

I am recruiting an excellent opportunity for a Maintenance Electrician to join a company within the manufacturing industry. You will be responsible for the plant equipment, facilities and building services repair, Electrical / Mechanical fault location and repair on motors, drives and controls.

Benefits package includes:

  • Salary up to £40,000
  • 24+ 8 days holiday
  • Pension
  • Sick Pay Scheme
  • Sociable work hours of 8.30am- 5pm with a view to going onto a 2-shift rotation at some point in the future

You must be qualified either electrically or mechanically and hold a Multi Skilled ability having gained your experience of supporting teams of Engineers within manufacturing industry. Other industries beneficial for the Maintenance Electricians role are packaging or printing.

Key responsibilities for the Maintenance Electricians role include:

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We would be keen to talk to Maintenance Engineers and Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineers too. If you have hesitated about moving over the past few months, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that won’t be affected by any potential fallout from the current economic climate. 

This role is commutable from Nottingham, Newark on Trent, Grantham, and Mansfield.

 

I am looking to recruit a Maintenance Engineer on an early and lates shift. This is an outstanding opportunity to join the UK subsidiary of a large multi-national company. This is a great role for someone who is hands-on, technical, and operational. As part of a top manufacturing group, you will be required to maintain plant and machinery to a high standard through PPM and proactively schedule maintenance works to maximise service levels.

The package details for the role of Maintenance Engineer include:

  • A salary banding that’s negotiable up to £45,000 depending on experience.
  • Company Pension with a salary sacrifice Scheme
  • Holidays starting at 23 and increasing to 28 with service. 

As a Maintenance Engineer this will be a high-pressured environment so the ability to be able to work well under pressure is a pre-requisite of the position, in addition the ideal candidate will be: 

  • PC Literate, good knowledge of Excel / Word / PowerPoint
  • General Maintenance Apprenticeship
  • Welding skills (Arc / Mig)
  • Have knowledge to read engineering drawings.
  • 17th Edition is desirable.
  • Experience of Mitsubishi & Alan Bradley PLC’s

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Join a distinguished organisation operating from one of the largest sites in the Midlands region, known for its stability and commitment to excellence. 

We are seeking a skilled Static Site Electrician to join our Maintenance team and contribute to our legacy of success.

With a proven track record of low staff turnover, we take pride in nurturing a supportive work environment where employees thrive.  Our team oriented approach, led by a manager who values collaboration, fosters growth and skill development. 

Benefits: 

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

  • Starting Salary of £46,500 (which increases with service to £52K) 
  • Outstanding Company Pension Scheme
  • Paid Overtime at Premium Rates 
  • Share Options 
  • Annual Bonus 
  • Product Discount
  • Free Parking 
  • The Opportunity to work within a bright, clean and NON manufacturing environment.

Duties of a Site Electrician 

Working rotating shifts and as a proven Multi Skilled Site Electrician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance to a wide range of equipment which can range from Air Handling Units through to large pieces of Electrical plant.  

Requirements of a Site Electrician 

  • Have a proven background in undertaking planned and reactive maintenance to a range of site services equipment.  
  • Have experience of supporting emergency back up generation plant 
  • Have experience of supporting a wide range of lighting and power (Ideally both LV & HV)
  • Qualified Electrically to City & Guilds or NVQ level 3
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This is a great opportunity to move your career into a stable market sector, where you will not only gain an incredible benefits package and ongoing training and development. 

The Site Electrician role is commutable from Birmingham, Coventry & Solihull

 

I am looking to recruit a full time and permanent Maintenance Supervisor to join an experienced and dedicated Engineering Team near Banbury on days Monday – Friday. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to utilise their engineering and supervisory skills. This role would suit someone ambitious and ready to take the next step in their career.

The package details for the role of Maintenance Supervisor include:

  • Salary up to £58,000 depending on experience.
  • 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday days 
  • Pension is 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 plus bank holidays after 5 years’ service.

This role is to support the site Engineering Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for allocating, co-ordinating, and assessing all shift Engineering work tasks to ensure that maximum value. They will supervise the Engineering team and will also provide relief legal duty holder cover for the Engineering Manager.

Desirable Skills involve:

  • High volume manufacturing experience to include continuous processes and batch processes
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  • Experience in electrical and mechanical fault finding
  • Planned maintenance systems and procedures development experience
  • Well-developed and well-rounded management and leadership skills, being a true team player
  • Proven continuous improvement skills
  • Apprentice trained Electrical Engineer with Mechanical & Electronic / PLC skills
  • 17th / 18th Edition qualification

The Maintenance Supervisor role is commutable from Leicester, Northampton, Corby, Kettering, and Peterborough.

 

Exciting opportunity to join a specialist manufacturing organisation based in Greater Manchester, an opportunity for a Maintenance engineer to join an already established maintenance team and an organisation that continues to grow and have great plans for the future.  

This is an opportunity work with some finest machine tools and equipment throughout the UK and join a team on maintenance engineers who have been with the organisation for years, who can offer support and knowledge as and when needed.  Being not only part of the team but part of the family that continues to grow. 

The Maintenance engineer position is commutable from the following locations: Warrington / St Helen / Preston / Wigan 

Benefits the Maintenance Engineer will receive: 

  • Salary: £48,639
  • 8% Pension scheme 
  • 32 days holiday 
  • Secured cark parking. 
  • Early finish on Friday 

Shift the maintenance engineer will be required to work: Double Days – Mornings and Afternoons – Early finishes on Friday. 

Experience required: 

  • We are looking for a Mechanical biased maintenance engineer. Holding a Minimum of 5 years within Engineering. 
  • Must hold experience with CNC Control systems, ideally FANUC / Siemens / YASNAC 
  • Experienced with both Hydraulics & Pneumatics 
  • Understanding of technical manuals and Engineering Drawings 
  • Able to Utilise and update CMM’s. 
  • Previous experience within Machine shop Environment 
  • Apprentice trained holding a City & Guilds /ONC/HNC/HND in mechanical engineering. 

This position will also require you to work within confined spaces, on occasions the position can be demanding so we are looking for a Driven individual who is able to work Quickly and under pressure and can meet deadline.

 

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Electrician.

This is an opportunity to join a leading Manufacturing organisation, known worldwide, supplying into Food & Manufacturing organisations. A company who continues to grow and pride themselves on a good working environment.  

The maintenance electrician will be joining an already established Maintenance team and will have support from Senior engineers on site.  

This role is commutable from: Stockport / Stoke-On-Trent / Macclesfield / Denton 

Shift the maintenance electrician will be required to work Monday to Thursday – the option to work 1pm till 11pm or 2pm till 12 o clock.

Benefits: 

  • Salary: £38,000 - £40,000  
  • Pension
  • 21+8 Days holiday
  • Overtime
  • Flexible working hours / 4-day week.   

Industry: Manufacturing / Packaging organisation   

Maintenance Electrician Duties:

  • Trouble shooting and Fault Finding on various machines including Injection Moulding Machines, Extruders, Grinders, Rotational Moulding Machines, and associated ancillaries.
  • Planned Preventative Maintenance.
  • Identifying parts required to carry out repairs and providing details to the Maintenance Manager.
  • Using blueprints, wiring diagrams and manufacturer’s installation manuals to complete projects.
  • Testing of fixed installations.
  • Some building maintenance such as lighting & small power.
  • Installation of 3 phase supplies & associated switchgear.
  • Highlighting potential problems with aging switchgear and advising the correct course of action for rectification.

Maintenance Electrician Requirements:

  • Experience with Siemens and Mitsubishi PLC’s. – Strong fault-finding abilities 
  • Experience with Grinders, Extruders, Injection Moulding machinery. 
  • Ideally experience within Single and 3 phase systems. 
  • Dealing with some Plant maintenance such as Lighting and Small power. 
  • Must be Apprentice trained, holding a Formal qualification in Electrical engineering. 
  • 17th or 18th Edition trained/compliant.
 

I am recruiting a great opportunity for a proven Service Engineer to join a well-respected and specialist employer. As Service Engineer you will support with the ongoing servicing and maintenance of the product which is very key to the safety. Utilising the clients in house systems to meet customer expectations you will be responsible for carrying out on-site servicing in line with company standards. 

This is a Monday – Friday role 9am – 5pm with benefits including: 

  • Salary £33,990, monthly paid. 
  • If based in London then London Weighting will be applied on top. 
  • Company car, or allowance, with a fuel card. + company credit card
  • There may be some overnight stays.
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Birthday off
  • Xmas shutdown
  • Annual leave buy and sell scheme
  • Company sick pay after probation period
  • Pension salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Life assurance after 12 months
  • Career progression and development
  • Active social committee

The ideal Service Engineer must have a full clean driving licence. Be flexible and willing to travel at short notice as appropriate and have an ability to perform under pressure. Some key duties of the role include: 

  • Planned and reactive on-site servicing using company checklists in line with company procedures. 
  • Installation and maintenance of company products on customer sites. 
  • Generating and validating leads from service visits for the business development team to follow up. 
  • Working with the quality assurance team to address on-site issues. 
  • Attend regular service meetings via teams and head office. 
  • Planning and booking of servicing work utilising our service planning system to meet customer expectation and servicing dates.
  • Utilising customer servicing and facilities management systems to ensure compliance of servicing documentation.

The role of Service Engineer is commutable from Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and North London. There may be some national travel. 

If you have hesitated about moving over the past few months, this is a great opportunity to join an organisation that won’t be affected by any potential fallout from the current economic climate.

 

I have a unique opportunity for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer to join a global food giant in the Wolverhampton area. You will join the team as a maintenance technical trainer you will take learn and on board all OEM and technical training and develop this into diagnosis packages for team members to follow. 

My client is looking for a maintenance technical trainer to join their team on a Continental shift pattern. The right person will be a multi-skilled engineer with strong electrical abilities. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer looking to take a step up in their career. 

Maintenance Technical Trainer Benefits:

  • Salary £50,974.56 
  • Premium overtime rates. 
  • Generous holiday entitlement. 
  • 12% Employer Pension Contribution. 
  • Training and progression opportunities.  
  • Xmas Bonus. 
  • Cycle to work. 
  • Volunteering days off. (Paid) 

Maintenance Technical Trainer Duties include:

  • Continental shift rota. 
  • Attend OEM and technical training. 
  • Take technical lead in fault finding and develop step by step guides for engineers to follow. 
  • Create training logs for engineers and apprentices. 
  • Hands on maintenance, preventive and reactive. 
  • Record engineering work with SAP. 
  • Support and cover for engineering supervisors to achieve departmental goals. 

As a Maintenance Technical Trainer Requirements: 

  • Apprentice trained. (Mechanical or Electrical). 
  • Electrically qualified. 
  • Experience with PLC’s ideally Alan Bradley. 
  • Strong IT skills.   
  • Strong fault-finding capabilities. 
  • Health & Safety / Food Safety. 
  • Be knowledgeable in using quality assurance systems and standards. 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

This Maintenance Technical Trainer position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Dudley, Kingswinford, Stourbridge, Wombourne, Bilston, Brierley Hill, and surrounding areas.