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Maintenance Fitter – Have you just completed your Apprenticeship, are you Mid-Career or a Senior Engineer? 

We are looking For Fitters at all stages of their career to join our established mechanical maintenance team.

About Us: 

We are a well established and highly regarded engineering business with a track record of providing top quality products into a stable industry sector. With a low staff turnover, we offer a stable and supportive work environment for our employees and we don’t work shifts! 

Benefits Available for a Maintenance Fitter: 

As a valued member of our team, you will enjoy the following salary and benefits:

• Competitive Salary: c£36,000
• Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
• Company Funded Pension
• Fully Funded Sick Pay 
• Onsite Parking 
• Day Working (Monday – Friday)
• Opportunities for Career Advancement within a Stable Organisation

Duties of a Maintenance Fitter:

As a proven Maintenance Fitter 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 heavy engineering or process plant environment, which has required you to support machine tools, hydraulic valves, gearboxes and pumps.  

If in addition you have any tig welding or pipe fitting experience our projects team will also be able to utilise your skills, as we will if you also have additional experience of mentoring apprentices, issuing permits and managing statutory inspections. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Fitter:

Ideally you will have undertaken a formal Mechanical Apprenticeship but must be qualified to either a City & Guilds Level 3 or NVQ 3 standard mechanically. 

This is a great opportunity to move your career into an organisation that will offer you will not only an incredible benefits package, but also be secure in the knowledge that you will be in a stable working environment and classified as a Key Worker. 

The Maintenance Fitter role is commutable from Birmingham, Dudley, Halesowen, Oldbury, Smethwick, Wednesbury & West Bromwich.

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
• Significant experience of working with a maintenance background
• 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.