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MAINTENANCE ENGINEER

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How does a great benefits package and genuine training and development with a superb employer sound?  We are currently assisting a leading global engineering organisations based in North-West in their search for a Maintenance Engineer, who is ideally driven and ambitious to progress into a multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer.  This is a fantastic opportunity where the company will develop the Engineer, helping them achieve new levels within their career. Are you ready to take on an exciting new challenge?

This Maintenance engineer’s role is commutable from the following locations: Preston / Burnley / Blackburn / Blackpool  

Benefits the Maintenance Engineer will receive: 

  • Salary: £38.196.10  
  • Pension: 6% employer – 6% employee 
  • Life assurance x3 
  • 25+8days
  • Employee Assistance program 
  • Free Parking & Electric Charging points. 
  • Training & Progression opportunities

Shift the Maintenance engineer will be required to work:  Double Days – 6am till 2pm and 2pm till 10pm – Monday to Friday 

Responsibilities & Requirements: 

  • Reacting to breakdowns mechanical and electrical
  • Looking for Multi-skilled Split – Mechanically biased – Roughly 60/40 Split. 
  • Experienced with: Hydraulics & Pneumatics / Gearboxes / Conveyor systems and Lifting equipment. 
  • Electrical requirements: Fault finding abilities with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC’s, Motors, and Drives – AC & DC – Able to read electrical and mechanical drawings. 
  • Ideally you will hold experience within a Heavy Engineering Plant – Manufacturing Plant. 
  • Keeping accurate records of activities and stores requisitions
  • Completing planned maintenance activities and installations
  • Supporting business projects when required
  • Attending meetings when required
  • Must be Apprentice trained. 
  • Ideally holding a BTEC – ONC / HNC / NVQ Leve 3 in mechanical or electrical engineering 

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

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If you believe that your skills and experience match what we are looking for please call me or APPLY and I will be in touch.

Should you want to learn more about any of our MAINTENANCE, RELIABILITY & SERVICE ENGINEERING vacancies, or should you just want to discuss your particular needs, then please do not hesitate to contact me to have an informal, confidential chat.

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

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Maintenance electrician to join a Manufacturing Specialist within the Greater Manchester Area, are you looking to join a well-established company, a company who Design and manufacture and are a leading UK Organisation. 

This is an opportunity to join a company who continue to Grow, a company that drive a good working environment. The wellbeing of employees is of high priority, and they always look to develop and progress individuals inhouse. 

Shift the maintenance electrician will be required to work: 8am till 4:30pm 

The maintenance electrician role is commutable from: Warrington / Preston / Bolton / Wigan 

Benefits the Maintenance electrician will receive:

  • Salary: £45,931.00
  • 23+8days holiday
  • 8% Pension
  • Health care. 

Ideally the Maintenance Electrician will hold the following: 

  • Previous experience within an ATEX Chemical or Process type industry 
  • COMAH experience would be at an advantage. 
  • Reactive maintenance 
  • Trouble shooting 
  • Planned preventative maintenance. 
  • Electrical infrastructure systems i.e., Single and 3 phase systems 
  • Instrumentation experience 
  • There is also preventative maintenance work which typically includes testing of alarms, electrical equipment emergency lighting, earth testing etc
  • The type of work typically would be isolation of motors and electrical equipment to accommodate repairs/replacement by the fitting team as and when required to react to breakdowns. 

Qualifications Required:

  • Ideally, we are looking for an Apprentice trained engineer. 
  • Holding a City & Guilds 2391 in testing & inspection. 
  • 18th Edition IEE Wiring regulations 
  • CompEx certificate 
  • Valid JIB Card 
  • IOSH Managing Safely
 

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for Electrical biased maintenance engineer. This is an opportunity to Join an organisation who pride themselves in providing Development and progression opportunities, a company who will fund courses to help progress  engineers on site. The right individual will join a Friendly & busy site where you will join an already established team as well as being part of a major manufacturing organisation. 
  
The Maintenance electrician role is commutable from the following locations:  Blackburn / Blackpool / Burnley / Preston  

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive

  • £56.542    
  • Progression & Training and development opportunities 
  • Great Pension 
  • Medical Care 
  • 25+8days holiday 

Shift requirements in place for the Maintenance electrician:

  • 3 Shift Rota / Mornings – Monday to Friday / Afternoons – Monday to Friday & Saturday / Nights: Monday to Thursday 

Key Responsibilities 

  • Previous experience within a Manufacturing environment. 
  • Dealing on both Maintenance and Facilities. 
  • Apprentice trained holding a HNC / City& Guilds in Electrical engineering / 17th – 18th Edition. 
  • Ability to fault find on various electrical controls systems at both single and three phase.
  • Strong fault-finding abilities on PLC’s. 
  • Good understanding of health, safety, and environmental requirements specific to plant maintenance
  • Ability to conduct electrical installation work. 
  • Good understanding of Facilities & Maintenance processes and production critical equipment
  • Can demonstrate good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Self-motivated and able to work in a team environment or on own
  • Qualified to conduct work to BS 7671 wiring regulations. 
  • Qualified to conduct electrical inspection and test. 
  • Good level of computer literacy and ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
 

This is an exceptional opportunity for an Apprentice trained Maintenance Electrician, an opportunity to join a Global manufacturing organisation based in the Northwest Area, not only an opportunity to join a leading organisation but to also join an already established friendly maintenance team. 

Are you looking to join a company who continues to make investment and are continuing to grow, then this may be the right move for you. 
 
The Maintenance Electrician position is commutable from the following locations: Rochdale / Oldham / Wigan / Blackburn / Bury 

The Maintenance Electrician will be required to work the following shift:  Days: 07:30am till 3:30pm    

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

  • Salary: £45,000  
  • 33days holiday 
  • Health care 
  • 8% Pension 
  • Onsite parking 

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

 

  • Strong fault- finding abilities with Allen Bradley & Siemens S7 PLC’s 
  • Experience with: Motors and Drives / Inverters / Single and 3 Phase systems. 
  • Confident with both Hydraulics & Pneumatics / Bearings / Fluid systems / Steam systems / Press Machinery / Conveyor systems  
  • Experienced with Motor testing. 
  • We are ideally looking for the individual to hold a 60/40 Split – electrically biased. 
  • Welding and machining experience would be at an advantage. 
  • Previous experience within a Textiles / Manufacturing environment. 
  • We are looking for an Apprentice trained engineer. 
  • Holding a ONC / City & Guilds Level 3 in electrical engineering 
  • Also holding their 18th IEE Wiring regulations. 
  • Flexibility is key as there will also be a call out Rota in place – rotating Weekly. 
     
 

We are a well established and highly regarded low volume manufacturing business with a track record of providing high value products into a very 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: 

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

  • Starting Salary in the region of £40,000 
  • Paid Overtime at Premium Rates
  • Company Funded Pension (Above Average contribution)
  • Company Funded Sick Pay
  • Excellent Holiday Entitlement
  • Day Working with an Early Friday Finish 
  • Onsite Parking 
  • Working within a Stable Manufacturing Environment, Supporting a Wide Variety of Plant and Equipment


Duties of a Maintenance Technician

The role will see you working within a team undertaking both planned and reactive maintenance to plant and equipment and would ideally suit an engineer with experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a manufacturing, process or production environment. 


Requirements of a Maintenance Technician

  • Proven experience in undertaking planned and reactive maintenance to plant and equipment within either a manufacturing, process or production environment.
  • Hold a Multi skilled ability, ideally with some exposure to supporting Plc Controls, CNC or Robot Technology.
  • Hold City & Guilds or NVQ accreditation Electrically.
  • Ideally be Apprentice trained.


The Maintenance Technician role is commutable from Coventry, Crick, Dunchurch, Lutterworth & Rugby

 

Do you Like Time Off, Never Have Enough Holiday Days Each Year?

How Does 117 Days Off A Year Sound…. 

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. 

Benefits: 

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

  • Competitive Base Salary c£42,000  
  • 12 Hour Rotating Shifts 
  • Exceptional Holiday Entitlement
  • Outstanding Company Pension Scheme
  • Enhanced Company Sick Pay 
  • Paid Overtime Opportunities
  • Generous Holiday Entitlement
  • Free On Site Parling 
  • Opportunity to work in a stable and thriving engineering sector


Duties of a Maintenance Engineer 

Working within a large, supportive team you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across our plant. 

 
Requirements of a Maintenance Engineer

Ideally you will hold formal Apprenticeship, however must hold either a City & Guilds Level C / 3 or NVQ 3 Standard qualification in Mechanical Fitting / Engineering, allied to having a proven experience of undertaking both planned and reactive maintenance within either a heavy engineering / manufacturing, process or production environment. 

This is a great opportunity to move your career into a role where you will not only gain 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, Smethwick, Walsall, Wednesbury, & Oldbury 

 

Probe Technical Recruitment are recruiting a superb opportunity for a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a growing medium sized engineering team, maintaining a range of manufacturing plant equipment. The Maintenance Engineers role requires you to work a Monday – Friday alternating AM/PM 6am – 2pm / 2pm – 10pm on machinery that manufactures their beautifully crafted products. The company offers:

Benefits for the Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer:

  • A starting salary of £46,300 (inclusive of shift allowance)
  • 25 + 8 Days Holiday 
  • Standard company pension 
  • Plenty of overtime 
  • Discount on company products 

Along with a recognised maintenance qualification in either Mechanical or Electrical Maintenance, the ideal Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer will have experience of CNC / PLC/ PC controlled machine tool or process control/production equipment. Ability to interpret technical drawings including PLC, electrical, pneumatic, and mechanical drawings.

Requirements/ Duties for the role of Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

  • When reactive job is allocated ensure that the task is personally owned and followed through to completion or when shift handover required the maintenance supervisor is given all the correct information.
  • Personally own any planned preventative tasks issued and liaise with operations to ensure task is completed to a high standard, with minimal operational disruption.

We would be looking to talk to Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineers, Maintenance Technicians or Maintenance Electrician’s/ Maintenance Engineers, and the role is commutable from Nuneaton, Coventry, Leicester, Hinckley and Rugby. 

 

A massive opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join a global company based in Kidderminster. With an annual turnover of £3.5 billion my client is the world market leader in its sector. They have over 200 plants worldwide in over 30 different countries, including 16 in the UK. 

My client is looking for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer to join their 4 on / 4 off continental shift at one of their biggest UK sites. Loaded with benefits and a great salary package, if this job sounds appealing to you, please read on. 


Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

  • £49,000 (Rising with grading system).  
  • Premium OT. 
  • Company pension. 
  • Share scheme. 
  • Health and wellbeing. 
  • Life assurance. 
  • Training and progression. 

Maintenance Engineer Duties: 

  • Continentals (4 on / 4 off). 
  • Carrying out essential maintenance to plant and equipment. 
  • Attend breakdowns. 
  • Keeping CMMs up to date. 
  • Keeping downtime to a minimum. 
  • Involved with project work. 
  • Ensure machine and plant safety standards are kept. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements: 

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering discipline. 
  • Must be electrically qualified. 
  • Must be multi-skilled. 
  • Familiarity with Siemens S7 PLC’s. 
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic experience. 
  • Mig and Arc welding. 
  • Fabrication experience. 
  • Experienced maintenance in a manufacturing environment.
  • Heavy engineering experience (advantageous). 


This is a huge opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer so please apply to find out more details. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Dudley, Worcester, Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Stourport and surrounding areas. 

 

A massive opportunity for a maintenance engineer to join a global company based in Kidderminster. With an annual turnover of £3.5 billion my client is the world market leader in its sector. They have over 200 plants worldwide in over 30 different countries, including 16 in the UK. 

My client is looking for a maintenance engineer to join their 4 on / 4 off continental shift at one of their biggest UK sites. Loaded with benefits and a great salary package, if this job sounds appealing to you, please read on. 


Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

  • £46,800 (Rising to £52,000+).  
  • Premium OT. 
  • Company pension. 
  • Share scheme. 
  • Health and wellbeing. 
  • Life assurance. 
  • Training and progression. 

Maintenance Engineer Duties: 

  • Continentals (4 on / 4 off). 
  • Carrying out essential maintenance to plant and equipment. 
  • Attend breakdowns. 
  • Keeping CMMs up to date. 
  • Keeping downtime to a minimum. 
  • Involved with project work. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements: 

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering discipline. 
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic experience. 
  • Mig and Arc welding. 
  • Fabrication experience. 
  • Experienced maintenance in a manufacturing environment.
  • Heavy engineering experience (advantageous). 


This is a huge opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer so please apply to find out more details. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Dudley, Worcester, Bromsgrove, Wolverhampton, and surrounding areas. 
 

 

This is an exceptional opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join a leading Manufacturing organisation based in the Greater Manchester Area, 

Are you looking to join an organisation that pride themselves on Growth and development. A company that can offer an exciting new challenge. An opportunity to join a leading organisation who are known world-wide. If so then this might be role for you!! 

The Maintenance Engineer’s position is commutable from the following locations: Hyde / Manchester / Ashton-under-Lyne / Salford / Stretford / Denton 


The Maintenance Engineer will be required to work the following shift: 

Days: Sunday 8am till 16:30 / Monday 6am till 6:30pm / Tuesday 6am till 6:30pm / Thursday 8am till 6:30pm 

Off Days: Wednesday / Friday / Saturday. 


Benefits the Maintenance engineer will receive: 

  • Salary: £40,380  
  • Sick-Pay, 
  • Pension, 
  • Private medical / Dental Options 
  • Cycle to work scheme. 
  • Cash back from Various Retailers 
  • Life Assurance. 
  • Childcare vouchers, 
  • Generous holiday, 
  • Gift Vouchers and More

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

  • Previous experience within a Heavy Manufacturing Environment 
  • Proven experience within a Similar Role, Conducting Mechanical repairs 
  • Experience with Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Gearboxes, Conveyor systems, Granulators, Lifting equipment.  
  • Welding and Fabrication abilities
  • Carry out essential maintenance on all aspects of the production lines.
  • Work through a programme of PPM and helping develop the agility maintenance system.
  • Improve factory OEE through development and innovation of the production facility.
  • Order and Collect Spare Mechanical materials.
  • Maintain and monitor the machines and Equipment. 
  • Ensure that all plant and machinery s kept in good working condition. 

Qualification the Maintenance Engineer will hold: 

  • Apprenticeship Trained 
  • BTEC ONC & BTEC HNC Mechanical engineering  
     
 

An opportunity has a risen for an experienced Quality Inspector to join a leading Manufacturing organisation who are known worldwide. An opportunity to join an already established Manufacturing team and to join an organisation that pride themselves on a Friendly working environment. This is an opportunity to join a company who have been Established for over 50years who continue to grow and offer Stability and development and training. 

The Quality Inspector role is commutable from the following locations: Blackburn / Burnley / Preston.

The Quality Inspector will be required to work the following Shift: Days – Monday to Thursday 07.30am till 16.15pm & Friday 07.30am till 12.30 midday. 

Benefits the Quality Inspector will receive: 

  • Salary: £28.256   
  • Pension Contribution matched at 5.5% = 11%
  • 32days holiday 
  • Production Bonus Scheme 
  • On site Gym. 
  • Secured Parking. 
  • Overtime. – Plent available 

Key experience for the Quality Inspector:  

  • Previous, proven experience within a Nuclear / Quality Inspectors’ role
  • Experienced within a manufacturing environment. 
  • Knowledge of ISO9001 as well as ASME PED this would be at an advantage. 
  • Strong background in technical understanding 
  • Quality Engineering 
  • We are looking for a highly motivated individual who is used to work within a heavy engineering environment. 
  • Time served – mechanical engineer. 
  • At least 2-3 years’ experience within Quality control 


Key Duties for the Quality Inspector: 

  • Maintain all controlled document files and test records. 
  • Perform Inspections of purchased parts. 
  • Monitor Equipment & Instrumentation to ensure operation and calibration 
  • Support the Writing and updating of inspection procedures 
  • Attending meetings to provide reports and update with the general manager / Senior Quality engineer. 
  • Work or reject subassemblies or finish products as required. 
  • Be responsible for enforcing safety and quality on site. 
     
 

Due to a rise in production, we have received some fantastic opportunities, we are currently looking for qualified CNC Turners to join a leading Manufacturing organisation who are known worldwide. An opportunity to join an already established Manufacturing Team and to join an organisation that pride themselves on a Friendly working environment. This is an opportunity to join a company who have been Established for over 50years who continue to grow and offer Stability and development and training. 

The CNC Turners roles are commutable from the following locations: Blackburn / Burnley / Preston.

The CNC Turners will be required to work the following Shifts:  

The company run either Days or Nights.  Rates are below for both Shifts. The option to work Days or Nights. 

  • The day shift – Monday to Thursday 7:30am till 4:15pm – Friday 7:30am till 12:30. 
  • Nights: Monday to Thursday 10pm till 7:30am  

Benefits the CNC Turners will receive: 

  • Salary:  Day Rate: £15.28 working a 38hr week.   Annual Rate: £30,193.28 
  • Nights: £15.28 + £4.53 per hour = £19.81. Annual Rate £39,144.56 Pension Contribution matched at 5.5% = 11%
  • 32days holiday 
  • Production Bonus Scheme 
  • On site Gym. 
  • Secured Parking. 
  • Overtime – Plenty available 

Key Requirements for the CNC Turners: 

  • Carry out machining of components
  • Set up tools and load materials on to CNC Machines 
  • Manually handle Weights up to 25kg 
  • Complete quality documents 
  • Use inspection equipment to ensure components are manufactured to drawings. 
  • Contribute to continuous improvements 
  • Read Engineering Drawings 
  • Use computer equipment for date purposes.