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Job Description

I’m looking for a multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer who is looking for a new opportunity at a state-of the-art facility. Ideally the candidate will have past experience within an FMCG environment and have the willingness to learn new techniques such as PLC programming. 

My client is a UK leading manufacturer and is continuously investing in new and exciting technology, which you could be a part of. If you’re a maintenance engineer looking for a secure role with a progressive and forward-thinking company, then this may be the role for you.  

Maintenance Engineer  Benefits: 

  • £49,400. 
  • 13% pension (5%/8%). 
  • Enhanced holiday scheme. 
  • Premium OT (x1.5). 
  • Health cash plan. 
  • Health and life insurance. 
  • Real training and development opportunities. (PLC programming and electrical fault finding). 


Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

  • Continentals. 
  • Reactive maintenance. 
  • Planned and preventive maintenance. 
  • Supporting lead development engineers with continuous improvement projects. 
  • Promote health and safety. 
  • Update maintenance logs. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

  • Recognised Engineering Qualifications. 
  • Apprentice trained. 
  • Ideally Electrically qualified. 
  • FMCG experience (advantages). 
  • Willingness to learn.
  • Understanding of electrical diagrams. 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Telford, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton,  Wolverhampton, Bridgnorth, Newport,  and surrounding areas. 

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

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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. 
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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. 

 

A huge opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join an award-winning company based near Telford. With over 30 years in their field my client is one of the most established businesses in the UK. 

My client is looking for an electrically bias Maintenance Engineer to join their growing engineering team. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 250 skilled employees on their 14-acre site. 


Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

  • £46,181
  • Premium OT 
  • 277 hours holiday 
  • Health care cover. 
  • Life assurance. 
  • Company pension. 
  • Cycle To work scheme. 
  • Employee discounts. 
  • Sick Pay 
  • Canteen.  

Maintenance Engineer Duties: 

  • Panama shift pattern. 
  • Electrical fault finding. 
  • Planned preventive maintenance. 
  • Implementing new processes. 
  • Responding to breakdowns. 
  • Use of CMMS. 
  • Ensuring all operating equipment is safe and fit for purpose. 

Maintenance Engineer Requirements: 

  • Apprentice trained.
  • NVQ Level 3 / BTEC Level 3 / HNC Level 4 or equivalent in Electrical Engineering. 
  • 18th edition. 
  • PLC fault finding (Siemens S7, Allan Bradley, Mitsubishi). 
  • CMMS experience. 
  • Mechanical skills would be advantageous. 
  • Pneumatics. 


An overall great opportunity packed with benefits. So, if this seems like the right role for you, please apply to find out more details. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Telford, Newport, Bridgnorth, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton, and surrounding areas.

 

I have a fantastic opportunity for multi-skilled maintenance engineer to join a heavy, high-volume production site in Bilston near Wolverhampton. My client is well established within its field and produces some big brand products for the likes of Screwfix, B&Q and Wickes. In this role you will be in charge of all planned and preventive maintenance on site. 

This position would be ideal for someone with plant maintenance skills and a good knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics. You will be working a day’s only shift pattern (see below), and you will be paid a lifestyle bonus of £47 for every weekend day worked (excluding overtime). This will take your salary to around £51,074. 

Maintenance Engineer Benefits:

  • £48,626.401 (£51,074 incl. lifestyle bonus).  
  • OT at premium rates (x1.5). 
  • £47 lifestyle payment (paid every rostered weekend day). 
  • 5% matched pension. 
  • Good training and progression routes. 
  • 29.5 days holiday. 
  • Days only. 


Maintenance Engineer Duties include:

  • Days only (Week 1 – Tuesday to Friday  8hrs per day / Week 2 – Wednesday to Friday 8hrs per day & Saturday & Sunday 12  hrs per day). 
  • Make improvements to production. 
  • Preventive maintenance checks. 
  • To maintain manufacturing machinery. 
  • Ensure all data recording is completed accurately. 
  • Installation work. 


Maintenance Engineer Requirements include: 

  • Recognised Engineering Qualifications. 
  • Hydraulics and Pneumatics is essential. 
  • Welding and fabrication. 
  • Ability to use lathes, millers, grinders. 
  • Controls knowledge advantageous (Siemens S7). 
  • Heavy engineering background. 
  • Strong fault-finding abilities. 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Bilston, Wednesbury. Cannock, Stourbridge, and surrounding areas. 

 

We are seeking to recruit a number of Multi-skilled Maintenance contractors to support our plant with a key project.  

You will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance tasks to our wide range of production machinery that will require you to hold good multi skilled abilities.

Linked to your multi skilled abilities you must also hold some exposure to supporting Plc controls and robotic applications and ideally have undertaken three phase installation work. 

Ideally you will be apprentice trained but must hold formal qualifications electrically to a City & Guilds or NVQ standard, having gained your maintenance experience within a fast moving manufacturing or production environment. 

In return for your skills and experience we offer a negotiable hourly rate and ongoing work for up to six months. 
 
*Please note that as this project falls inside IR35, we will have to pay you via a FCSA accredited Umbrella. 

Commutable from Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Kidderminster, Kings Norton, Rowley Regis, Walsall & Wolverhampton.

 

Due to enormous growth my client is in need of a number of production technicians to join them on a continental shift rota. As production technician you will be hands-on with the machinery, spotting faults and preventing downtime. So, we are looking for technically minded candidates who would like to be part of an amazing progressive company. You will start on a salary of £31,600 for the first 12 weeks of training, this rise will to £37,500 and then after 6-12 months will rise to £41,200. 

My client is investing millions every year into new technology, automation and progressive new projects. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please apply now to avoid missing out. 


Production Technician Benefits: 

  • £31,600 - £41,200
  • Premium OT (x1.5/x2) 
  • 13% pension (5%/8%). 
  • 23 days holiday. 
  • Health cash plan. 
  • Health and life insurance. 
  • Tech schemes. 
  • Real training and development opportunities. 


Production Technician Duties include:

  • Continental shift rota. 
  • Ensure 100% compliance with industry standards. 
  • Fault finding, investigating issues and problem solving. 
  • Machinery start-ups and changeovers. 
  • Leading a line of machine operators and driving performance. 
  • Drive continuous improvement. 
  • Liaise with engineering teams on improvements. 

Production Technician Requirements include: 

  • Engineering qualifications would be a massive advantage. 
  • Technically minded. 
  • Competent to solve problems and issues. 
  • Worked previously on machinery or in an engineering environment. 
  • An effective communicator. 
  • Experience within a food environment would be beneficial. 

Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Production Technician position is commutable from: Telford, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton,  Wolverhampton, Bridgnorth, Newport,  and surrounding areas. 

 

An exciting opportunity for a talented Controls Engineer to join a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in the heart of Shropshire. We are looking for someone who would like to become part of an engineering development team, working with and supporting lead engineers developing new innovations. 

My client is a UK leading manufacturer and is continuously investing in new and exciting technology, which you could be a part of. If you’re a controls engineer looking for a secure role with a progressive and forward-thinking company, then this may be the role for you.  

Controls Engineer Benefits: 

  • £60,000 (DOE) 
  • 13% pension (5%/8%). 
  • 25 Days + BH. 
  • Health cash plan. 
  • Health and life insurance. 
  • Real training and development opportunities. 


Controls Engineer Duties include:

  • Day’s role (08:30-17:00). 
  • Provide technical leadership in programming PLC’s. 
  • Projects from initial concept to final product. 
  • PLC programming (Siemens and Schneider). 
  • SCADA work. 
  • Drive improvements. 
  • Working to deadlines. 

Controls Engineer Requirements include: 

  • HNC or Degree – Electrical Engineering. 
  • Siemens or Schneider PLC experience. (Programming as a min). 
  • Food / FMCG experience. 
  • SCADA knowledge advantageous. 
  • Ability to work in a team and individually. 


Please apply find out more about this fantastic role. 

This Controls Engineer position is commutable from: Telford, Shrewsbury, Market Drayton,  Wolverhampton, Bridgnorth, Newport,  and surrounding areas. 

 

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

 

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. 
 

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!


Manufacturing Engineer Role Overview

The Manufacturing Engineer will define, develop & implement equipment, processes and standards of working for application within the production environment.

Forming part of the company global operations and reporting into the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, the Manufacturing Engineer will work cross functionally with Product Design and Testing, Supply Chain, Production Engineering, Plant Maintenance and Quality functions and be instrumental in ensuring robust design and development of manufacturing and production systems and processes in a planned and intentional manner, working ahead of business operational requirements strategically.


Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £35,000 - £40,000
  • 7:30am – 4:00pm Monday – Thursday, 1:00pm finish on Friday’s 
  • The chance to join a very successful hypergrowth business
  • Excellent company pension
  • Company bonus
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Cash health plan

Commutable From: Dudley, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Kidderminster  

Candidate Requirements

  • HND or equivalent qualification in Mechanical / Manufacturing Engineering or similar qualification.
  • Working experience in a high speed, high pressure electro-mechanical manufacturing and production environment within a Manufacturing Engineering function would be highly advantageous.
  • Hands on experience in use and application of PFMEA, Control Plan and Process Flow tools.
  • Strong track record in continuous improvement and project management.
  • Experience of Industrial design and Engineering (Factory layout, assembly process development).
  • Proven aptitude for detail, process control and documentation.
  • Demonstrate ability to work with commercial acumen and consideration within manufacturing design and development.


About you

  • The Manufacturing Engineer will be a process led, proactive and pragmatic engineer with a good eye for detail.
  • Good background skills in project, task and prioritisation management and communication.
  • Able to demonstrate experience in an electro-mechanical environment at a practical level.
  • You will have a background in process design and development that includes a strong understanding of whole-of-factory level impact and commercial considerations with regard to large change projects as well as continuous improvement initiatives.


Key Responsibilities

  • Planning, managing and delivering manufacturing programmes for process, equipment, tooling and factory layout improvements, as well step-change ground-up projects
  • Engineering solutions for manufacturing and production that deliver benefits in efficiency, quality and accuracy both today and for the future state
  • Managing and planning product changes (quality cost and time justification for and against within manufacturing, supporting NPI as part of a cross functional business wide team)
  • Future design and development of factory layout scenarios and process flow design in line with operational strategy
  • Supporting production engineering with longer term continuous improvement projects
  • Development of manufacturing standards, processes and measures in line with the business performance that can be translated globally across Operations


Desirable Experience

Any of the below would be useful but aren’t essential:
Experience in using AutoCAD or similar plant layout design CAD software, Working knowledge of production lean methodologies and associated tools i.e. OEE, TPM, 5S, Experience of working with quality management systems within manufacturing and production, Practical application of industry standard problem-solving tools i.e. 8D, 5Y, Team and project leadership experience in similar environment or role, Background and experience in automation solutions for production in similar industry or environment, Experience in jig and tool design, Ability to read and produce engineering drawings