Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

Our client is a very established and expanding heavy industry manufacturing company and Staffbase have been appointed to recruit for the position of Maintenance Engineer.

The successful candidate will work at our client's busy manufacturing plant near Stafford.
The successful applicant will join the busy maintenance team to perform mechanical maintenance activities in a foundry, fettling shop and machining plant.

The Role:

Reporting to the engineering manager, the Maintenance Engineer will be required to undertake planned and reactive maintenance activities on a wide range of plant, machinery and site facilities.
Your duties will include but are not limited to the following:

• Mechanical maintenance & repair of a wide range of machinery including conveyors, crushers, screens, furnaces, cooling plant and much more
• Maintenance and repair of hydraulic & pneumatic machinery
• Welding & fabrication
• Basic electrical fault finding and repair of motors, contactors, sensors, relays, etc.
• Site facilities maintenance
• PPM

Candidate:

The Maintenance Engineer will have excellent mechanical engineering skills and will be competent in fault finding and repair work. Applicants with some electrical fault finding and repair skills will be beneficial.

Preferably, you will hold formal mechanical engineering certification NVQ level 3 or HND/HNC.

Previous work experience in a heavy industry environment such as foundry, recycling, or quarry and aggregates sectors would be an advantage; however, all applicants with necessary skills will be considered.

Hours of work:

4 on 4 off (12-hour shifts days and nights rotating monthly)

Benefits:

Excellent basic salary £42.4K + OT
28 days annual leave
Free on-site parking
Pension