Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job Working Pattern: Days, 5:30 AM - 2 PM, 40-hour week, Monday to Friday

Location: Castle Donnington area

Type: Permanent

Industry: SME General Manufacturing site with a rich history

Working Onsite: Within a small engineering team

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide effective and efficient planned, preventative, and breakdown maintenance to minimize losses to production.
2. Ensure continuous running of the production process by eliminating downtime through a safe and logical approach to fault finding and maintenance of equipment.
3. Perform planned and reactive maintenance to keep downtime to a minimum.
4. Work with a variety of process and manufacturing machinery, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, and general mechanical fitting.
5. Conduct fault-finding to fabrication.
6. Lead electrical and instrumentation repair, and work with CMMS.
7. Diagnose, resolve, and eliminate root causes of mechanical engineering faults.
8. Implement minor equipment modifications in support of increased performance.
9. Complete all scheduled, planned corrective, reactive, and improvement maintenance as allocated.
10. Contribute to the planning and implementation of allocated annual equipment overhauls.

Qualifications & Requirements:

1. Apprentice trained or NVQ level 3 in a mechanical engineering discipline in maintenance engineering.
2. Experience in plastics, process, CNC, tooling, or general manufacturing is ideal.
3. Manufacturing industry experience in heavy, medium, or FMCG environments considered; focus on transferable skills and culture fit.
4. Knowledge of conveyor belts, drives, gearboxes, and couplings; general mechanical equipment.
5. Essential knowledge of hydraulic & pneumatic systems.
6. Understanding of routine preventative maintenance and PPM schedules.
7. Ability to find and fix faults quickly and effectively.
8. Basic welding and fabrication skills are advantageous.
9. Fitting, fabricating, and welding experience preferred.
10. A proactive approach to fault finding and a commitment to continuous improvement and personal development.

What We Can Offer:

1. 30 days holiday, Company Sick Pay, Pension standard Auto Enrolment.
2. Small close collaborative team with long service.
3. Autonomy to add value to the department and showcase your skill set.
4. Work in a varied site with special purpose machines manufacturing consumer products and engineered materials.
5. Semi-automated facility.
6. Opportunity for overtime.
7. Pension.
8. People-centric culture with a long-serving workforce.
9. Free onsite parking.
10. Health cash plan.
11. Life Assurance.

For more information on this role, please contact Mike Butler on 0113 2123519 or send a copy of your CV to mike.butler@omegaresource.co.uk.

Candidates who are currently a multi-skilled engineer, mechanical engineer, mechanical maintenance engineer, manufacturing engineer, maintenance fitter, mechanical biased engineer, fitter, plant fitter, maintenance engineer, shift engineer, or dayshift engineer may be suitable for this position.

Omega Resource Group is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.