Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)
Location: Widnes
Salary: GBP52,320
Shifts: 4 on 4 off (Days and Nights)
Looking for a new challenge as a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer with a mechanical bias? Join a leading manufacturer in Widnes and help keep our operations running smoothly!
Why Work for Us?
- Competitive salary: GBP52,320
- Shifts: Enjoy a 4 on 4 off shift pattern with both days and nights for a balanced lifestyle.
- Generous Benefits Package:
- 23 days holiday (including bank holidays)
- Stakeholder pension scheme matching up to 8%
- 4 x Life Assurance Cover
- Healthcare Cashback Scheme
- Group Income Protection
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- High Street Discount Club
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
About the Role
As a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias), you will play a vital role in maintaining, repairing, and ensuring the operational efficiency of our advanced manufacturing equipment. If you have a passion for mechanics, a proactive attitude, and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, this is the role for you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct preventive and reactive maintenance on mechanical and electrical systems to keep production running smoothly.
- Read and interpret engineering specifications, design drawings, and technical manuals.
- Identify and troubleshoot mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical system faults, including motors, drives, and control systems.
- Perform repairs on machinery using a range of tools, including power tools and hoists.
- Supervise routine preventive maintenance tasks carried out by production operatives.
- Support machine installations, including equipment lifting, placement, alignment, and connection of services.
- Maintain safety standards by ensuring machine guarding, interlocks, and safety devices are functioning correctly.
- Generate maintenance reports and analyse equipment downtime trends to identify areas for improvement.
Requirements:
- HNC or equivalent in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
- At least 5 years of hands-on industrial maintenance experience, ideally in a manufacturing or processing environment.
- Solid understanding of pneumatics, hydraulics, and electrical/electronic motion control systems.
- Experience with electrical installations and wiring, including troubleshooting and repairing motors and drives.
- Web handling experience and knowledge of tension measurement/control systems is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
Apply Now!
If you are an experienced Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer with a strong mechanical bias, we want to hear from you! For further information, please contact Clare Butler at Winsearch UK.