About this role
Are you an experienced Mechanical Maintenance Engineer looking to join a leading manufacturing company based in Tipton?
This is a fast-paced production environment where you'll play a key role in maintaining and repairing mechanical equipment to keep production running safely, efficiently and reliably.
Offering a salary of £55 - 58K per year, dependant on qualifications.
Working a rotating three-week shift pattern covering nights, mornings and afternoons.
You'll be responsible for both reactive and planned maintenance across production and process machinery, with opportunities to contribute to reliability improvements and support engineering projects across the site.
If you are interested in this role - APPLY NOW.
As a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, your role will involve:
- Carry out reactive mechanical repairs and planned preventative maintenance across production lines and process equipment.
- Diagnose and repair mechanical faults involving bearings, seals, shafts, gearboxes, conveyors, pumps, fans and mixers.
- Maintain pneumatic and hydraulic systems, including cylinders, valves, actuators, pumps and filters.
- Support maintenance activities on packaging and process machinery to minimise downtime and improve equipment reliability.
- Perform vibration checks, identify potential equipment failures and report any abnormalities to the Lead Engineer.
- Take responsibility for the maintenance workshop, ensuring tools, equipment and consumables are maintained, organised and accounted for.
- Safely operate workshop machinery, including lathes, pillar drills, grinders and presses, and fabricate or modify parts as required.
- Complete maintenance records and work orders using the site's computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).
- Support planned shutdowns, engineering projects, heavy lifting and mechanical assembly tasks as required.
- Follow all site health and safety procedures, complete risk assessments and report hazards, near misses and incidents.
Suitable Candidates: Qualified Maintenance Engineer with relevant mechanical engineering qualifications and experience.
Strong mechanical maintenance and fault-finding skills within a manufacturing or production environment.
Experience maintaining equipment such as conveyors, pumps, gearboxes, packaging machinery and process equipment.
Knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, mechanical drives and precision alignment techniques.
Experience carrying out planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown repairs.
Good understanding of health and safety procedures, workshop safety and safe systems of work.
Strong team player with good communication skills and the ability to support production and fellow engineers.
Working Hours:
Rotating three-week shift pattern:
Nights (Sunday-Thursday, 21:00-06:00)
Mornings (Monday-Friday, 05:00-14:00)
Afternoons (Monday-Friday, 13:00-22:00).
If you are interested in the above role, APPLY NOW.
