Maintenance Engineer

Salary: £37,000 - £45,000
Location: Leominster
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:00pm

Company Overview

We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established manufacturing business seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful operation where you'll play a key role in maintaining equipment reliability, supporting production performance, and driving continuous improvement.

The Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for servicing, fault-finding, repairing, and optimising a range of production equipment. Working closely with Production and Engineering teams, you'll help maximise machine uptime, improve operational efficiency, and support ongoing improvement projects across the site.

Key Responsibilities

• Service, maintain, and repair production machinery and associated equipment
• Diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical faults
• Complete planned preventative maintenance, asset care, and condition monitoring activities
• Set up, adjust, and optimise manufacturing equipment
• Support production teams to maximise equipment performance and minimise downtime
• Drive and support continuous improvement projects
• Assist with annual maintenance and overhaul programmes
• Ensure compliance with GMP, quality, health, and safety standards
• Train and develop colleagues in machinery operation, fault finding, and maintenance techniques
• Mentor apprentices and support their development
• Work collaboratively with Production and Engineering teams to achieve operational targets

Requirements

• Experience working with moulding machinery
• Previous Maintenance Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment
• Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills
• Ability to diagnose faults down to component level
• Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance
• Knowledge of production machinery setup and optimisation
• PLC fault-finding experience

Desirable

• Experience of moulding processes and process optimisation
• Understanding of mould and tooling change procedures
• Time-served Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G, NVQ, SVQ, or equivalent)
• PLC programming experience
• Control panel wiring experience
• Previous experience training, coaching, or mentoring colleagues

Benefits

• Overtime available with enhanced rates
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Bonus
• Death in Service benefit
• Long-term career development opportunities
• Supportive engineering and production environment

If you are an experience Maintenance Engineer ready for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

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