Maintenance Engineer

Role: Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £37,000 to £40,000 per annum
Hours: 4 on 4 off, rotation of days and nights
Location: Commutable from Exeter, Plymouth, Totnes, Moretonhampstead, Farringdon, Torquay, Exmouth, and surrounding areas 

Company

We are currently recruiting a Maintenance Engineer to work within a large and global company who have many factories across the UK and Worldwide. Their environments are all industrial, automated and production based. You will benefit from a friendly and loyal team of Engineers working in this fast faced environment. Working within this large company you will have plenty of scope and opportunities to progress your career, up-skill and gain further qualifications – should this interest you. They have internal and external training to help people grow in such areas like multi skilling and others.

It is a multi skilled environment, however either bias, including those who are pure mechanical or pure electrical who want to cross skill and be helped and supported to do so, this is the right chance and opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

Maintenance Engineers get the opportunity to cover both electro-mechanical maintenance work across the factory, and you are encouraged and supported to develop your weaker side, whether this be mechanical or electrical.

You will benefit from a very supportive and loyal team, including the manager who has been in his role for over 10 years. The work is more your heavy equipment, a place where you can expect to get your hands dirty, coming with a bit of scope and depth to the role too. So you can really get stuck into the equipment, repairs, planned maintenance and across a range of projects too.

The site runs 24/5 with an approx. split of 50% being more proactive and 50% being reactive. They have a planned maintenance program that all Maintenance Engineers benefit from via their company phones, allowing them to see outstandings works, completed works and projects.  

Requirements

Maintenance or Service background in any environment including motorvehicle, Forces (RAF, ARMY, NAVY), industrial, manufacturing, production or automated etc.
Completed a recognised engineering apprenticeship or hold an engineering qualification
SOME/ANY of the following experience; motors, belts, bearings, chains, gears, pumps, boilers, sensors, inverters, relays, contactors, 3 phase, PLC’s, pneumatics, hydraulics etc.
Good fault-finding skills
Not essential but an electrical bias or electrical engineer is advantageous
Friendly and adaptable working attitude
Proactive work attitude and keen to get your hands dirty

If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Jane at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Jane for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.