Maintenance Engineer

Permanent | Competitive Salary + Overtime | Excellent Benefits

We’re looking for a hands-on Maintenance Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team working with advanced automated systems. If you’re a multiskilled engineer with an electrical bias and enjoy a mix of planned, reactive and improvement work—this role offers excellent long-term opportunity and progression.

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for keeping a large automated operation running smoothly and efficiently. Your duties will include:

• Delivering planned preventative maintenance in line with engineering schedules.

• Responding to reactive maintenance tasks, diagnosing faults and resolving issues within agreed KPIs.

• Supporting fault eradication and driving a “zero breakdown” mindset across the engineering function.

• Identifying opportunities to improve equipment performance, reliability, and safety.

• Working with automated machinery, conveyor systems, cranes and sortation equipment.

• Completing all work order updates and reporting through electronic maintenance systems.

• Working independently as well as part of a small team on shift.

• Multiskilled engineer with a strong electrical bias.

• Experience in industrial, factory, automated or forces engineering environments.

• Level 3 engineering qualification (or equivalent).

• Strong fault-finding skills across electrical and mechanical systems.

• Comfortable working with complex automated equipment.

• Proactive, reliable and able to work with minimal supervision.

• Full right to work in the UK (no visa sponsorship available).

• Competitive salary + overtime opportunities (£1,000–£2,000 typical annually).

• Standard company pension scheme.

• Structured rotating shift pattern providing work/life balance.

• Work within a fully automated, state-of-the-art technical environment.

• Long-term career development and training opportunities.