Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer – Temp to Perm

Location:

Aston, Birmingham

Pay Rate: £22 per hour

Working hours:

40 hours per week | Sunday to Thursday | 11:00am – 7:30pm

We are recruiting for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join a food manufacturing site based in Aston, Birmingham. This is a temp‑to‑perm opportunity offering long‑term stability and progression within a growing operation.

This is a 50/50 split role
, combining hands‑on technical maintenance with management and coordination responsibilities.

You will play a key role in keeping production running efficiently by:

• Performing planned preventive and corrective maintenance
• Troubleshooting mechanical and electrical faults
• Minimising downtime and restoring production quickly
• Working on food production machinery and associated equipment
• Ensuring full compliance with food safety and safety standards including GMP and HACCP

Alongside technical duties, you will:

• Plan maintenance schedules and factory shutdowns
• Supervise maintenance technicians and external contractors
• Manage spare parts inventory
• Support control of the maintenance budget
• Ensure all maintenance activities meet health, safety, and food industry regulations

You will be responsible for maintaining food production and packaging machinery within a manufacturing environment. Experience with in a food factory setting is highly advantageous.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment (food manufacturing preferred)
• Strong mechanical and electrical fault‑finding skills
• Experience working within GMP and HACCP standards
• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience advantageous
• Strong organisational and problem‑solving skills

• £22 per hour
• Temp-to-perm opportunity
• Opportunity to step into a role combining technical expertise with leadership responsibility

While working with Pure Staff, you’re employed and paid directly by us – no umbrella companies, no processing fees, no outsourced payroll – just simple PAYE with accurate, on‑time payslips from our experienced in‑house payroll team.

After your first payment, you’ll also receive free access to our perks scheme, offering exclusive discounts on electronics, travel, clothing, home, fitness, wellbeing, and more.