Workshop Technician​/Mechanical

Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer

Location:

Burnley
Salary: £36,000

Hours:

Full-time

If you’d rather be building, fixing and improving machinery than staring at the same production line every day, this one is worth a look.

We’re looking for an experienced Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer to join a specialist engineering team in Burnley, building and maintaining highly automated equipment used within the pipeline and coatings industry.

This is proper hands-on engineering.

You’ll be involved in:

Mechanical fitting and complete machine builds
Hydraulics and pneumatics
Fault finding and refurbishment
Hydraulic pipework installation
Testing and commissioning
Design upgrades and engineering improvements
Fabrication and welding
Preventative maintenance
Reading technical drawings and specifications
General machining and component modification

You may occasionally support installation or refurbishment work at other UK or overseas locations.

What We’re Looking For

Ideally, you’ll bring:

Around 5 years’ mechanical engineering experience
Strong fitting and machine-build experience
Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge
Fabrication and welding experience
Fault diagnosis and maintenance experience
General machining skills
Ability to read engineering drawings
Basic electrical understanding
Experience working alongside Design Engineers You’ll need to be practical, mechanically minded, safety-conscious and happy working independently or as part of a wider engineering team.

Most importantly, we want someone who gets genuine satisfaction from standing back at the end of a build and thinking:

“Yep. I built that.”

Dianne West

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