Maintenance and Site Services Assistant

Shift: Monday to Friday Days, flexible working hours (typically 7am-4pm or 8am-4pm)

Salary: Circa £30,000

Location: Clevedon, North Somerset

Are you an experienced Forklift Driver or Maintenance Assistant looking for a more varied, hands-on role? Do you have experience working in a manufacturing or industrial environment and an interest in developing your mechanical and maintenance skills?

Yolk Recruitment are supporting a well-established manufacturing business with the recruitment of a Maintenance & Site Services Assistant to join their engineering department.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a practical background in manufacturing or industrial operations who is looking to develop their skills and gain valuable experience within an engineering environment.

You’ll be working alongside a highly skilled and experienced engineering team, gaining exposure to a wide range of industrial production machinery and equipment. The business is committed to providing training and development, offering the opportunity to build your technical knowledge and potentially take on further maintenance responsibilities as your experience grows.

As a Maintenance & Site Services Assistant, you’ll play an important role in supporting the day-to-day upkeep of a busy manufacturing facility, working closely with the engineering team to ensure plant equipment and surrounding areas are maintained to a safe standard.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Operating forklifts to safely move materials, equipment and maintenance supplies around the manufacturing site.

• Monitoring and maintaining water treatment systems, carrying out routine checks and supporting Legionella control procedures.

• Conducting regular inspections of production machinery, identifying hydraulic oil leaks, fluid losses and potential maintenance issues.

• Checking fluid levels and monitoring stocks of oils, lubricants and other maintenance consumables.

• Supporting general housekeeping across production areas, engineering workshops and surrounding plant equipment.

• Assisting with cleaning, spill management and maintaining safe working areas around machinery.

• Operating overhead cranes and supporting general material handling activities, with training provided where required.

• Working alongside the maintenance team, gaining exposure to a variety of industrial machinery and assisting with general plant maintenance activities where appropriate.

• Previous experience operating counterbalance forklifts, ideally holding a valid forklift licence.

• Experience working within a manufacturing, production, industrial or maintenance environment.

• Comfortable working around industrial machinery and carrying out routine equipment inspections.

• A practical, hands-on approach, with some basic mechanical knowledge or maintenance experience being advantageous.

• Previous exposure to water treatment systems, Legionella monitoring or overhead cranes would be beneficial, although training can be provided.

• Good understanding of health and safety procedures within an industrial environment.

• A reliable, proactive attitude with a genuine willingness to learn, develop new skills and take on additional responsibilities.

Formal engineering qualifications are not essential. We’re particularly interested in candidates from forklift driving, production, plant operations, facilities or maintenance support backgrounds who are looking for an opportunity to develop their technical skills.

• Starting salary of approximately £30,000.

• Monday to Friday daytime working, with flexibility around start and finish times.

• Forklift and overhead crane training.

• Legionella…