Senior Maintenance Engineering Lead - Quarry

Senior Maintenance & Engineering Lead

Quarry & Manufacturing Site - Doncaster

We are recruiting a Senior Maintenance & Site Engineering Lead to join a long-established quarry and manufacturing operation near Doncaster. This is a key succession hire, replacing a highly experienced individual retiring later this year who mostly built the quarry and infrasture so a thorough handover is vital.

This is a hands-on, site-based role for someone who lives and breathes keeping a complex industrial site running, improving, and evolving.

You will take ownership of day-to-day site engineering and maintenance across a busy quarry and manufacturing facility, working alongside a small, experienced maintenance team and trusted specialist contractors.

• Keeping the quarry, batching plant, and site infrastructure operational
• Mechanical maintenance and fault-finding on heavy plant and equipment
• Oversight of site buildings, services, drains, buried services, and facilities
• Supporting and leading small site improvement and infrastructure projects
• Coordinating contractors for specialist repairs and installations
• Responding to breakdowns when required (very infrequent, but hands-on)
• Maintaining a strong, practical health & safety culture
• Gradual transfer and ownership of critical site knowledge

• Large excavators and quarry plant
• Concrete batching plant
• Fork trucks, shunters, telehandlers
• Overhead cranes and yard cranes
• Site infrastructure, extensions, and facilities

There is always a project on - from new extensions and yard cranes to repurposing buildings and installing new equipment. No two days are the same.

• Is a mechanically biased engineer or fitter by background
• Has worked in quarrying, mining, heavy manufacturing, precast, or similar
• Is comfortable turning their hand to mechanical, basic electrical, and site works
• Is practical, proactive, and solutions-focused
• Leads by example and is happy to muck in when needed
• Has strong health & safety awareness and common-sense site discipline
• Wants a long-term role where they are trusted and valued

This is not a desk role. It suits someone who enjoys variety, ownership, and being the go-to person on site.

• Salary: £45,000 - £55,000
• Profit share & annual bonus (typically £3,000 - £4,000+, higher in strong years)
• Car / Van on offer
• Working hours:
  
  8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (Early starts common, breakdown call-outs extremely rare)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Private healthcare (BUPA)
• Excellent on-site facilities (including genuinely good tea and coffee)

• Site-based role near Doncaster
• Succession position with full handover of site knowledge

If this role sounds like you, Apply Now. Contact Mark at Up Front Recruitment for more details