Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Location: Leeds

Salary: £49,000- £52,000

A leading UK-based manufacturing business within the industrial sector is looking to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its established engineering team. This role is critical to maintaining world-class manufacturing standards, with a strong focus on plant reliability, safety, quality, and continuous improvement. You'll be working in a fast-paced factory environment, supporting production through effective reactive and preventative maintenance.

• Working as part of a skilled maintenance team, you'll be responsible for diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, and completing planned maintenance across a range of mechanical and electrical systems.

• Reacting to and resolving plant breakdowns to minimise downtime
• Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance (PPM)
• High-level mechanical fault finding with basic electrical diagnostics
• Working on hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, gearboxes, valves, drives and machine shop equipment
• Welding (MIG, TIG, Stick) and use of lathes and mills where required
• Electrical fault finding at a basic level (sensors, 3-phase motors, safe isolation)
• Accurately recording work orders, breakdowns, parts used and time taken
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and plant reliability reviews
• Ensuring all work complies with Health & Safety, quality and environmental standards
• Must be happy to work a permanent nights shift (39 hours a week)

• Apprentice-trained Maintenance Engineer (UK experience essential)
• Multi-skilled background (mechanical or electrical bias)
• Previous experience in a manufacturing or factory environment
• Strong fault-finding and breakdown experience
• Electrically biased engineers: comfortable with mechanical maintenance
• Mechanically biased engineers: must read electrical schematics and fault-find sensors & 3-phase motors
• Steady career history
• Ideally living within 45 minutes commute

• Company pension (up to 5%)
• Annual company bonus (paid most years)
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Death in service (4x salary)
• Christmas shutdown (3 days taken from allowance)
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
• Buy & sell holiday scheme
• Long-term job security within a stable manufacturing business