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.

The Role 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.

Key Responsibilities:

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) What We're Looking For 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 What's on Offer 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 If you are interested in this role and feel that you have the right skills then please click apply at the bottom of this advert. For further details contact Eyleesha Bhatti at Pioneer Selection.

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