Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Location:

Halewood, Merseyside

Duration:
Permanent

Start date:

ASAP

Salary: £46,587.88 per annum (potential earnings up to £64,151.51 depending on shift)

Ford Halewood Transmissions Ltd (FHTL), a 600‑person manufacturing plant with a 60‑year history, is investing up to £230million to transform the facility to build electric power units for future Ford vehicles.

Mechanical Maintenance Engineers play a pivotal role in ensuring production machinery, assembly lines and equipment are maintained and repaired as required to maximise uptime while meeting the company’s Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Environmental objectives.

• Perform fault‑finding and diagnosis on a range of equipment.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on pneumatics, hydraulics, conveyors, CNC machines and robots in accordance with manufacturers’ recommendations and industry standard practices.
• Record all work undertaken.
• Analyse and resolve mechanical faults and repairs, driving continuous improvement for machinery.
• Follow safety procedures and risk assessments.
• Work alongside other Maintenance Engineers to combine initiative with a sound understanding of electrical and mechanical issues.
• Collaborate with vendors, production and process engineering teams to ensure optimum uptime and machine improvements.

• Essential:
  Recognised Engineering Craft Apprenticeship and ONC (or equivalent) in Mechanical Engineering.
• Essential: PC literacy, ability to work under pressure, teamwork, effective multitasking and a “can‑do” attitude.
• Previous employment in a Mechanical Maintenance Engineering role.
• Experience of preventive maintenance, fault‑fighting, diagnosis of faults on pneumatics, hydraulics, lead screws, spindles, alignment, machine overhauls, CNC machines and assembly lines ideally.
• Excellent communication skills; technical cross‑shift handover / line‑up.
• Experience utilising mechanical technical manuals and drawings.

• Basic annual salary £46,587.88, inclusive of a 35% premium on all allocated holidays (33 days, 25 vacation + 8 bank holidays).
• Shift premium on all hours worked apart from day shift, with potential earnings up to £64,151.51 per year on a 3‑shift pattern.
• Free on‑site gym with sauna & steam room (outside of working hours).
• Employee assistance programmes – weekly appointments for massages, circuit classes, nutrition advice, yoga, chiropody, reiki, head massages (outside of working hours).
• On‑site physiotherapy and occupational health department support.
• Competitive pension scheme – company pays 1.5 times employee contributions up to 12%.
• £750 annual attendance bonus (subject to company T &
  
  C).
• Access to Ford’s Privilege scheme – discount on Ford vehicles.
• Generous holiday allowance of 25 days (inclusive of set shutdown dates) allowing an excellent work‑life balance.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.

Monday – Friday (weekend work & overtime subject to business needs).

The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less‑favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability. This vacancy is advertised in line with the FORD equal opportunities policy.