Shift Maintenance Engineer

Leeds - LS12

£39,275 basic + Overtime | OTE £42,000+

8-Hour Shifts | Monday to Friday | Permanent

Looking for a maintenance role with 8-hour shifts rather than 12-hour days?

We’re recruiting a Shift Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established manufacturing business in Leeds.

This is a permanent opportunity offering a £39,275 basic salary, regular overtime opportunities and an OTE of £42,000+.

You’ll join an established engineering team carrying out a mixture of planned and reactive maintenance across a busy manufacturing site.

You’ll work a rotating 3-shift pattern across Monday to Friday, working 8-hour shifts:

• Mornings: 06:15 – 14:15
• Afternoons: 14:15 – 22:15
• Nights: 22:15 – 06:15
• 8-hour shifts
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime available

• £39,275 basic salary
• OTE £42,000+
• Overtime available
• 8-hour shifts
• Monday-Friday shift pattern
• 21 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension scheme
• Ongoing training and development
• Permanent, stable position
• Opportunity to develop within an established engineering team

As a Shift Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be responsible for keeping production machinery running efficiently, including:

• Planned preventative maintenance (PPM)
• Reactive maintenance and breakdown response
• Electrical and mechanical fault finding
• Repairing and maintaining production machinery
• Working with motors, sensors and control systems
• Mechanical maintenance involving bearings, belts, gearboxes, pneumatics and hydraulics
• Recording maintenance activity through CMMS
• Supporting engineering improvements and projects
• Working with production teams to reduce downtime

We’d like to hear from engineers with experience working within a manufacturing, production or industrial environment.

You could currently be working as a:

Shift Engineer | Maintenance Engineer | Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer | Multi Skilled Engineer | Electrical Maintenance Engineer | Mechanical Maintenance Engineer | Engineering Technician | Maintenance Technician

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Electrical and mechanical maintenance experience
• Strong fault-finding ability
• Experience maintaining production or manufacturing equipment
• An electrical or mechanical engineering qualification/apprenticeship
• Experience with PPM and reactive maintenance
• Ability to read engineering drawings or electrical schematics
• A practical, hands‑on approach to engineering

You don’t need to be purely electrically or mechanically biased – we’re interested in engineers who are comfortable working across both disciplines.