Maintenance Engineer

As a Maintenance Engineer in Derby, you will join a specialist manufacturing business, splitting your time between workshop tasks and customer sites across the UK. Your focus is assembling, calibrating, and repairing sealing equipment, plus resolving technical faults on innovative packaging machinery. This full-time role pays £34,000 annually and covers all travel costs. You will support clients directly, applying your hands-on problem-solving skills to build and maintain complex systems.

The position suits a proactive engineer seeking variety and the chance to deepen expertise through practical work. Responsibilities include equipment upkeep, on-site service visits, and technical assistance, offering a diverse workload within a growing sector. Are you a hands-on engineer who enjoys solving technical problems, building machinery, and working directly with customers?

As a Sealer Support Technician, you'll be responsible for supporting customers, assembling and maintaining sealing equipment, carrying out calibrations and repairs, and assisting with the continuous improvement of machinery and processes.

• Build, assemble and test sealing machinery from technical drawings.
• Carry out equipment calibrations, servicing and repairs both in-house and at customer sites.
• Manage spare parts stock levels and complete regular stock checks.
• Support customers with technical enquiries via phone and email.
• Assist with the development and improvement of packaging machinery and production equipment.

• We're looking for a practical and organised engineer with strong technical knowledge and excellent problem-solving abilities.
• Apprenticeship-trained engineer or qualified to HNC/HND level in a relevant discipline.
• Knowledge of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and PLC systems.
• Ability to read and work from technical drawings.
• Strong communication skills with a customer-focused approach.
• Competent using Microsoft Office and maintaining technical records.

• Salary of £34,000 .
• 21 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Employee assistance programme
• Health and wellbeing programme including health checks and reward days
• Bonus scheme after 12 months of employment
• Occasional UK travel with all travel expenses fully covered .
• Ongoing training and development within a supportive team environment.

Interested? If you're a motivated engineer who enjoys a mix of technical hands-on work, customer interaction and UK travel, we'd love to hear from you.