Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location:

Hixon, Stafford (ST18 0PY
)

Salary:
Up to £17.00 per hour (DOE)

Hours:

Full Time, Permanent

Shifts:

4 x 12‑hour shifts per week (week days, week nights & weekend days on rotation)

As a Multiskilled Maintenance Operative, you will carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive repairs across a wide range of plant machinery and site equipment. You will support the Shift Foreman and Engineering Manager to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable site operations.

There is genuine potential for career progression, including future team leader opportunities.

• Carry out PPM and breakdown repairs
• Electrical and mechanical fault finding & diagnostics
• Maintain a range of plant equipment, including:
  • Hydraulics & pneumatics
  • Conveyors, crushers, furnaces, mills & mobile plant
• Fault finding on motors, inverters, and Siemens PLC‑based control systems
• Electrical work on single‑phase, three‑phase and 24
  
  VDC systems
• Replace bearings, housings, belts, and motors
• Distribution board inspections & panel improvements
• Maintenance on low‑voltage infrastructure systems
• Basic welding and fabrication when required
• Contribute to site improvement projects
• Opportunity to develop further in electrical control, PLC automation, and hydraulic/pneumatic systems

• Recognised mechanical, electrical or engineering qualification
• NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering / Mechatronics (or equivalent)
• 17th or 18th Edition
• Minimum 5 years' experience maintaining plant or production equipment
• Strong fault‑finding skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Experience in heavy industry such as:
  • Foundry
  • Recycling
  • Quarry/aggregates
  • Process manufacturing
• Siemens TIA experience beneficial but not essential.

• Health & wellbeing programme
• On‑site parking