Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer

Overview

Maintenance Engineer (Manufacturing / Distribution) –

Location:

Stoke on Trent

Start Date:

Immediately

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Maintenance Engineer to join our manufacturing and distribution client operation. You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, safety, and efficiency of all plant, machinery, and site facilities. This is a hands-on role requiring strong fault-finding skills, a proactive maintenance approach, and the ability to work across mechanical, electrical, and general building maintenance disciplines.

• Working with the maintenance team to guarantee the safe operation of all machinery.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on manufacturing and site equipment to minimise downtime.
• Taking ownership of jobs and following it through to the end from diagnosis to ordering parts and fitting and testing.
• Adherence to health, safety and environmental regulations.
• Respond to reactive maintenance issues, diagnosing faults and completing repairs efficiently.
• Take ownership of maintenance tasks from fault diagnosis through to parts ordering, repair, testing, and sign-off.
• Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability and maintenance processes.
• Ensure all work is carried out in line with health, safety, and environmental regulations.
• Maintain accurate maintenance records and documentation.
• Assist with general site and building maintenance when required.
• Liaise with external contractors and suppliers as necessary.

• Minimum of 5 years working experience.
• You will be a practical and reliable engineer with experience working in a manufacturing, distribution or production environment.
• Mechanical and/or electrical engineering background (electrical bias advantageous).
• Ability to read and interpret electrical and mechanical drawings.
• Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
• Experience maintaining production machinery and automated equipment.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good IT literacy for maintenance systems and reporting.
• Relevant engineering qualifications (NVQ, City & Guilds, HNC, or equivalent).
• Experience with in furniture, joinery, sanitaryware, or similar manufacturing environments.
• Working with, but not limited to CNC, hydraulic press, automatic spray booths, panel cutting machines, edging machines and robotics.
• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, and basic PLC fault finding.

Job Reference (when applying): • #MAINENG