Maintenance Engineer - Mechanical Bias

Salary: £50,000

Location:

Oldbury

£50,000 | Mechanical Bias | Established Manufacturing Business

A long-established manufacturing business based in Oldbury is looking to strengthen its Maintenance team with the appointment of an experienced Maintenance Engineer.

This is a mechanically biased maintenance role, ideally suited to an engineer with a strong background in mechanical maintenance, machinery, hydraulics, pneumatics and breakdown response, alongside a good understanding of electrical systems and controls.

Working from a busy manufacturing facility, you will be responsible for keeping production equipment and machinery operating reliably through a combination of planned preventative maintenance, fault-finding and reactive breakdown support.

The Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across site machinery and equipment.
• Responding to and resolving mechanical breakdowns, minimising production downtime.
• Supporting electrical fault-finding and breakdown activities where required.
• Diagnosing faults across mechanical, electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• Reading and interpreting mechanical and electrical engineering drawings.
• Carrying out repairs, adjustments and improvements to production machinery.
• Working with PLC-controlled machinery and supporting faul...