Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (Heavy Engineering)
🔥 Tired of production-line firefighting and want a role where your mechanical skills are actually valued?
📍 Location: Wakefield
💷 Salary: £40,000 – £42,000 per year
🎁 Benefits:
✔️ Days-based role – no shifts
✔️ Early finish every Friday
✔️ Stable, long-term opportunity
✔️ Hands-on mechanical work (not just line maintenance)
✔️ Supportive, experienced engineering team
✅ Must Haves:
✔️ Strong mechanical maintenance background
✔️ Experience in heavy engineering / workshop environments
✔️ Confident fault finding on mechanical systems
✔️ Experience with machinery such as lathes, presses, or milling machines
✔️ Proactive, hands-on approach
⏰ Hours:
⏰ Monday – Thursday: 07:00 – 16:00
⏰ Friday: 07:00 – 13:00
🚀 The Opportunity
This isn’t your typical maintenance role.
You’ll be working in a true engineering environment, maintaining and repairing a wide range of heavy workshop machinery — not stuck on repetitive automated production lines.
If you enjoy getting stuck into machinery, solving real mechanical problems, and working on varied equipment, this role will give you exactly that.
You’ll play a key role in keeping operations running, with a mix of reactive breakdowns and planned maintenance, giving you variety and responsibility day-to-day.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing
Maintaining and repairing heavy mechanical equipment
Working on machinery such as lathes, milling machines, and presses
Fault finding on gearboxes, bearings, shafts, and drive systems
Supporting hydraulics and pneumatic systems
Carrying out PPMs and responding to breakdowns
Completing basic electrical fault finding where required
Supporting small improvement projects across the workshop
🌟 What We’re Looking For
A hands-on engineer who enjoys real mechanical work
Someone who thrives in a workshop or heavy engineering environment
Strong problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
A reliable team player who can also work independently
Apprentice trained or time-served (preferred)
💥 Why This Role Stands Out
✔️ No shifts – enjoy a better work-life balance
✔️ Early Friday finish – start your weekend early
✔️ Proper mechanical work – not just swapping parts on a line
✔️ Variety – no two days the same
✔️ Stable business – long-term opportunity
📩 Apply Now!
10 Recruitment are delighted to be supporting this vacancy and are shortlisting immediately — apply today to avoid missing out.
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