Maintenance Engineer (Manufacturing Environment)
📍 Location: Coventry area
💷 Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 + overtime + on-call payments
🕒 Hours: Days, 8:00am - 4:30pm moving to afters
🎄 Holidays: 30 days + Christmas shutdown
The Role
We are recruiting an experienced Maintenance Engineer Elec bias to join a well-established manufacturing site operating within a fast-paced production environment. You'll work as part of a skilled engineering team ensuring plant, production, and packing equipment runs safely, efficiently, and reliably.
This role suits a hands-on, time-served engineer with strong fault-finding ability and a proactive approach to continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Communicate effectively with engineering colleagues and production teams via shift logs and email systems
Accurately record data and plant readings, including industrial refrigeration systems
Diagnose faults and carry out repairs to mechanical and electrical equipment to minimise downtime
Use planned preventative maintenance (PPM) systems effectively
Support continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and production
Work on a wide variety of equipment including:
Pneumatics, hydraulics, steam systems
Three-phase electrics, inverters and PLCs
Compressed air systems
Industrial refrigeration
Mechanical components such as bearings and drives
About You
Time-served engineer or completed apprenticeship (electrical qualification preferred)
Strong background in manufacturing or FMCG environments
Practical, hands-on mindset - "old school" engineer style with solid fault-finding skills
Willing to learn site-specific equipment and systems
The Package
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
Overtime available
On-call rota: Weekends only during peak period (April-December), £50 call-out fee regardless of attendance
Pension: 3% employer / 5% employee (NEST)
Life assurance: x2 salary
Holidays: 30 days + Christmas shutdown (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day)
No bank holiday shutdown - production runs as normal with enhanced holiday entitlement