Maintenance Engineer
Location: Leeds
Salary: £49,000- £52,000
A leading UK-based manufacturing business within the industrial sector is looking to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its established engineering team. This role is critical to maintaining world-class manufacturing standards, with a strong focus on plant reliability, safety, quality, and continuous improvement. You'll be working in a fast-paced factory environment, supporting production through effective reactive and preventative maintenance.
The Role
* Working as part of a skilled maintenance team, you'll be responsible for diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, and completing planned maintenance across a range of mechanical and electrical systems.
Key Responsibilities
* Reacting to and resolving plant breakdowns to minimise downtime
* Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance (PPM)
* High-level mechanical fault finding with basic electrical diagnostics
* Working on hydraulics, pneumatics, pumps, gearboxes, valves, drives and machine shop equipment
* Welding (MIG, TIG, Stick) and use of lathes and mills where required
* Electrical fault finding at a basic level (sensors, 3-phase motors, safe isolation)
* Accurately recording work orders, breakdowns, parts used and time taken
* Supporting continuous improvement initiatives and plant reliability reviews
* Ensuring all work complies with Health & Safety, quality and environmental standards
* Must be happy to work a permanent nights shift (39 hours a week)
Qualifications
* Apprentice-trained Maintenance Engineer (UK experience essential)
* Multi-skilled background (mechanical or electrical bias)
* Previous experience in a manufacturing or factory environment
* Strong fault-finding and breakdown experience
* Electrically biased engineers: comfortable with mechanical maintenance
* Mechanically biased engineers: must read electrical schematics and fault-find sensors & 3-phase motors
* Steady career history
* Ideally living within 45 minutes commute
Benefits
* Company pension (up to 5%)
* Annual company bonus (paid most years)
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Death in service (4x salary)
* Christmas shutdown (3 days taken from allowance)
* Enhanced maternity & paternity pay
* Buy & sell holiday scheme
* Long-term job security within a stable manufacturing business
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