Job Description
Mechanical Maintenance Engineer – Permanent Nights
Commutable: Basildon, South Ockendon, Rainham, Wickford
10:00pm – 6:00am | Monday–Friday (flexibility available)
Salary- up to £54,000 a year
My client is seeking a proactive, hands-on Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join our permanent night-shift engineering team at our large-scale manufacturing facility in Essex. This is a newly created role to support increased site coverage as part of ongoing investment and growth. Working within highly automated manufacturing environment, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance across production plant and site services. You'll play a key role in reducing downtime, improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and supporting continuous improvement across complex, high-speed production lines. This is a multi-skilled role with a strong mechanical bias. As the only engineer on nights at times, you'll need basic electrical fault-finding capability alongside strong mechanical expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Carry out planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance on production plant and associated services
2. Must be Ideally apprentice trained with relevant engineering qualifications
3. Strong mechani...