Job Title
Lead Maintenance Engineer – Sittingbourne (ME10 3NB)
Salary
£55,918 (including shift allowance) plus overtime benefits. 42 hours per week, 4 on – 4 off, rotating days and nights.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibilities will be to lead a team of two engineers on shift, ensuring the continuous running of the production process by eliminating downtime through a safe and logical approach to fault finding and maintenance of equipment. The team will work on various types of equipment, including complex hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical/electronic control systems.
Carry out planned and reactive engineering activities on site, working 42 hours per week, with a shift pattern of 4 on, 4 off covering both days and nights (6 am to 6 pm).
Qualifications & Skills
* Electrical and/or mechanical qualifications (time‑served apprenticeship)
* 3+ years experience operating in a medium/large automated manufacturing operation
* Experience of leading an engineering team preferable, not essential
* Good understanding of current environmental and health and safety issues with knowledge of associated regulatory requirements
* Experience in electrical fault finding, defect rectification, and routine maintenance activities
* Ability to interrogate and understand maintenance problems to provide accurate plant condition information and recommendations
* Excellent communication skills, dealing with operatives and team leaders from both maintenance and production PLC
* Knowledge of PLC and VSD advantageous
* Previous experience in mechanical fitting, hydraulics, and pneumatics
Benefits
* Set shift patterns + overtime available
* 34 days per annum or the equivalent in hours (inclusive of bank holidays)
* Guaranteed Christmas holidays
* Training and development opportunities
* 5% employer‑matched pension scheme
* Company uniform
* Free onsite parking
* Health care cash plan – support with Dental, Optical, Prescription costs, and many more!
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay and leave
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee discount on Marshalls products
* Retailer discounts, Marshalls Wellbeing Centre
* EE mobile phone discount – friends & family
* Share purchase scheme, Life assurance
* Equal opportunities statement – we welcome all backgrounds and celebrate diversity.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We’re committed to ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. To us, this is more than a legal, moral, or ethical necessity – it’s the right thing to do! We call this doing business The Marshalls Way. Whoever you are and whatever your background, at Marshalls you’ll find a fair and supportive workplace. You are unique and we want you to bring every part of who you are to work, every day.
Application
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