£40K/yr to £50K/yr
Wolverhampton, England
Permanent, Variable

Maintenance Engineer

Posted by Hunter Selection Limited.

Maintenance Engineer

Willenhall

Days - Monday - Friday 7am-4pm

£40,000-£50,000

Benefits

  • 20 Days Holiday + BH
  • Chrismas/New Year Shutdown
  • Enhanced pension for key staff
  • Family run business

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Engineer to join this growing SME family run business.

The ideal candidate will ideally have worked within a similar manufacturing environment, a hands on engineer that will get stuck in and work effectively within a small team

Role Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working with Electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems.
  • Overhaul, repair, and refurbish existing plant machinery and ancillary equipment in the on-site maintenance workshop, in line with safe engineering practices and to maximise optimum costs.
  • Weld, grind, use a miller, lathe, and most engineering equipment.
  • Perform installation work and/or liaise with outside contractors.
  • Work to planned schedules to perform planned preventative maintenance activities in line engineering practices in a safe and productive manner.
  • Through utilisation of the PPM system ensure engineering spares and inventory on site are managed and equipment downtime in minimised.
  • Ensure clear and concise records are maintained.
  • Fault find and perform reactive maintenance at short notice.
  • Look to continuously improve in all areas such as Health and Safety and optimisation of production output.
  • Plan, monitor and manage outside use of contractors for specialised maintenance requirements.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Understanding of and worked with pneumatics
  • Understanding of and worked with gearboxes, belts, shafts, bearings, PLC understanding
  • Will get stuck in when things break down - hands on
  • The ideal candidate will come from a plastics background

Company Information

Our client is a leading plastic extrusion manufacturer based in Willenhall. They are a smaller - SME sized business that pride themselves in valuing and rewarding their team, providing longevity and development opportunities.

If you feel this is of interest, please send your CV to directly to Nicole Alldritt at

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.