Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join a leading international defence manufacturer experiencing significant growth and investment at its Stockport facility.

12-hour shifts, days and nights (every other weekend off). Up to £58K including shift premium. With a strong order book supporting major UK defence programmes, this role offers excellent job security and outstanding long-term career prospects.

This is a varied, hands-on maintenance role supporting traditional and advanced manufacturing equipment, within a busy heavy-engineering environment. The Role Working within the manufacturing maintenance team, you'll be responsible for ensuring production machinery and equipment operate safely, reliably and efficiently, minimising downtime and supporting continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include

Carrying out planned preventative and reactive maintenance on manufacturing machinery and equipment. Diagnosing and repairing electrical and mechanical faults, including CNC machinery. Fault-finding on PLCs, inverters, drives and machinery control systems.

Supporting the maintenance and repair of a range of heavy equipment. Investigating equipment failures, identifying root causes and implementing lasting solutions. Improving machinery reliability, availability and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).

Supporting the development of preventative maintenance schedules and procedures. Recording maintenance activities and equipment performance using maintenance management systems. Working closely with production and engineering teams to minimise disruption and improve manufacturing efficiency.

About You We're looking for a practical, proactive Maintenance Engineer with strong electrical fault-finding skills and experience working in a manufacturing or engineering environment. Ideally, you'll have: Experience as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Technician or Electrical Maintenance Engineer.

A strong electrical background with complementary mechanical maintenance skills. Experience fault-finding on PLCs, inverters, drives and industrial control systems. Experience maintaining and repairing manufacturing machinery.

Knowledge of planned preventative maintenance and continuous improvement. An HNC/HND in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent relevant qualifications and experience. Good problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Ability to develop skills on CNC machinery, and associated automation and more traditional equipment. What's o...

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