Maintenance Engineer – East Manchester

Maintenance Engineer – East Manchester

Manufacturing | Production & Packaging Machinery

Day Shifts

A long-established manufacturing business in East Manchester is looking to recruit a Maintenance Engineer to support production uptime across manufacturing, process, and packaging machinery along with site services equipment.

This is a stable manufacturing environment with a well-established engineering team, long-standing workforce, and a varied workload covering reactive maintenance, planned maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvement activity across the plant.

The Maintenance Engineer role would suit someone from a manufacturing, FMCG, packaging, food production, process manufacturing, or industrial production background who enjoys a hands-on engineering environment with a mix of mechanical and electrical maintenance work.

The Maintenance Engineer Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be responsible for keeping production machinery and site services running efficiently while supporting engineering improvements across the factory.

The Maintenance Engineer will be working on:

• Production machinery
• Process equipment
• Packaging machinery
• Conveyors and automated equipment
• Pumps, motors, gearboxes, and drives
• Pneumatics and hydraulics
• Site services and utilities 

Responsibilities

• Reactive and planned maintenance across manufacturing machinery
• Fault finding on electrical and mechanical systems
• Supporting production to minimise downtime
• Preventative maintenance and engineering inspections
• Working on packaging lines and process equipment
• Assisting with continuous improvement projects
• Maintaining site services equipment and utilities
• Supporting engineering standards and health & safety compliance 

Requirements for this Maintenance Engineer role:

• Previous experience as a Maintenance Engineer within manufacturing
• Multi-skilled engineering background preferred
• Experience working on production, process, or packaging machinery
• Electrical fault finding ability beneficial
• Mechanical maintenance experience essential
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Engineering qualification such as NVQ, City & Guilds, or apprenticeship preferred 

The Business

• Long-established manufacturing business
• Stable production environment
• Established engineering team
• Ongoing investment in machinery and production equipment
• Varied engineering workload across manufacturing and site services 

Package

• £42,000 - £45,000 pa (salary level dependent on experience)
• Day shift role
• Overtime available
• Pension
• Training and development
• Permanent position
• East Manchester location

If you’re a Maintenance Engineer looking for a stable manufacturing environment with a varied engineering workload across production, process, packaging machinery, and site services, apply today for immediate consideration.