Maintenance Engineer – East Manchester
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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.