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Maintance Engineer

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Maintenance Engineer
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Salary: £23.91 per hour (£43,421 basic salary) + 10% night shift allowance + overtime opportunities
Contract: Permanent
Shift Pattern: Customer Demand Led Rota (CDLR) - 3 x 12-hour shifts per week (1816 annualised hours)
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established manufacturing site in Bradford. The role involves a mix of planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown work across a variety of production machinery. Around 70% of the workload is mechanically focused, making this a great opportunity for either a mechanically biased or multi-skilled engineer who enjoys fault finding and problem solving.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive breakdown repairs.
- Diagnose and rectify mechanical and electrical faults.
- Maintain production machinery and associated equipment.
- Work on conveyors, bearings, motors, pulleys, timing belts, sensors and pneumatic equipment.
- Support continuous improvement and reliability initiatives.
- Complete maintenance records using maintenance management systems.
- Assist with machine installations, testing and commissioning activities.
- Work closely with production teams to minimise downtime and maximise performance.
- Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out safely and in line with company procedures.
What We're Looking For
We're open to engineers from a variety of manufacturing backgrounds. Whilst an electrically biased engineer would be advantageous, strong mechanically biased engineers with some electrical fault-finding experience are also of interest.
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Essential
- Experience working as a Maintenance Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer or Electrical Maintenance Engineer.
- Manufacturing or production maintenance experience.
- Experience carrying out reactive and preventative maintenance.
- Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working on production machinery.
- Knowledge of conveyors, bearings, motors and mechanical drive systems.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn.
- Multi-skilled maintenance background.
- Electrical fault-finding experience.
- Experience working with:
- Pneumatics
- Hydraulics
- Sensors
- Timing belts
- Pulleys
- Lathes
- Milling machines
- PLC fault finding
- Experience within packaging, FMCG, food manufacturing, plastics, recycling or other manufacturing environments.
Qualifications
Essential
- Engineering apprenticeship, NVQ, City & Guilds or equivalent engineering qualification.
- Previous maintenance engineering experience.
Desirable
- Mechanical or Electrical Engineering qualification.
- Multi-skilled engineering training.
- Additional electrical qualifications.
Shift Pattern & Benefits
- £23.91 per hour (£43,421 basic salary).
- Additional 10% night shift allowance.
- Overtime opportunities available.
- 3 x 12-hour shifts per week.
- Annual rota provided in advance.
- Annualised hours contract (1816 hours per year).
- Maximum of four working days per week.
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays.
- 20 protected holiday days.
- Pension scheme through Legal & General with employer contributions up to 11%.
- Training and development opportunities.
- Excellent work-life balance.


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Why Join?
- Join a stable manufacturing business with approximately 130 employees onsite.
- Supportive and experienced engineering team.
- Opportunity to work on a broad range of manufacturing equipment.
- Training available to help develop your skills and career.
- Annual rota provided in advance, offering excellent visibility of your working year.
- Genuine long-term career opportunity within a business that values attitude, reliability and continuous development.
The Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate will be someone who:
- Has a solid maintenance engineering background.
- Enjoys fault finding and problem solving.
- Takes pride in their work and working environment.
- Works well as part of a team.
- Has a stable employment history.
- Is looking to continue learning and developing their engineering skills.
- Wants to build a long-term career within a supportive engineering environment.
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