Yolk Recruitment Ltd
Maintenance Engineer
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📌 Maintenance Engineer
📍 West Wales 💰 £47,000 per year DOE
What You'll Do:
You will join a fast paced food manufacturing environment as a Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer with a strong electrical skill set. This is a hands on, days based role supporting planned and reactive maintenance across a wide range of production and packing machinery. With major site investment underway, including new automated lines and a modern workshop, you will play a key part in maintaining reliability while the site continues to expand.
Your role will involve:
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance on production equipment
- Working with three phase systems, motors, control panels and electrical circuits
- Fault finding and diagnosing breakdowns quickly and safely
- Supporting mechanical repairs as part of a genuinely multiskilled team
- Basic PLC fault finding on digital and analogue systems, with training available
- Assisting with installation and commissioning of new machinery and future automated lines
- Working days, typically around 50 hours a week, with some flexibility around start and finish times
- Maintaining safe working practices and contributing to continuous improvement
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What You'll Bring:
- Experience as a Maintenance or Multiskilled Engineer within manufacturing, ideally food or FMCG
- Strong electrical competency, particularly with three phase and control panel work
- Good mechanical capability and confidence handling mechanical breakdowns
- Familiarity with PLC fault finding or an interest in developing these skills
- Practical, positive attitude with the willingness to get stuck in
- Flexibility to support production requirements when needed, while working within a supportive team
- Desire to learn, take feedback and grow with a developing engineering function
- Strong commitment to safe working and high maintenance standards
Why You Should Apply:
- Salary of around £40,000 with significant overtime availability
- Days based role in a busy food manufacturing environment
- Join a site investing in new equipment, automation and a state of the art workshop
- Become a key part of a small engineering team where your contribution is valued
- Supportive and hands on manager who understands flexibility and family commitments
- Opportunity to grow your skills in PLCs, automation and modern production systems
- Long term progression as the site continues to expand and strengthen the engineering department
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