Wallace McDowall Limited
Maintenance Engineer
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Wallace McDowall Limited
Requires a Multi – Skilled Maintenance Engineer with a strong mechanical engineering bias and some electrical fault-finding experience.
Wallace McDowall Limited is a specialist in the design and manufacture of bespoke metal components, providing subcontracted precision cutting, machining, welding, powder coating, and assembly services. We support clients across the Yellow Goods, Rail, Transport, and general manufacturing sectors. The company is well-known as a reliable complete service provider with a high level of technical competency and extensively developed in-house facilities, which has enabled it to build up strong, long-standing client relationships and earn an excellent reputation within the market sectors it operates in. The company has invested extensively in the development of state-of-the-art facilities.
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This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced maintenance engineer to support a busy manufacturing environment and play a key role in improving equipment uptime, reliability, and site performance.
Responsibilities
- Reactive, proactive, and planned maintenance across a wide range of factory equipment
- Support plant uptime including lasers cutting machines, CNC machining centres, press brakes, welding/fabrication equipment, and general site services.
- Respond to plant downtime to ensure that the plant can maximize throughput and meet customer demand.
- Support facilities and site services maintenance activities.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels to ensure alignment with business goals and objectives.
- Always work safely and in line with company procedures.
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Skills Profile
- Recognised Mechanical or Multi Skilled apprenticeship or 10 plus years’ experience in a similar role within a fast-moving manufacturing environment.
- Strong mechanical fault finding and diagnostic skills.
- Basic electrical fault-finding experience
- Experience of PLC’s, motor, and inverter drives.
- Ability to read technical drawings (Mechanical and Electrical)
- Willing to work overtime as required to keep plant operational.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office.
- Forklift truck and IPAF license preferable but not essential.
What we offer
- Competitive hourly rate
- Bonus scheme
- 39 hours Monday-Friday (1300 finish)
- Company pension
- Death in service benefit
- Free tea & coffee
- Opportunity to develop and progress
- Internal and external training to support the role and personal development
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