Morgan Ryder
Maintenance Engineer
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Shift Maintenance Engineer
Earlies, Lates, Nights
Dalkeith
Are you a hands-on Mechanical or Electrical Engineer looking for a new challenge within a modern manufacturing environment? This is an excellent opportunity to join an established and successful manufacturing business where you will play a key role in keeping a busy production operation running safely, efficiently, and reliably.
You don't need to have previous experience within manufacturing. We are interested in people who have strong electrical and/or mechanical maintenance skills and are comfortable working with automated production machinery.
The Role
Working as part of the site engineering team, you will be responsible for maintaining a wide range of production and plant equipment, responding to breakdowns, and carrying out planned preventative maintenance to maximize equipment availability.
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Key Tasks
- Responding quickly and effectively to production breakdowns
- Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance
- Electrical and mechanical fault finding
- Diagnosing faults on automated production machinery
- Working with PLCs, drives, motors, sensors, and control systems
- Maintaining pneumatic and mechanical systems
- Working closely with production colleagues to minimize downtime
- Ensuring all maintenance activities are carried out safely and to the required standards
Requirements
We are interested in speaking with multi-skilled, electrical, or mechanically biased engineers who have experience of fault finding, troubleshooting, and repair in manufacturing or an industrial environment.
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You will ideally have:
- Recognised engineering qualification or apprenticeship
- Strong practical maintenance experience
- Good electrical and/or mechanical fault-finding ability
- A proactive approach to identifying and resolving problems
- The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
- Flexibility to work a shift pattern
- Experience with PLCs, inverters/VSDs, motors, sensors, pneumatics, or similar – advantageous
Rate
Fixed rate - £21.13 p/h (£39,500 based on an average 36-hour week)
Benefits
- 5% employer pension contribution
- 3x salary death-in-service
- Employee assistance programme/private GP
- Charity support
- Cycle-to-work
- £500 referral bonus
- Benefits hub and mortgage advice
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