📌 Maintenance Engineer - Days

📍 Cwm (South Wales)

💰 £36,500 - £38,500

What You'll Do:

• Join a growing Material processing facility where no two days look the same.
• You will be part of a hands-on engineering team, playing a key role in keeping plant operations running efficiently and safely.
• Carry out daily inspections across plant and workshop areas, ensuring high safety and housekeeping standards.
• Work from maintenance schedules and job sheets, prioritising urgent tasks effectively.
• Deliver planned preventative maintenance, forming the majority of your workload.
• Respond to breakdowns quickly to minimise downtime across the site.
• Maintain and repair conveyors, screening equipment, and plant machinery.
• Work within permit systems, risk assessments, and safe systems of work.
• Support a fast-paced environment, handling multiple maintenance challenges each day.

What You'll Bring:

• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent qualification.
• At least 5 years' experience within manufacturing, production, or heavy plant environments.
• Strong mechanical background with experience on conveyors, rollers, belts, motors, and gearboxes.
• Confident fault finding and ability to strip down and rebuild mechanical components.
• Solid hydraulics knowledge, including pressure testing and component replacement.
• Understanding of pneumatics and ability to fault find and repair systems.
• Experience dealing with common plant issues such as blockages, belt failures, and component breakdowns.
• Basic electrical knowledge including isolation and safe working practices is desirable.
• Exposure to PLC systems would be advantageous but not essential.
• A proactive, team-focused attitude with strong problem-solving ability.
• Comfortable working in a demanding, hands-on waste processing environment.