Site Maintenance Engineer

Location: Chard
Salary: £44,500 + 20% Shift Allowance (c. £53,400)
Hours: Monday to Friday, 6am-2pm / 2pm-10pm
No Nights

Are you an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer looking for a well-paid shift position without the night shifts? This is an opportunity to join an established industrial manufacturer in Chard, working within a varied engineering environment where you'll have real ownership of maintenance, breakdowns, reliability, and improvement work across the site.

You'll be working across specialist production equipment and site infrastructure, combining hands-on electrical and mechanical fault-finding with PPMs, projects, equipment upgrades, and continuous improvement.

The role would suit an engineer who enjoys solving problems independently and wants more involvement than simply working through a PPM schedule.

What you'll be doing

• Carrying out planned, preventative, predictive, and reactive maintenance across production machinery and site equipment.
• Electrical fault-finding within control panels, including motors, relays, sensors, and associated control equipment.
• Mechanical maintenance and repairs across conveyors, chain-driven equipment, pneumatics, hydraulics, and associated machinery.
• Fault-finding on PLC-controlled equipment, including tracing inputs, outputs, and control signals.
• Supporting equipment refurbishments, installations, upgrades, and engineering improvement projects.
• Completing root cause analysis following breakdowns and identifying opportunities to prevent repeat failures.
• Managing maintenance activity through the site's CMMS.
• Supporting and coordinating specialist contractors when required.
• Maintaining engineering spares and helping ensure critical components are available when required.
• Working closely with production and site management to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.