Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Baltic Recruitment are delighted to be supporting our market leading manufacturing client with their search for a Mechanically Biased Maintenance Engineer.

Overall Purpose:

• Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager the successful candidate will be responsible for providing planned and reactive maintenance support across a range of manufacturing equipment.
• Working safely at all times you will ensure up time and reliability targets are met.

Key Duties:

• To keep yourself and others safe at all times.
• Take ownership of machinery and lead the drive for improvement to achieve and surpass set targets in up time, mean time between failure and mean time to repair.
• Review safety requirements and maintain compliance, taking the appropriate corrective action.
• Working to PM schedules ensuring minimum disruption to production.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement with the involvement of all team members.
• Investigate maintenance problems and provide corrective action and advice.
• To comply with any reasonable request that is within your capabilities whilst maintaining safety at all times

Key Requirements:

• ONC or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years post apprenticeship experience.
• Excellent mechanical aptitude, any electrical experience is hugely beneficial.
• Knowledge of steam and compressed air systems preferred but not essential.
• Experience working with hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills.
• A self-motivated individual with an organised approach and strong effective decision making and communication skills
• Microsoft office experience.

The Package:

• 50,500 per annum including shift allowance.
• 3 shift pattern, early finish on fridays 37.5hrs per week.
• Contractual overtime working of 1 weekend in 4, Saturday & Sunday 6:00-14:00. (13 weekends in total).
• Pension - auto enrolment 4.5% contribution from the company, 4.5% from employee.
• Life assurance (death in service) - 4 x basic salary
• Holidays -April - March 25 days, Statutory bank holidays.
• A lot of training/development opportunities available.