Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Job role: Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £41,000-£42,000 DOE + overtime @ 1.5x
Location: Leicester, Leicestershire
Hours: Monday-Wednesday (3 days off), Sunday-Wednesday (8 days off) Thursday-Friday (2 days off) / Rotation starts again.
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

The client:
Interaction Technical are supporting a well-established printing firm based in Leicester on their search for a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join their growing team. Our client works with both national and international blue-chip companies within multi-billion pound industries, providing and manufacturing marketing material by utilising their state-of-the-art printing facility. The client is now looking to add a multi-skilled maintenance engineer to their day shift team and offer a great opportunity to work within an exciting industry, for a growing yet well-established company.

The Benefits:
· Overtime available and paid at 1.5x
· 25 Days Holiday including bank holidays (pro rata)
· Employee of the quarter award - financial bonus
· Loyalty and long service recognitions schemes
· Pension scheme (employer match contribution up to 5%)
· Medical benefits (eye tests, private GP Healthline, online wellbeing etc)
· Discounted Medical Insurance
· Life Assurance
· Company uniform

The Role:
· Electrical & Mechanical fault finding & rectification on commercial printing machinery
· Conducting planned and preventative maintenance on site machinery
· Following health and safety policies and procedures
· Collaborate with the engineering manager to ensure smooth production of the plant
· Take part and promote 6S Lean Manufacturing within the Engineering department
· Attend regular maintenance meetings to review current PPMs and breakdowns of the plant machinery.
· Ensure plant layout changes and installations are completed within the required timescale
· There is a call out rota as part of this role, although call out is scarce

The Requirements:
· Minimum 3 years experience as a maintenance engineer
· Multiskilled engineer with either a mechanical or electrical bias (essential)
· Mechanical, Electrical, Pneumatic & Hydraulic fault finding capabilities (essential)
· Relevant mechanical/electrical Qualifications (City & Guilds/NVQs/17th/18th edition) - essential
· PLC knowledge - proven ability to modify (advantageous)
· In depth understanding of fault finding/diagnostics on manufacturing machinery

Interaction Recruitment have specialist consultants across the majority of industries within the UK, including but not limited to, Finance & IT, Technical & Engineering, Industrial, Commercial and Hospitality. We offer both temporary and permanent support. For more information regarding the position or to discuss any other opportunities, you can reach Reegan on or email

Thank you for taking the time, we hope to speak in the near future.

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