🔧 Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

📍 Location: West Yorkshire
🕒 Working Hours: 39 hours/week, 3 × 12-hour night shifts plus 1 out of 4 Sundays (0600-1800/1800-0600)
Reporting to: Engineering Manager

Are you a hands-on Mechanical Maintenance Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced production environment? Do you enjoy fault-finding, improving machinery performance, and keeping production running at peak efficiency? If so, this could be the role for you.
🚀 The Role

You'll play a key role in ensuring production machinery is maintained, repaired, and improved to the highest standard - minimising downtime and maximising output. Working closely with engineering, production, suppliers, and contractors, you'll be a trusted problem-solver on site.
🛠 Key Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance on plant and production equipment
• Diagnose and repair mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and basic electrical faults
• Install, relocate, and improve production machinery
• Read and interpret mechanical drawings
• Specify, order, and book in spare parts
• Complete maintenance records, timesheets, and associated paperwork
• Liaise with contractors, suppliers, engineers, and internal departments
• Support stock takes and continuous improvement activities
• Maintain the highest standards of health & safety at all times

📊 How Success Is Measured

• Reduction in machine downtime
• Speed and effectiveness of breakdown response
• Quality and reliability of repairs
• Accuracy and consistency of maintenance records

👤 What We're Looking For

Qualifications & Experience

• Recognised Mechanical qualification (NVQ / City & Guilds / BTEC / HNC or similar)
• Experience in a high-speed, high-pressure production environment
• Background in printing or carton manufacturing desirable
• Experience with Packaging machinery ideally Cut & Crease, or Folder Gluers an advantage
• PC literate with basic Excel and Word skills

Personal Attributes

• Multi-skilled, reliable, and highly conscientious
• Calm under pressure with strong organisational skills
• Proactive, "can-do" attitude with excellent problem-solving ability
• Comfortable working independently or as part of a team
• Flexible with working hours and overtime when required

🏭 Working Environment

• Fast-paced factory setting with manual handling requirements
• Adherence to strict health & safety standard

📩 Interested?
If you're a practical, driven maintenance engineer looking for a stable role where your skills genuinely make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.