Maintenance Engineer
4 days ago
Hereford
When equipment stops, you're the person people want on shift. If you're the kind of engineer who can walk into a breakdown, get to the root cause quickly, and keep production moving, this role will feel right at home. Youwill be supporting planned maintenance, breakdown response, and overall equipment reliability in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where no two days are ever quite the same. About the Business This is a well-established, large-scale manufacturing operation with a strong focus on reliability, safety, and continuous improvement. The site operates high-volume production processes where engineering performance is critical to overall output. You'll be joining a stable, skilled maintenance team with a strong emphasis on teamwork, problem-solving, and keeping production running efficiently. Shift Pattern 3-shift rotating system: • 6:00am – 2:00pm, • 2:00pm – 10:00pm, • Contributory pension scheme, • 25 days / 187.5 hours annual leave, • Site performance-based quarterly bonus (not guaranteed), • Free parking, • Fault diagnosis on mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems, responding quickly to breakdowns, • Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to schedule, • Completing engineering maintenance tasks within assigned areas, • Updating CMMS records for breakdowns, downtime and maintenance history, • Ensuring effective shift handovers where applicable, • Maintaining safe working practices in line with 6S and risk assessments, • Supporting continuous improvement to reduce downtime and improve efficiency, • Supporting and developing apprentices within the team, • Ensuring plant and equipment is correctly serviced, maintained and calibrated, • Time-served apprenticeship in engineering or HNC (or equivalent) in maintenance/manufacturing engineering, • Strong fault-finding skills across mechanical and electrical systems, • Good communication skills at all levels, • Self-motivated, disciplined, and proactive approach Keen to know more? Click apply, or drop me a call on 01733391515 - Dan JTRA1_UKTJ