Maintenance Engineer - Nights

Maintenance Engineer - Night Shift
Night shift - Full time (37.5 Hours) - Monday-Friday - Gloucester - Salary £56,200
 
Due to continued growth, my client is looking for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join their team on a permanent night shift. This is a broad, hands-on engineering role supporting a busy manufacturing environment across planned and reactive maintenance. A strong fault finder with both mechanical and electrical experience would thrive in this position.
 
The Role:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance across production and facility equipment
• Respond to machinery breakdowns and restore equipment to operation safely and efficiently
• Diagnose and repair mechanical and electrical faults
• Work with pumps, valves, bearings, chains, hydraulics and pneumatics
• Maintain and repair lathes, presses, CNC routers and water-jet equipment
• Fault find on single-phase and three-phase motors
• Support fault finding on PLCs and associated control systems
• Identify potential equipment failures before they impact production
• Help improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime
• Complete and record maintenance activity through internal CMMS systems
• Work closely with production teams, contractors and external suppliers
• Prioritise maintenance activity in line with production and safety requirements
• Ensure compliance with Health and Safety procedures

• Previous maintenance experience within a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding experience
• Experience completing planned and reactive maintenance
• Experience working with motors, electrical control systems and three-phase equipment
• PLC fault-finding experience - Advantageous
• Experience with bearings, pumps, valves, chains, hydraulics and pneumatics
• Experience using CMMS or maintenance management systems
• Able to work independently and take ownership of breakdowns and maintenance activity
• Time-served Maintenance Engineer, City & Guilds or NVQ - Advantageous
• MEWP, Counterbalance FLT and welding/fabrication experience - Advantageous