Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

North Bristol

53,500 + Weekly Pay + Paid Breaks + Excellent Benefits

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to join a large, well-invested manufacturing business that continues to invest heavily in its engineering function, equipment and people.

The site is a technically interesting manufacturing operation with a strong engineering team and an excellent reputation for staff retention. Alongside supporting day-to-day production, the engineering department plays an active role in driving reliability improvements, continuous improvement projects and group-wide engineering initiatives.

If you're the type of engineer who enjoys getting to the root cause of problems rather than simply replacing parts, this could be an excellent opportunity.

The Role

Working as part of a multi-skilled engineering team, you'll be responsible for planned preventative maintenance, reactive breakdown support and continuous improvement across a varied manufacturing plant.

You'll be involved in maintaining and improving a broad range of equipment including:

Process plant and production machinery
Pumps, valves and pipework
Steam and heating systems
Conveyors and automated equipment
Three-phase motors and motor control systems
Sensors, relays, contactors and control panels
Variable speed drives and electrical fault finding
Bearings, gearboxes, chains, sprockets and mechanical power transmission
Hydraulic and pneumatic systems
PLC-controlled equipment

Beyond day-to-day maintenance, you'll also contribute to:

Root cause analysis and reliability improvements
Planned engineering projects
Equipment upgrades and modifications
Continuous improvement initiatives
Supporting wider group engineering and reliability programmes
Improving plant performance, efficiency and equipment availability

This is an environment where engineers are encouraged to challenge recurring issues, recommend improvements and play an active part in developing engineering standards across the wider business.

Shift Pattern

12-hour rotating shift pattern (days and nights)
One full week off within each rotation (rota will be provided upon application)
Excellent work-life balance

What's on Offer

Salary of around 53,500
Weekly pay
Paid breaks
Company pension
Generous holiday allowance
Ongoing technical training and development
Investment in engineering and manufacturing technology
Long-term career progression within a large multi-site manufacturing group
Opportunity to contribute to wider engineering and reliability projects across the business

About You

We're keen to hear from maintenance engineers who enjoy fault finding and improving equipment reliability.

You'll ideally have experience working within a manufacturing, production, process or automated engineering environment and be confident fault finding across both electrical and mechanical systems.

Whether your experience comes from FMCG, packaging, aerospace, automotive, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, building products or another manufacturing sector, we'd be interested in hearing from you if you enjoy solving problems and making equipment perform at its best.