Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical bias), £48,000, Arnold Nottinghamshire, days 8:00am-4:30pm Mon-Fri and around 28 shift cover annually.

OTE of £55,000 thanks to overtime (paid at 1.5x and 2x) and bonuses. Generous 10% pension, plus other site-specific benefits.

The Opportunity

We are recruiting for a maintenance engineer to join a large, well-invested site that forms part of a nationally recognised group. This is a high-performing facility with state-of-the-art machinery and an experienced engineering team. You’ll benefit from an excellent rota that allows for regular long weekends off while earning a strong base salary and enjoying long-term job security.

The Role

As a maintenance engineer, you’ll work with a range of heavy-duty automated machinery including:

• Large mixers and slicers
• Conveyors, silos, and hoppers
• Kilns, hydraulics, and pneumatics systems

Your focus will be 70% reactive and 30% PPM, using a tablet system for job tracking. This role places a strong emphasis on mechanical maintenance and repair. You’ll need to be confident working with hydraulics, pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, and chains. Fabrication and welding experience is a plus.

The Person We’re Looking For

To succeed in this role as a maintenance engineer, you’ll need:

• A strong background in mechanical maintenance within industrial or manufacturing environments
• Experience working on gearboxes, motors, belts, pulleys, hydraulics, and pneumatics
• Confidence with strip-downs, rebuilds, and reactive mechanical fault diagnosis
• An NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent qualification in engineering (ex-Forces welcome)
• A proactive attitude and flexibility for overtime and development

This is an ideal role for a maintenance engineer who wants to develop their career in a stable, well-backed facility with real progression and training opportunities.

Why apply?

Joining our client, you will be joining a business that place emphasis on training, development and progression of their engineers. The site in Nottinghamshire is one of their most established and an important cog in the company wheel, it’s a large profit contributor providing extreme job security. You will be joining a company that look after their engineer’s future, with an industry leading pension of 10% contribution.

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