Lead Engineer

Company:  EVP Recruitment Ltd
Location: Wighton
Closing Date: 07/07/2026
Salary: £40,000 - £60,000 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent

Job Description

Are you a Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for a new opportunity? An exciting opportunity has arisen for our client who is a leading manufacturing company in their sector.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance engineer to lead and contribute to the development of the maintenance team through further planned maintenance, reactive and development of continuous improvement activities.

The role:

Working on a day shift Monday to Friday, you'll be reporting to the Engineering Manager responsible for maintenance duties on manufacturing and plant equipment.

Working in a fast-paced, manufacturing environment, you will be an experienced maintenance engineer who is skilled and knowledgeable in Mechanical and Electrical maintenance. The client will consider a bias in Electrical or Mechanical, however Multi-skilled is essential.

Duties:

-You will be responsible in carrying out regular routine and breakdown maintenance on Electrical/ Mechanical equipment. Please note the majority of the breakdowns are of a Multi-skilled nature.

- Working knowledge or understanding of electrical systems, transformers, motors and various types of motor control systems, PLC fault finding.

- Repair and maintain plant manufacturing equipment for all Hydraulic, Pneumatic and Electrical breakdowns.

- Experience with machine HMI s, PLC s and diagnostics is desirable

- Developing and implementing planned maintenance systems.

The requirements:

- Experience working with Pneumatics, Hydraulics and Electrics.

- Strong Mechanical/Electrical fault finding skills.

- Adaptable, flexible and self-motivated individual.

- Time served as an apprentice in a mechanical/electrical engineering background or HNC/HND qualified.

-Experience of working within a manufacturing environment

- A good working knowledge of manufacturing processes

Please note that whilst this is a wish list of requirements for the ideal candidate the client would also provide professional training to the right individual.

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