Job Description
Maintenance Engineer
Job Title Maintenance Engineer
Location Liverpool, Merseyside
Salary £44,000 (rising to approx. £45,300 in April + 3% review)
Shift Rotating Shift Pattern (Days/Nights)
- Week 1 & 2: 6:00am 2:00pm
- Week 3: 10:00pm 6:00am (Sunday Thursday)
- Week 4: 2:00pm 10:00pm (Mon Fri)
- On-call: 1 weekend in 4 (moving to 1 in 5)
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Engineer to join a leading manufacturer within the waste management and recycling container industry. This is a well-established, internationally backed business with a strong reputation for innovation, investment, and long-term engineering development.
You will be responsible for both the maintenance of factory facilities and a wide range of production equipment including machinery, tooling, moulds, and supporting systems. Working as part of a skilled engineering team, you will play a key role in ensuring maximum uptime, efficient production, and continuous improvement across site operations.
This is a highly varied role covering both planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdowns within a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Responsibilities of the Maintenance Engineer- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance
- Fault finding and repair of mechanical and electrical systems
- Maintaining factory equipment, machinery, and moulding systems
- Supporting installation and implementation of new equipment and investments
- Working closely with the engineering team on maintenance planning
- Diagnosing faults on control systems including sensors, relays, contactors, and inverters
- Mechanical work including hydraulics, pneumatics, bearings, belts, and chains
- Supporting continuous improvement activities across site
- Participating in on-call rota system
- Injection moulding machines
- Industrial robots
- Vacuum pumps and vacuum systems
- Granulators
- Hydraulic systems
- Automated production equipment (approx. 2000 units per day output)
- Level 3 in Engineering
- Mechanical Bias Engineer
- Factory or Manufacturing or Forces
- Injection moulding experience
- Tooling / toolmaking background
- Experience in plastics manufacturing
- Industrial heavy engineering background
- Forces background considered
- Working for a well-established European manufacturing leader
- Strong investment in training and development
- Opportunities for external training courses (including Level 4 Injection Moulding)
- Potential training opportunities in Spain at sister facilities
- Clear progression and long-term development opportunities
- Pension scheme
- Healthcare plan (after 6 months)
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Free onsite parking
- Ongoing salary increases and review