£37000 - £45000 per annum + 25 days + bank holidays + bonus Leominster, Herefordshire

Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer

Salary: £37,000 – £45,000
Location: Leominster
Hours: Monday – Friday, 7:00am – 3:00pm

Company Overview

We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established manufacturing business seeking a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful operation where you’ll play a key role in maintaining equipment reliability, supporting production performance, and driving continuous improvement.

The Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for servicing, fault-finding, repairing, and optimising a range of production equipment. Working closely with Production and Engineering teams, you’ll help maximise machine uptime, improve operational efficiency, and support ongoing improvement projects across the site.

Key Responsibilities

Service, maintain, and repair production machinery and associated equipment
Diagnose and resolve mechanical and electrical faults
Complete planned preventative maintenance, asset care, and condition monitoring activities
Set up, adjust, and optimise manufacturing equipment
Support production teams to maximise equipment performance and minimise downtime
Drive and support continuous improvement projects
Assist with annual maintenance and overhaul programmes
Ensure compliance with GMP, quality, health, and safety standards
Train and develop colleagues in machinery operation, fault finding, and maintenance techniques
Mentor apprentices and support their development
Work collaboratively with Production and Engineering teams to achieve operational targets

Requirements

Experience working with moulding machinery
Previous Maintenance Engineering experience within a manufacturing environment
Strong mechanical and electrical fault-finding skills
Ability to diagnose faults down to component level
Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance
Knowledge of production machinery setup and optimisation
PLC fault-finding experience

Desirable

Experience of moulding processes and process optimisation
Understanding of mould and tooling change procedures
Time-served Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G, NVQ, SVQ, or equivalent)
PLC programming experience
Control panel wiring experience
Previous experience training, coaching, or mentoring colleagues

Benefits

Overtime available with enhanced rates
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Bonus
Death in Service benefit
Long-term career development opportunities
Supportive engineering and production environment

If you are an experience Maintenance Engineer ready for a new challenge, we would love to hear from you.

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If you are interested in this position please click ‘apply’.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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