Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - Dayshift

The rewards and benefits on offer:

• Immediate start available.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible start & finish times

• Collaborative and supportive work environment.

• Dayshift

• Free on-site parking

Working Hours:

• Dayshift

• 08:00 – 16:00 Mon - Fri

MTrec’s New Opportunity:

MTrec Technical are proudly representing our prestigious manufacturing client with the recruitment of a permanent Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to strengthen their team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to build a long-term career within a growing engineering business.

If you are a Maintenance Engineer, ideally with experience in high risk/COMAH environments, apply now for an immediate response!

The job you’ll do:

• Provide technical engineering support to Operations and Maintenance teams, ensuring plant issues are resolved safely, efficiently and effectively.

• Lead and support root cause investigations into equipment failures, identifying and implementing sustainable corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

• Develop, maintain and continuously improve asset life plans for critical plant equipment, identifying repair, replacement and capital investment requirements.

• Provide technical engineering support during shutdowns, outages and major maintenance events

• Develop and review mechanical engineering specifications, repair scopes and technical standards for plant modifications, repairs and capital projects.

• Ensure compliance with statutory inspection requirements and recognised engineering standards for pressure systems, lifting equipment, rotating machinery and other mechanical assets.

• Provide technical input to operational and maintenance processes, including risk assessments, engineering evaluations and problem-solving activities.

• Work closely with Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians to develop effective repair solutions and improve maintenance performance.

• Lead defect elimination and reliability improvement initiatives to increase equipment availability, improve asset performance and reduce lifecycle costs.

• Analyse maintenance and reliability data to identify trends, recurring failures and opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Support the development, implementation and optimisation of preventive and predictive maintenance strategies.

• Contribute to the development and delivery of capital projects, including technical specifications, contractor management, installation and commissioning activities.

• Promote a Right First Time culture, driving high standards of quality, engineering integrity and execution.

• Support contractor management activities, ensuring external providers meet required safety, quality, technical and performance standards.

• Deputise for the Engineering Manager when required, providing technical leadership and supporting effective day-to-day engineering operations.

• Champion company values, process safety principles and safe working practices, maintaining a strong focus on personal and process safety at all times.

About you

Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering or similar.

5 + years' industrial experience in a manufacturing, process or COMAH-regulated environment.

Experience of maintenance and reliability engineering principles.

Knowledge of rotating equipment, static plant, piping systems and mechanical asset management.

Experience leading or supporting root cause investigations and reliability improvement activities.

Understanding of statutory inspection requirements and engineering compliance obligations.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Effective communication and stakeholder management skills