Mechanical Maintenance Technician

If you're a Mechanical Maintenance Technician who likes proper mechanical engineering, this is probably going to be more your thing. Big machinery. Real breakdowns. Problems that need diagnosing, not just another part swapping out because that's what happened last time. You'll be working in a heavy manufacturing environment where, when something stops, people need you to know what you're looking at. And that's the attraction As Mechanical Maintenance Technician, you'll get to use the skills you spent years learning. You'll strip machinery down, read engineering drawings, work through hydraulic and pneumatic systems, repair, rebuild, fit, weld and machine when needed. Sometimes you'll know exactly what the problem is. Sometimes you won't. Those are probably the jobs you'll enjoy most. Because you're the Mechanical Maintenance Technician who wants to understand why something failed, particularly if it keeps happening. There's planned preventative maintenance, of course, but this isn't a role where you'll spend every shift ticking your way through a maintenance sheet. Production relies on the machinery around you. When something goes wrong, you'll diagnose it, get it safely running again and, where you can, stop the same problem coming back. You'll be rewarded with a salary of GBP37,000-GBP40,000, plus shift allowance. You'll work 12-hour shifts on a 4-on, 4-off pattern - 2 days followed by 2 nights, alongside the wider Maintenance and Operations teams and reporting into the Maintenance Shift Supervisor. For you, safety is second nature. You'll be working around large process equipment and overhead cranes, following LOTOTO and permit-to-work procedures. You'll know getting production moving matters, but never at the expense of doing the job properly. As Mechanical Maintenance Technician, you'll probably be time served, with a Mechanical Engineering apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent. More importantly, you'll already have put that knowledge to use in an industrial or manufacturing environment. Mechanical fitting needs to be one of your strengths. You'll understand hydraulics and pneumatics, be comfortable reading mechanical and hydraulic drawings and have enough electrical knowledge to know where the mechanical problem ends. Experience with welding, machining, lubrication, precision measurement and overhead cranes will all be useful too. There's a CMMS to keep updated, but nobody is hiring you because you're brilliant at filling in a computer system. They're hiring you because when a machine goes down, you can work out what's wrong with it. And because you don't give up when the obvious answer turns out not to be the right one. That's the Mechanical Maintenance Technician they're looking for. So, if you're already a Mechanical Maintenance Technician, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer or Mechanical Fitter and you want a job where your mechanical knowledge genuinely gets used, this one is worth a conversation. Unfortunately Sponsorship is not available for this role. This role is exclusive to Marshall Harmony, you won't be contacted by any third parties. If you'd like more info or want to talk it through, just drop us a message or send your CV to the email above. By submitting my CV, I acknowledge and accept that Marshall Harmony will collect and process my personal information for recruitment purposes and will retain it for a minimum of 24 months in accordance with their Privacy Policy and T&Cs, available at: (url removed)/ (url removed)/terms-conditions/ Before this retention period expires, Marshall Harmony will contact me to ask whether I wish my data to remain on file within their talent pool.