Maintenance Technician

Maintenance Technician - Scunthorpe

Salary: £40,000 - £42,500 (inclusive of shift allowance)
Shifts:
Week 1: Mon-Wed Days (06:00-18:00)
Week 2: Mon-Tue Nights (18:00-06:00), Wed Off, Thu-Fri Days (06:00-18:00)
Week 3: Mon-Tue Off, Wed-Fri Nights (18:00-06:00)
Recruiter: Aqumen Recruitment
Contract: Full-Time, Permanent

Join the Engineering Team Driving Real Impact!

Aqumen Recruitment is delighted to be supporting our client, a leading manufacturing organisation in Scunthorpe, as they seek an experienced Maintenance Technician to join their dynamic engineering team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a multiskilled engineer who thrives in a fast-paced production environment and enjoys taking ownership of both planned and reactive maintenance. If you're passionate about keeping machinery running smoothly-and solving problems before they escalate-this role is for you.

Main Purpose of the Role

As a Maintenance Technician, you'll work as part of a high-performing maintenance team, delivering general, routine, and unplanned maintenance across plant machinery, equipment, and facilities. The goal is simple: ensure rapid response, fast rectification, and reliable uptime.

Key Responsibilities

Maintenance & Engineering

Respond quickly to production breakdowns to minimise downtime.

Support production across a variety of injection moulding machines (60-2700 tonnes), performing repairs, diagnostics, and fault-finding.

Maintain, adjust, and set up laser cells, PU cells, assembly systems, and automation equipment.

Carry out planned service work and participate in weekend start-up/shutdown rotations.

Support installation work, site upgrades, and continuous improvement projects.

Conduct mandatory safety checks on allocated machinery.

Health & Safety

Maintain strict adherence to all company and site Health & Safety requirements.

Proactively identify and report potential H&S risks.

Follow environmental protection procedures.

Empowered to stop work immediately if a threat to life, health, or fire safety is identified.

Quality

Work in compliance with IATF quality standards.

Maintain excellent housekeeping during and after all tasks.

Identify and communicate needs for spare parts.

What We're Looking For

Essential Qualifications & Experience

City & Guilds 214 Mechanical Engineering, HNC/ONC, or NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).

Time-served apprenticeship in manufacturing/production engineering.

Strong mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical knowledge.

Ability to read diagrams, drawings, and technical documentation.

Experience working safely within an engineering environment.

Solid fault-finding and problem-solving capability.

Desirable

18th Edition Electrical Installations

Overhead crane licence

Experience with automation and assembly equipment

Knowledge of CI/Lean Engineering techniques

Familiarity with 6- and 3-axis robotics

Experience with plastic injection moulding machinery

Behaviours

Motivated and proactive, with a strong desire for self-development.

Able to operate effectively under pressure and meet tight timeframes.

Confident working independently or collaboratively as part of a team.

Why Join Our Client?

Competitive salary including shift allowance

Opportunity to work with advanced machinery and automation

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