Maintenance Engineer

Company: Jonathan Lee Recruitment
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Location: Wolverhampton
Job Description:

Overview

In this Maintenance Engineer role, you will keep automated plant equipment, robots and facilities running to support production. You’ll work within a modern, large facility in the Midlands and report to the Maintenance Manager. The role focuses on reliable mechanical and electrical maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvement to prevent downtime. It offers a stable, day-shift pattern with a competitive salary and benefits, in a team-driven environment that values hands-on problem solving.

Pay / Benefits

  • Salary 53–54K
  • 33 Days holiday
  • Private Pension
  • Mon – Fri working with no nights

Responsibilities

  • Electrical and mechanical repair of automated machines
  • Root cause analysis of breakdowns with improvement recommendations
  • Facilitate Preventative Maintenance schedules and propose enhancements
  • Fault finding and servicing of machines and ancillary equipment
  • Support production through reliable maintenance of automated plant equipment and facilities

Key requirements

  • Apprentice trained in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Level 3 equivalent
  • Minimum Level 3 C&G craft qualification or NVQ in a related discipline
  • Ability to service mechanical and electrical equipment
  • Experience with robots and automated plant machinery
  • Fault finding from electrical schematics on 3-phase systems
  • Confident fault-finding PLCs
  • Recent or current experience as a multi-skilled maintenance engineer or similar in automated manufacturing (Tier 1 automotive)
  • Robotics experience
  • Automated plant machinery maintenance
  • Electrical fault finding on 3-phase systems
  • PLC fault finding
  • Electrical and mechanical service of equipment

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Posted: October 1st, 2026