Maintenance Engineer

Company: APRIL QUEST LIMITED
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Location: Southampton
Job Description:

A global leader in high quality, safety-critical electro-mechanical products that are sold globally are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join their 24 hour production line.

Info about what the Maintenance Engineer role entails

Exciting electro-mechanical Maintenance Engineer role on a small night shift team, supervising one Technician in a fast paced, high tech manufacturing facility. You will maintain a cutting edge 24 hour production line including pick & place machines, SMT screen printers, ovens, conveyors, automated optical inspection machines, assembly lines, robotics, conveyors & laser marking machines amongst others.

The night shift can be a challenge as there are less people available to help so you will be comfortable with root cause analysis & fault diagnosis / identification. Alongside reactive maintenance & planned maintenance activities you will run small CI projects to improve downtime and machinery performance.

Essential Requirements of the Maintenance Engineer

  • Time served or HNC (or equivalent) qualification in an electrical, mechanical or electro-mechanical engineering discipline. They do a lot of small mechanical adjustments, very little 3 phase electrical maintenance.
  • 2/3 + years experience in a similar role some experience in maintenance environment will be essential
  • Some knowledge of electrical & electronic systems & sensors e.g. PLCs, vision systems, fibre optic sensors, mechanics, pneumatics, robotics and test equipment etc.
  • Good problem solving & decision making is keyyou will be able to fault find and diagnose – main thing is a good track record fault finding and RCA.
  • Experience with RCA making improvements to machines & processes – e.g. RCA methodologies, SMED, 5Whys, fishbone, Ishikawa – predictive and preventative strategy.
  • You will have a proactive mindset always looking for cost savings and improvements

Desirable Requirements of the Maintenance Engineer

  • Experience of robotics, conveyors or hydraulics
  • 18th Edition qualified
  • Experience mentoring / leading apprentices etc – if you don’t have that experience it can be developed with in house management courses, 121s & distance learning opportunities.
  • Lean – proactive approach to eliminate waste, SMED etc environment, the people, the process and the equipment.

Benefits

  • 37 hours per week
  • Night shift start from – finish at 6am, then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10pm start, 6am finish.
  • Overtime at time and a half
  • Significantly enhanced pension scheme
  • 25 days holiday + ability to purchase extra days
  • Company Bonus Scheme
  • Share allocation scheme
  • Health plan, access to 24 hour doctors etc
  • Life Insurance (3 x annual salary and up to 6 x annual salary depending on Ts and Cs)

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Posted: September 25th, 2026