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Posted 1 week ago
Mechanical Maintenance Engineer (nights) (Permanent)
Platform Recruitment
📍 Mildenhall, Suffolk
💷 £50,000Full-time
Job description
Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer Location: Type: Full-time, Permanent
My client, a specialist manufacturing company based in Mildenhall, is looking for a Senior Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join their maintenance team. This role is responsible for maintaining production machinery, equipment, and facilities across multiple local sites, ensuring operations run efficiently and safely.
The successful candidate will play a key role in diagnosing faults, carrying out mechanical repairs, and supporting ongoing improvements to equipment reliability and maintenance processes.
Maintain and repair production machinery and ancillary equipment
Diagnose mechanical faults and carry out breakdown repairs
Strip down machinery to replace worn or damaged components (e.g. bearings, conveyor belts)
Support external service engineers and contractors during site visits
Maintain facilities across multiple local sites
Record and track maintenance activities using maintenance management software
Provide general maintenance support across the wider business when required
5–10 years’ experience in a mechanical maintenance role within a production or manufacturing environment
~ Strong mechanical aptitude with experience dismantling and repairing machinery
~ Experience using general workshop machinery and tools
~ Welding and fabrication skills
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