Full-time

Maintenance Engineer

Posted by The Recruitment Group • Pontefract, England, United Kingdom

📍 Pontefract, England 🕒 January 30, 2026

About the Role

We're looking for a Maintenance Engineer to support a busy production environment where reliability, pace, and problem-solving really matter. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on keeping equipment running, reducing downtime, and supporting production teams through a mix of planned maintenance, fault-finding, and reactive repairs. You'll be working with a wide range of machinery and systems, so no two shifts look the same.

Hours: 37.5 hours Mon - Fri rotating 6am - 2pm / 2pm - 10pm

What you'll be doing as the Maintenance Engineer:
. Carrying out preventative maintenance and routine equipment checks
. Responding quickly to breakdowns and diagnosing faults under pressure
. Adjusting machines, completing size changes, and supporting line set-ups
. Maintaining and calibrating equipment to meet safety and quality standards
. Recording maintenance activity, PPMs, and shift reports accurately
. Working closely with operations to improve per...

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