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Maintenance Engineer

Nigel Wright GroupNewton Aycliffe, County Durham🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 14 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, United Kingdom
Posted
Yesterday
PLC Programming

Job Description

Company

An established manufacturing business is looking to recruit an experienced Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team. The position will play an important role in improving equipment reliability, reducing downtime and supporting continuous improvement across the operation.

Role

Working closely with Maintenance, Operations and Engineering, you will:

  • Provide hands-on electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault finding and repair.
  • Maintain and programme robotic equipment and create/modify PLC programmes.
  • Improve preventative maintenance schedules and use condition-based monitoring to predict failures.
  • Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Analyse maintenance data to identify recurring faults and implement countermeasures.
  • Support projects, equipment suppliers and the wider maintenance team.

Person

We are looking for someone with:

  • Strong electrical and mechanical maintenance and fault-finding capability.
  • Practical experience of PLC programming and modification.
  • Experience in robotic maintenance and programming.
  • Previous leadership experience and the ability to support/develop other engineers.
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
  • Experience of small-scale engineering/project management.

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