Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer
£50,536
Location: North Walsham
Shift: Panama Shift (2 x Weeks Days & 2 Weeks Nights)

Looking for a Maintenance Engineer role with excellent earning potential, paid breaks, job security, and a site that genuinely values engineering?

We're recruiting for a mechanically biased Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established manufacturing site in North Walsham. This is a permanent opportunity within a structured engineering team, supporting modern production equipment and helping maintain high standards of reliability across the site.

You'll be joining a business that continues to invest in its people, equipment, and engineering function. Whether you're an experienced Maintenance Engineer from manufacturing, FMCG, plastics, packaging, or a similar environment, this role offers the chance to work within a professional maintenance team where engineering standards matter.

What's on Offer

• Salary of £50,536
• 1-hour paid break every shift
• Average 42-hour working week
• Panama shift pattern offering regular time off
• 23 days holiday
• 4% employer pension contribution
• Death in service cover
• Ongoing training and development
• Stable, long-term manufacturing environment
• Modern machinery and ongoing site investment
• Well-structured engineering department with clear standards and processes

What You'll Be Doing

• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across production equipment
• Diagnosing and repairing mechanical faults to minimise downtime
• Working with hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• Supporting electrical fault finding and repairs where required
• Maintaining injection moulding machinery and associated equipment
• Identifying recurring faults and contributing to continuous improvement activities
• Completing maintenance records and shift handovers accurately
• Working safely and maintaining high engineering standards at all times

What We're Looking For

• Experience working as a Maintenance Engineer within a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Strong mechanical maintenance background
• Recognised mechanical engineering qualification
• Experience with hydraulics and pneumatics
• Electrical fault-finding experience beneficial but not essential
• Injection moulding experience advantageous but not required
• A proactive, hands-on approach to maintenance
• Comfortable working within a rotating shift pattern

Shift Pattern

Panama Shift (C Shift)

• 2 weeks days / 2 weeks nights
• 6am6pm / 6pm6am rotation
• Average 42 hours per week
• Regular extended periods off throughout the rotation
• 1-hour paid break included within every shift

If you're a Maintenance Engineer looking for strong earnings, paid breaks, long-term stability, and a business that invests in its engineering team, we'd like to hear from you.