Heavy Engineering Maintenance Engineer

Heavy Engineering Maintenance Engineer / Machine Tool Engineer

Location: Halesowen, West Midlands
Salary: £14.85 per hour + Shift Allowance
Hours: 40 hours per week (37.5 hours + 2.5 hours overtime)
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About the Role

We are recruiting for an experienced Heavy Engineering Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established manufacturing business specialising in open die forgings and heavy engineering.

This is not a high-volume production environment. We are looking for an engineer with experience working on large, older machine tools within industries such as heavy foundries, steelworks, forging, boring and milling, heavy machining or similar heavy industrial manufacturing.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining, fault-finding and repairing heavy engineering machinery, ensuring production equipment remains safe, reliable and operational.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive breakdown repairs.
• Fault-find and repair mechanical and basic electrical faults on heavy industrial machinery.
• Maintain and repair large machine tools, boring and milling machines and associated production equipment.
• Install, service and commission machinery where required.
• Read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Complete maintenance records using the CMMS system.
• Work closely with production teams to minimise downtime.
• Promote high standards of health and safety at all times.

About You

To be successful, you'll ideally have experience working within:

• Heavy engineering
• Open die forging
• Foundries
• Steelworks
• Heavy machining
• Boring and milling environments
• Heavy industrial manufacturing

You'll also have:

• A time-served engineering apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3/BTEC (or equivalent)
• Strong mechanical fault-finding and breakdown maintenance experience
• Experience maintaining older machine tools and heavy industrial equipment
• The ability to work independently and as part of a maintenance team
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a practical approach

Desirable

• Welding and fabrication experience
• Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge
• Overhead crane or forklift experience
• Experience using CMMS maintenance systems

What's on Offer

• Permanent, full-time position
• Competitive hourly rate plus shift allowance
• Regular overtime
• Stable employment with a long-established heavy engineering business
• Opportunity to work on specialist heavy industrial machinery
• Supportive maintenance team and long-term career prospects

If you have a background in heavy engineering maintenance, machine tool maintenance, foundries, forging, steelworks, or large industrial machinery, we'd love to hear from you.