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Maintenance Engineer

Kingdom PeoplePetersfield, Hampshire🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 4 Aug 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to hone your skills in a world-class manufacturing environment, ensuring peak performance of production equipment with a global leader. You'll thrive here if you enjoy hands-on problem-solving and preventative maintenance, and you'll benefit from the flexibility of a hybrid work mode. Apply now to contribute to a highly skilled engineering team and advance your career!

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Are you an experienced Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer looking for your next opportunity within a world-class manufacturing environment?

Do you enjoy fault finding, preventative maintenance and keeping production equipment running at peak performance?

We're supporting a global manufacturing business who are looking to recruit four Production Maintenance Technicians to join their Engineering team.

Current Opportunities

  • 1 x Permanent Day Shift
  • 1 x Permanent Night Shift
  • 1 x 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Day Shift
  • 1 x 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Night Shift

Whether you're looking for a permanent position or a fixed-term opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

What's the role all about?

As a Production Maintenance Technician, you'll play a vital role in maintaining, repairing and improving production equipment to maximise uptime, reliability and manufacturing performance.

Working within a highly skilled Engineering team, you'll carry out preventative maintenance, respond to breakdowns and support continuous improvement initiatives across a modern manufacturing facility.

This is a hands-on engineering role where no two days are the same.

Key responsibilities

  • Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across production equipment
  • Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns using systematic fault-finding techniques
  • Diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical faults
  • Support production changeovers and equipment set-ups
  • Improve machine reliability and minimise downtime
  • Work closely with Production, Quality and Engineering teams
  • Maintain accurate maintenance records using the CMMS system
  • Support equipment upgrades and engineering projects
  • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement
  • Promote safe working practices and comply with Health & Safety legislation
  • Ensure engineering work is completed to GMP and company quality standards

What you'll need

To succeed in this role, you'll bring:

  • Engineering Apprenticeship or Level 3 Engineering qualification (NVQ/BTEC or equivalent)
  • Previous experience within a manufacturing or production environment
  • Mechanical and/or electrical maintenance experience
  • Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills
  • Experience carrying out preventative maintenance
  • Excellent problem-solving ability
  • Good communication skills and a collaborative approach

Desirable

  • Multi-skilled engineering experience
  • PLC fault-finding experience
  • Welding or fabrication experience
  • Experience working with automated production equipment
  • GMP or regulated manufacturing experience
  • Lean Manufacturing or Continuous Improvement knowledge

About you

You're a proactive engineer who enjoys solving technical problems and helping production perform at its best.

You'll be:

  • Hands-on and practical
  • Technically curious
  • Calm under pressure
  • Quality and safety focused
  • A strong team player
  • Committed to continuous improvement

Why join?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global manufacturing business that continues to invest in its people, technology and engineering capability.

Whether you're looking for the security of a permanent role or the flexibility of a 12-month fixed term contract, you'll join a supportive engineering team working with modern production equipment and genuine opportunities to develop your skills.

Interested?

If you're an experienced Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer or Production Maintenance Technician, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today or contact us for a confidential discussion.

Kingdom People are acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.


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