Maintenance Engineer

Every Friday lunchtime, you're finished for the week. No nights. No weekends. No 4-on-4-off rota. Just a straight day shift in a modern, clean, well-invested factory — and your Friday afternoons back.

We are looking for a qualified electrical maintenance engineer to join our maintenance team and keep some of the most advanced sheet metal plant in the UK running.

The HR Booth are delighted to be recruiting a Maintenance Engineer on behalf of our client.

About

Based in Fife, the factory is one of the UK's most advanced manufacturers of precision sheet metalwork, electromechanical assemblies and precision machined components. We supply medical, scientific instrumentation, energy, telecoms, automotive and more and hold ISO 9001, ISO 14001.

Our engineering sub contract facility runs with substantial CNC machine tools, including Trumpf CNC fibre laser profiling, SAFAN E-brake press brakes, Manual welding, Gema powder coating, wet spray and Mechanical assembly. It is a genuinely varied estate — you will not be maintaining the same three machines for the next ten years.

The role

You will be responsible for keeping plant and equipment available and running safely. It is a hands-on role split between planned maintenance and reactive breakdown response, with real scope to shape how we do things.

Day to day, you will:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance across CNC, welding, finishing and ancillary plant
• Respond to breakdowns — diagnose electrical and mechanical faults quickly and get production moving again
• Fault-find and repair single-phase and three-phase systems, control panels, drives, motors and sensors
• Fit replacement parts, then test and prove the equipment before handover
• Record all work in our maintenance system and use the data to improve PPM schedules
• Support the installation and commissioning of new plant
• Manage the maintenance stores — spares, consumables and critical-spare holdings
• Liaise with OEMs and specialist contractors, and arrange procurement of parts and services
• Work to safe systems of work, permits and safe isolation procedures, and help us keep improving them
• Work alongside production and engineering colleagues in a professional, approachable way

What we are looking for

• Time-served electrical apprenticeship, or SVQ/NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• City & Guilds 2382 (BS 7671 Wiring Regulations) — 18th Edition, or 17th Edition with willingness to update to the current version at our cost
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with single-phase and three-phase systems: installation, fault-finding, testing and safe isolation
• Experience maintaining production machinery in a manufacturing or engineering environment
• Sound working knowledge of the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and safe systems of work
• Right to work in the UK