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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
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Posted: 26/02/2025
- £43500
- Skipton, United Kingdom
- Permanent
Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - North Yorkshire
The Maintenance Engineer plays a crucial role in mechanical maintenance, ensuring seamless operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and enhancing the reliability of all equipment. This position is responsible for executing essential preventive and reactive multi-skilled maintenance tasks within a dynamic, GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
Your shifts will rotate on a weekly basis from 6am - 2pm and 2pm - 10pm.
Role Responsibility
The Ideal Candidate
The Maintenance Engineer plays a crucial role in mechanical maintenance, ensuring seamless operations by maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and enhancing the reliability of all equipment. This position is responsible for executing essential preventive and reactive multi-skilled maintenance tasks within a dynamic, GMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
Your shifts will rotate on a weekly basis from 6am - 2pm and 2pm - 10pm.
Role Responsibility
- Implement and oversee a planned maintenance program to enhance equipment reliability and optimize asset performance.
- Collaborate with production and QA teams to execute work orders efficiently, ensuring accurate documentation of asset history following functional failures.
- Minimize unscheduled downtime by responding swiftly and effectively to breakdowns while monitoring post-repair performance to ensure full operational efficiency.
- Lead engineering root cause analysis (RCA) initiatives to prevent recurring issues and enhance system reliability.
- Conduct calibration services to maintain equipment accuracy and compliance.
- Ensure strict adherence to cGMP standards and maintain Health & Safety protocols across the site.
- Drive continuous improvement efforts to enhance equipment safety, efficiency, and changeover processes while reducing downtime.
The Ideal Candidate
- Familiar with working on some of the following production equipment - filling lines, conveyors, packaging lines, autoclaves tablet pressers, granulator, WFI and heat sterilizers etc.
- Experience of working within a regulated process environment (Manufacturing/Production).
- Time served in an industry or a level 3 NVQ in an engineering related subject.
- Proactive approach to work.

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