Days Maintenance Engineer

Role: Maintenance Engineer
Location: Chard

Shift: Days (M-F)

Salary : Circa £40,000

Are you an experienced Maintenance Engineer in the local area looking for a days based role?

Yolk Recruitment is working with a market leading company in the manufacturing industry who are looking to hire a Maintenance Engineer to join their existing team in Chard. As one of the largest manufacturers in this area, they take pride in their company which enables the business to succeed. This market leading company has multiple sites in the UK and has close partnerships with several local manufacturers.

Given the durability and great success they have experienced, this presents an exciting opportunity to join the company and you will have the opportunity to add experience to a very successful team.

This is what you'll be doing

In the role of a Maintenance Engineer, you will be working Monday-Friday and reporting to the Engineering Manager.

The successful candidate will be responsible for covering both proactive and reactive maintenance routines on both facilities and production equipment in a timely manner adhering to all Health and safety requirements. The Maintenance Engineer role will also offer opportunity to work as part of a team to complete in house projects.

The experience you'll bring to the team

• Provide mechanical and basic Electrical support and knowledge on all extrusion lines within the plant
• Equipment testing, fault finding and repair
• To ensure maximum machine available time at least cost, through effective planned preventative maintenance schedules.
• Together with other plant engineers and team leaders, actively strive to ensure that your time is orientated towards achieving machine maintenance hours on planned work
• Ensure compliance and work in a safe manner with H&S in mind at all times
• Play an active role in the planning, controlling and over-seeing his day-to-day routines and inspections.
• Ensure that a Total Quality Approach is implemented across the site

Are you up to the challenge

• A base salary of circa £40,000
• Holiday - 25 days (Plus English Bank & Public holidays)
• Pension
• Life Insurance
• Career opportunities
• Shift Premiums
• Free on-site parking
• Cycle to work scheme

You'll be joining a growing business who is currently experiencing a sustained period of growth, which can offer future progression opportunities.

Are you up to the challenge?

Are you what we're looking for? Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter, Liam Reid on

Please apply with a CV and feel free to include a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role. We also have a referral scheme so if you know of someone who would be great for the role please get in touch.

*Please note, the employer does not offer UK sponsorship for this role. Also, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.