Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Engineer (Days or Night) 

We’re working with a large manufacturing business which operates 24/7 that is actively seeking to add an experienced Mechanical or Multiskilled Engineer to its Manufacturing Engineering Support teams. 

Location: Near St Austell 

Salary: circa £38,000 plus overtime 

Shifts - Sunday, Monday and Tuesday or Wednesday, Thursday, Friday shifts and every other Saturday shift on rotation 42 hours per week average 

18.00hrs - 06.00hrs or 06:00hrs - 18:00hrs with a 1 hour paid break 

The successful candidate will be responsible for day to day running, repairs and maintenance of all production related equipment, including breakdown repairs and continuous improvement project/task work, ordering of spares and general site facility tasks. 

To be successful, we would like you to have: 

• Relevant training or have served an apprenticeship 


• Have experience working as an Industrial Mechanical Shift Engineer within Industrial, Manufacturing or Automation. 


• Any experience in the printing or packaging industry would be beneficial but not essential. 


• Experience with maintenance programmes within a large scale manufacturing environment.


• Electromechanical skills are a definite advantage but not essential 


• Have excellent communication, organisational and team work skills 


• Self-motivation, ability to apply initiative and determination 


• Strong numeracy and literacy skills are essential. 

As you can imagine in such a busy role, we would like you to be able to demonstrate the necessary flexibility, enthusiasm and drive to work within a fast-paced department. 

Specific training will be provided. 

Some machine assets have OEM remote support diagnostics.