Mechanical Engineer

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer📍 Dudley | 💰 £36,000 per annum + Overtime

Permanent | Full-Time | Weekly Paid

Join an established steel processing company in Dudley, maintaining heavy industrial presses and production machinery.

🛠️ The RoleWorking alongside an Electrician in a two-person engineering team, you’ll carry out planned maintenance and breakdown repairs to keep production running safely and efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and breakdown repairs
  
  
• Mechanical fault-finding on heavy industrial presses and steel processing machinery
  
  
• Maintenance of hydraulic and pneumatic systems
  
  
• Replacing bearings, seals, chains, belts, gears and mechanical components
  
  
• Dismantling, repairing and reassembling machinery
  
  
• Welding, fabrication, bench fitting and oxy/acetylene cutting
  
  
• Fault diagnosis on gearboxes, drives and material-handling equipment
  
  
• Operating overhead cranes, forklifts and cherry pickers where required
  
  
• Completing maintenance reports and following safe working practices
  
  

✅ Requirements

• NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds in Mechanical Maintenance
  
  
• Time-served apprenticeship preferred
  
  
• Heavy industrial maintenance experience
  
  
• Industrial press or steel processing experience advantageous
  
  
• Slitting/decoiling machinery experience beneficial
  
  

🕒 Shift Pattern40 hours per week | 3-week rotating shift

• Week 1 – Days: Monday–Friday, 6am–2pm
  
  
• Week 2 – Nights: Monday–Thursday, 8pm–6am
  
  
  • Additional £1/hour antisocial allowance
    
    
• Week 3 – Afternoons: Monday–Thursday, 2pm–12am
  
  

💷 Pay Rates

• Basic: £16.08/hour
  
  
• Weekday overtime: £20.01/hour
  
  
• Saturday overtime: £24.12/hour
  
  
• Sunday / Bank Holiday overtime: £32.16/hour
  
  

Excellent overtime opportunities to increase earnings.

🎁 Benefits

• Weekly pay
  
  
• Permanent position
  
  
• 3-month probation period
  
  
• 33 days’ holiday, including fixed shutdown periods
  
  
• Group pension scheme (currently under review)
  
  
• Death-in-service cover after 3 months
  
  
• Simplyhealth cash plan, free after 3 months
  
  

📩 Apply TodayIf you’re a skilled Mechanical Maintenance Engineer with experience in heavy industrial machinery, presses or steel processing, apply now to take the next step in your engineering career.