Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer


Company:	Exchange People Limited
Salary:	£42,000 - £42,000
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Ellesmere Port, CH65 1AE
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	29 Jul 2026
Closing date:	27 Aug 2026

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Summary

Maintenance Engineer required in Ellesmere Port – £42,000 per annum

Join a busy site in Ellesmere Port as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, where you’ll help keep essential processing equipment running safely and efficiently. This is a temporary-to-permanent opportunity with regular Monday to Friday hours, weekly pay and training provided where needed.

Your role will be to maintain, repair and improve a wide range of industrial processing equipment. You’ll work across both planned and reactive maintenance, helping the site reduce downtime and keep production moving.

Equipment includes:

- Conveyors

- Electronic Control Panels

- Power Transmission Equipment (Motors, gearboxes, bearings)

- Vibratory Screeners and Vibratory Feeders

- Air Density Separators

- Eddy Current Separators

- Drying Equipment

- Feed Hoppers

- Automatic Optical Sorting Equipment

Main duties & Responsibilities

- General maintenance duties, both proactive and reactive.

- Complete set work and preventative maintenance routines as required.

- Carry out process improvements works.

- Welding, both stick and MIG.

- Follow Health and Safety & Company procedures and systems.

- Assist other departments with technical support as and when required.

- Ensure all plant repairs are carried out in a safe and timely manner.

- Carry out all shift check sheets as requested

Experience, qualifications, knowledge and skills required:

- Minimum of 5 years’ experience of plant fitting and maintenance.

- Good Multi-skilled knowledge range (Electrical & Mechanical)

- High standard of design and fabrication skills

- Must have or be willing to receive training to operate Telehandler and MEWP equipment

- Good written and verbal communication skills at all levels.

- Good knowledge of industrial processing equipment

- Strong understanding of Engineering drawings and able to fabricate from such

- Work using own initiative and work as part of a team.

- Be fully flexible to work with production to ensure site efficiencies are maintained.

Hours of Work:

Monday to Friday working 8am until 4.30pm

The rate of pay is £42,000 per annum, with an increase after completing a successful probationary period

This is a temporary-to-permanent position, offering the chance to build long-term prospects with an established site.

Exchange People are a family-run Employment Business, proudly providing people in North-West England and Central Scotland with careers since 1997.

So why work for Exchange People?

- Wages paid weekly

- Dedicated in-house payroll team to ensure accurate payroll

- 28 days holiday pay, accrued pro-rata

- Pension contributions, for eligible workers

- Out-of-hours contact service

- Team of expert consultants who’ll look after you, before, during and after your placement

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