Maintenance Engineer


Company:	Hunter Selection Limited
Salary:	£40,000 to £45,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Halstead, CO6 2NS
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	4 Sept 2026
Closing date:	18 Sept 2026

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Summary

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Halstead, Essex

£40,000-£45,000 + £5k Guaranteed Overtime

Monday-Friday 7am-4pm + 1 in 2 Saturdays (Paid at Overtime)

Benefits:-

Regular Overtime Available

23 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Company Performance Bonus, Private Healthcare

Our client is a leading industrial manufacturer, that values hard work, teamwork and developing people. Part of a UK group supplying into various different industry sectors, they are looking for an experience mechanical biased maintenance engineer to join their maintenance team!

Role & Responsibilities as a maintenance engineer:

Responsible for all planned, reactive maintenance and project overhaul work

Working in a small team of engineers, working extra hours to help out when needed

Repairing production machinery, conveyors, industrial plant equipment, cranes, fleet vehicles

Dealing with repairs on gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, bearings, shafts, motors, valves, hoses

Basic electrical fault finding on 3-phase motors, VFD's, industrial controls

Mechanical fabrication & fitting

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Must be a mechanically biased engineer / plant fitter

Worked in a small team previously where everyone does extra hours to get the job done, helps out on Saturdays - "if one person lets the team down, it lets everyone down"

Team fit really important, get stuck in, work hard mentality

Comfortable working in a dusty, dirty, wet & messy environment

Must have worked in a heavier industrial sector

Basic fabrication & fitting skills would be beneficial

Experience in fixing plant machinery, production & fleet equipment

Hold on mechanical engineering qualifications

Must be able to drive due to site location - no public transport access

If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours please presume you are unsuccessful.

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Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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