Mechanical Maintenance Engineer

Application Deadline: 26 September 2025

Department: Operations and Maintenance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Birmingham (Saltley)

Description

This role will require you to cover our sites in the West Midlands and Staffordshire area to attend breakdowns and for preventative maintenance. We will provide a company van for travelling.

We will consider applicants who have worked in a concrete plant who do not have fitting experience; training can be provided.

This role is based on 48 hours per week with overtime.

Your base can be Tamworth or Walsall but is commutable from:
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Oldbury, Walsall, Telford, Stafford, Coventry, Stoke-On-Trent, Derby

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for developing a preventative maintenance system and carrying out planned maintenance activities to ensure that our concrete plants operate safely and reliably.
• You will also play a key "hands on" role in the planning and implementation of plant improvements.
• You will need to have the ability to quickly fault find and respond to any unplanned plant shutdowns.
• Assist the area management team in the programming of scheduled maintenance and repair aligned to production requirements and manage the site defect logs.
• Facilitate and coordinate the repair and maintenance of ready mix concrete plants.
• Eliminate preventable plant breakdowns.
• Ensure cost effective and timely ordering and supply of spares and critical equipment.
• Undertake risk assessment and associated paperwork, where required, of the relevant activities to ensure a suitable and effective safe system of work.
• Liaise daily with management and plant operations team to ascertain any repair and maintenance requirement that arise, or need specific prioritisation.
• Provide supervision of others and third parties assisting in the works being carried out.

Some of your work will involve working with production colleagues on the telephone to understand issues and to provide advice, so your ability to communicate effectively is vital.

This is a mobile role and so you will be required to be highly self-motivated and flexible in your approach. You will be provided with a van to travel between sites.

The Group places the highest importance on sustained standards of excellence in all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental management and you will be expected to contribute to the Company’s zero harm culture.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Work autonomously on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Strong communication & interpersonal skills and ability to build positive relationships across all levels of the business
• Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work in high-pressured situations and to tight deadlines
• Effective problem solver with strong analytical skills
• Motivated and Dynamic Self-starter
• Provide flexibility to undertake emergency repairs where and when these arise
• UK Full Driving Licence
• Experienced in a similar industry or construction environment

Job Benefits

• Competitive salary tailored to your experience.
• Company pension scheme and life assurance.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• 1 fully paid volunteer day per year and up to £200 fund-matching for charitable events.
• Employee Assistance Programme for health and wellbeing support.
• Enhanced parental leave and ShareSave scheme participation.
• Discounts on a wide range of products through our employee benefits platform.
• Comprehensive training and career progression opportunities.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Programme and access to employee benefits platform for discounts on various high street shops and brands.
• Company Van for Business use.