Night Shift Maintenance Engineer in Wickford, East Of England

Mechanical Maintenance Engineer – Permanent Nights
Commutable: Basildon, South Ockendon, Rainham, Wickford
10:00pm – 6:00am | Monday–Friday (flexibility available)

Salary- up to £54,000 a year 

My client is seeking a proactive, hands-on Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join our permanent night-shift engineering team at our large-scale manufacturing facility in Essex. This is a newly created role to support increased site coverage as part of ongoing investment and growth. Working within highly automated manufacturing environment, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance across production plant and site services. You’ll play a key role in reducing downtime, improving Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), and supporting continuous improvement across complex, high-speed production lines. This is a multi-skilled role with a strong mechanical bias. As the only engineer on nights at times, you’ll need basic electrical fault-finding capability alongside strong mechanical expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Carry out planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance on production plant and associated services

  • Must be Ideally apprentice trained with relevant engineering qualifications

  • Strong mechanical skills- hydraulicsc, pnematics, changing belts, bearings, chains 

  • Assist with machinery installations and upgrades alongside project teams

  • Work collaboratively within a multi-skilled night-shift engineering team

  • Comfortable working independently on nights

Benefits:

• Profit-related bonus

• Pension & life assurance

• Extensive overtime available with enhanced rates

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays

• Excellent training and development opportunities

• Modern, open-plan manufacturing environment

• On-site parking

If you are interested in the role, please apply or contact Eyleesha at Pioneer Selection

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