Mechanical Engineer in Dudley
Posted by Pertemps Black Country Perms
£36,000 a year
Dudley · Permanent
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
- 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
- Week 1 – Days: Monday–Friday, 6am–2pm
- Week 2 – Nights: Monday–Thursday, 8pm–6am
- Additional £1/hour antisocial allowance
- Additional £1/hour antisocial allowance
- Week 3 – Afternoons: Monday–Thursday, 2pm–12am
- Basic: £16.08/hour
- Weekday overtime: £20.01/hour
- Saturday overtime: £24.12/hour
- Sunday / Bank Holiday overtime: £32.16/hour
🎁 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
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