Workshop Technician / Mechanical

Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer

Location: Burnley
Salary: £36,000
Hours: Full-time

If you’d rather be building, fixing and improving machinery than staring at the same production line every day, this one is worth a look.

We’re looking for an experienced Workshop Technician / Mechanical Engineer to join a specialist engineering team in Burnley, building and maintaining highly automated equipment used within the pipeline and coatings industry.

This is proper hands-on engineering.

You’ll be involved in:

• Mechanical fitting and complete machine builds
• Hydraulics and pneumatics
• Fault finding and refurbishment
• Hydraulic pipework installation
• Testing and commissioning
• Design upgrades and engineering improvements
• Fabrication and welding
• Preventative maintenance
• Reading technical drawings and specifications
• General machining and component modification

You may occasionally support installation or refurbishment work at other UK or overseas locations.

What We’re Looking For

Ideally, you’ll bring:

• Around 5 years’ mechanical engineering experience
• Strong fitting and machine-build experience
• Hydraulic and pneumatic knowledge
• Fabrication and welding experience
• Fault diagnosis and maintenance experience
• General machining skills
• Ability to read engineering drawings
• Basic electrical understanding
• Experience working alongside Design Engineers

You’ll need to be practical, mechanically minded, safety-conscious and happy working independently or as part of a wider engineering team.

Most importantly, we want someone who gets genuine satisfaction from standing back at the end of a build and thinking:

“Yep. I built that.”

Dianne West

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