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Ready to take the next step in maintenance leadership? This Senior Maintenance Engineer role blends hands-on engineering, shift-based responsibility, and real impact on day-to-day performance in a fast-paced FMCG factory environment. If the idea of improving machine output, reducing downtime, and guiding a team of engineers sounds like your kind of challenge, this is a fantastic opportunity to build a long-term career with strong training and development.

Shift Pattern 4 on 4 off days & nights

What You Will Do:

- Deputise for the Shift Manager and lead the team of shift engineers, keeping engineering performance focused and proactive.

- Drive preventative maintenance and efficient breakdown response to minimise plant downtime and support reliable production.

- Lead technical problem-solving to identify root causes, improve fault diagnosis, and maintain high engineering and safety standards.

- Mentor Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 Maintenance Engineers, as well as apprentices, helping skills and confidence grow on every shift.

- Monitor engineering and operational KPIs, review PMs, and coordinate job inclusion into weekend or daily plans.

- Produce engineering shift reports, manage on-shift engineering activities, and ensure equipment is correctly set up and shut down each cycle.

What You Will Bring:

- Time-served multi-skilled engineering background with at least 5 years post-apprenticeship experience.

- Apprenticeship-trained Level 3 or above in an engineering discipline.

- Strong fault-finding ability and confidence working with process machinery or equivalent equipment.

- Evidence of working safely and maintaining effective systems such as CMMS, with a detail-focused approach to compliance and quality.

- Preferably supervisory or mentoring experience in a similar operational environment, with clear communication skills.

This Senior Maintenance Engineer role sits within the food manufacturing industry and plays a key part in supporting a fully integrated supply chain and high-quality production. The Senior Maintenance Engineer will help deliver consistent output, protect product quality, and uphold rigorous hygiene standards in a regulated environment. Alongside strong engineering practices, the opportunity supports continuous improvement across safety, performance, and teamwork at the site.

Location:

The Senior Maintenance Engineer position is based at the Telford site in Shropshire.

Interested?:

Don't miss out on this Senior Maintenance Engineer opportunity, where leadership, technical progress, and meaningful improvement come together every day. Apply now and take the next step in your engineering career.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.

Quality Technician / Quality Inspector – Manufacturing

Location: Dudley
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Overview:

• Are you an experienced Quality Technician, Quality Inspector, or Quality Control professional looking for a hands-on manufacturing quality role?
• We are recruiting for a Quality Technician to join a well-established manufacturing business in Dudley. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with quality inspection, ISO 9001, and manufacturing quality experience who enjoys working closely with production and engineering teams to improve product quality and reduce waste.

The role:

• As a Quality Technician, you will be responsible for first-off, in-process, and final inspection activities, ensuring products meet specification and customer quality requirements. You will also support process control, non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives across the manufacturing operation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out first-off, in-process, and final inspections
• Perform quality inspections using measurement and inspection equipment
• Verify products against specifications and quality standards
• Monitor defects, scrap, and reject rates
• Raise and manage non-conformance reports (NCRs)
• Support root cause analysis and corrective actions
• Assist with ISO 9001 quality system compliance
• Participate in internal quality audits
• Support continuous improvement and lean manufacturing activities
• Work closely with production, engineering, and technical teams to improve quality performance

What we’re looking for:

We are interested in candidates with experience in quality inspection, quality assurance, or quality control within a manufacturing environment.

You should have:

• Previous experience as a Quality Technician, Quality Inspector, QC Technician, QA Technician, or Inspection Technician
• Experience of manufacturing quality inspection
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems
• Experience using measurement and inspection equipment
• Strong attention to detail
• Good problem-solving skills
• The ability to investigate and challenge quality issues professionally
• Good IT skills, including Excel

Desirable experience

• Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:
• Foundry, metal pressing, ceramics, refractory, engineering, heavy manufacturing, or industrial manufacturing
• Internal ISO 9001 auditing
• SAP
• Lean manufacturing or 5S
• Continuous improvement projects

Why apply?

This role offers the opportunity to be involved in quality inspection, process improvement, ISO 9001 activities, and manufacturing quality projects within a stable engineering and manufacturing environment. You will play a key role in improving product quality, reducing waste, and supporting operational excellence.

If you have experience in quality inspection, quality control, manufacturing quality, ISO 9001, NCR management, or continuous improvement, we would be interested in hearing from you.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.

Production Maintenance Manager
Worcester

Highly competitive salary + excellent executive-level benefits

Yamazaki Mazak is a globally recognised leader in advanced machine tool manufacturing, with a long-standing reputation for engineering excellence, precision and innovation.

Based at their Worcester facility, this is a rare opportunity to step into a newly created leadership role with genuine influence over the future of maintenance and reliability strategy within a world-class manufacturing environment.

This is not a maintenance “support” role, it is a key operational leadership position within the senior production team, shaping how equipment performance, reliability and engineering standards evolve across the site.

The Role

As Production Maintenance Manager, you will take full ownership of the site maintenance function, leading a skilled engineering team and driving a step-change in equipment reliability, uptime and maintenance maturity.

You will be responsible for moving the operation from a predominantly reactive model to a fully planned, data-driven and preventative maintenance culture, aligned to best-in-class manufacturing standards.

Working closely with Production, Engineering and Senior Leadership, you will play a pivotal role in improving plant performance and enabling operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and inspire the maintenance team to deliver high performance, accountability and continuous improvement
• Design, implement and embed a robust preventative and predictive maintenance strategy across all production equipment
• Drive measurable improvements in machine reliability, uptime and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Own maintenance planning systems, ensuring disciplined execution and high-quality engineering standards
• Use maintenance and reliability data to identify failure trends, root causes and long-term corrective actions
• Manage maintenance budgets, spares strategy and external contractor performance
• Lead cross-functional improvement initiatives with Production and Engineering to optimise plant performance
• Establish and sustain a proactive, improvement-led maintenance culture across the site
• Ensure full compliance with safety, quality and engineering standards at all times

About You

We are seeking an experienced engineering or maintenance leader who thrives in complex manufacturing environments and is motivated by driving real operational change.

You will bring:

• Proven experience leading maintenance or engineering teams in a manufacturing or industrial environment
• Strong background in implementing preventative and reliability-focused maintenance strategies
• A track record of improving equipment performance, uptime and plant stability
• Excellent understanding of maintenance KPIs, data analysis and performance improvement
• Strong leadership capability with experience developing and engaging technical teams
• Commercial awareness with the ability to manage budgets and engineering resources effectively
• Confidence operating at senior level and influencing across production, engineering and operations
• A practical, hands-on engineering mindset combined with strategic thinking

Experience within precision engineering, machine tools, automotive, aerospace or other high-spec manufacturing environments would be highly advantageous.

The Opportunity

This is a high-impact leadership role within a globally respected engineering organisation, offering the opportunity to shape maintenance strategy at a site that values quality, precision and continuous improvement.

You can expect:

• Competitive executive-level salary package
• 8% employer pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance (death in service)
• Full sick pay
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Subsidised restaurant
• Free on-site parking
• Long-term career progression within a global manufacturing group

Summary

This is an opportunity for a proven Maintenance  Manager to step into a strategically important role, where you will directly influence plant performance, engineering standards and long-term operational capability.

If you are driven by reliability excellence, structured improvement and leading high-performing engineering teams, we would welcome your application.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.