Maintenance Engineer

Sutton In Ashfield, England, United Kingdom

6/20/2025

• Company: Bellway Homes
• Salary: Competitive
• Type: Full Time
• Region: UK - East Midlands
• Town/City: Sutton in Ashfield
• Posted: 20/06/2025
• Listed in: Maintenance Electrician
• Reference: 281144CON
  
  

Job Description

Bellway is a FTSE 250 five-star house builder, which operates 22 trading divisions across England, Scotland and Wales. The company has grown from a family firm, established more than 75 years ago, into a respected national brand, selling over ten thousand homes a year.

As the next step of long term growth and to support our sustainability priorities, Bellway shall be opening a new, highly automated, Timber Frame Manufacturing facility located in Sutton in Ashfield.

This new Division, Bellway Home Space, shall become operational later this year and there is an exciting opportunity to join the initial team at our new state of the art facility. We are currently looking to recruit a Maintenance Engineer to join the Division’s Maintenance team.

At Bellway we recognise that people are the key to our success and our goal is to provide a rewarding and fulfilling career in line with our values of quality, service and trust.

In addition to this we are committed to being a more inclusive employer and invite applications from a variety of backgrounds.

The Role

The Maintenance Engineer will ensure full maintenance cover over all shifts and that breakdowns and planned maintenance are dealt with in a prompt manner to increase OEE.

The processing environment will be through a planned preventive maintenance system. The hours will be a rotating 3-shift pattern, 5 days a week, however, there may be a need to perform weekend overtime to conduct shut down maintenance/repair tasks.

Principal Accountabilities Of The Maintenance Engineer Role Include

Plant Efficiency

Coordination of engineering actions arising from the maintenance planned activities

Maintaining and improving current OEE levels by carrying out the maintenance plan and recording all findings within a Computerised Maintenance Management System

Completion of Project Improvement Actions to continuously improve the plants' uptime

Responding effectively to plant breakdowns

Being part of a multi-skilled team that can cover any type of work, whether electrical/mechanical

Support training for machine operatives

Environmental, Health and Safety

Ensuring to follow agreed safe systems of work and monitor operators' work in a Health and Safety Compliant manner

Establishing environmental compliance and awareness throughout the team

Checking all external contractors work and obtain RAMS in line with agreed EHS Procedures

Carrying out work safely and in the interests of all employees in accordance with the EHS procedures and summarised in the EHS responsibilities matrix

Work by external bodies

Dealing with contractors when necessary and completing contractor inductions

Raising requisitions for supplies within agreed budgets and control systems

Measurables

Increase O.E.E

Improvement action completion to deadlines.

Planned maintenance records maintained within the CMMS

The above list of accountabilities are not exclusive or exhaustive. The post holder will be required to undertake any such duties as may be reasonably expected.

Experience

Experience, Qualifications and Skills

Extensive experience in a manufacturing/production maintenance environment

Preferably have experience of working in a fast moving environment

Be multi-skilled with either

Electrical Bias With Mechanical Skills And Knowledge Including

Working knowledge of PLC controls and instrumentation, and the ability to fault find within a control panel environment

Have the ability to use electrical and electronic test instrumentation for checking circuits, mainly focused on analogue circuits

Must be capable of using variable power supplies to check instrumentation

Possess general industrial electrical experience to include installation techniques

16th Edition Qualification

Or

Mechanical Bias With Electrical Skills And Knowledge, Including

Automation/controls environment oriented towards appreciation and understanding of pneumatic controls and hydraulics

Appreciation of electrical aspects which interface with pneumatic control systems; i.e. pressure sensing devices and proportional air control systems

Possess hands-on skills to include welding and fabrication skills, to be capable of undertaking major mechanical repairs or process improvement.

Qualifications And Training

Completion of a recognised mechanical or electrical apprenticeship is desirable

Skills and Aptitude

Effective communication

A strong, proactive and enthusiastic team player

Capability to be trained to drive a FLT or hold a current FLT Counterbalance or Reach licence

Demonstrate a willingness and positive attitude towards learning including undertaking specific equipment training

Flexible and able to integrate within a continuous improvement culture

Organised and able to cope with multitasking and prioritising in a fast-moving environment

High commitment to our quality systems and quality of our delivered product (to ISO 9000 standards)

Committed to diversity and inclusion

The Role and Working Conditions

Willing to be flexible in respect to day-to-day duties

Plant-based role with possible travel to sites for quality and training purposes

Rotating 3-shift pattern, 5 days a week; however, there may be a need to perform weekend overtime (day shift operation during equipment implementation and production ramp up)

In Return We Can Offer You

Competitive salary

Competitive annual bonus

Contributory pension scheme

25 days holiday, plus bank holidays

Access to discounts and benefits portal

ShareSave Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Life assurance

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Earn and Learn Opportunities

We reserve the right to close this vacancy if a large volume of applications are received.

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