Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Stockport, England, United Kingdom

5/2/2025

We are currently looking for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

A Little About Us

With over a century of engineering expertise and innovation, KNDS UK is a renowned world leader in rapidly deployable military bridging systems and a key partner in the UK MoD’s Boxer armoured vehicle programme.

We are proud of our heritage and our reputation of providing the highest quality engineering solutions for over 100 years. As a trusted partner to military customers around the world, our employees are the very heart of our company. We have a skilled and experienced workforce dedicated to achieving excellence in all areas of the business from Engineering to Project Management, Business Support to Operations.

About The Role…

As our business evolves, we are looking to strengthen our workforce with talented and motivated individuals across a range of disciplines to work from our Northwest Engineering Centre of Excellence and currently have this opportunity available:

The primary purpose of this role is to support manufacturing maintenance performance, to improve asset and equipment availability and achieve the required level of performance. The role will involve supporting the adherence to the Agility Maintenance schedule to deliver quality daily maintenance and repair plans, to a high standard. This includes carrying out scheduled, planned, reactive and preventative maintenance activities, that support manufacturing equipment OEE.

Key Duties Include, But Are Not Limited To

• The primary purpose of this role is to support manufacturing asset / equipment weekly schedule, to ensure assets and equipment are available to operate, at the required level of performance, when manufacturing require, via the delivery of quality maintenance activities and standards.
• Support the transition from a reactive, to a planned preventative maintenance culture.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Manufacturing CNC equipment and tooling with demonstratable competence in fault diagnostics, maintenance and repair
• In-depth knowledge of PLC, Invertors and Drives, demonstrable competence in fault diagnostics, maintenance and repair
• Supporting the adherence to the Agility Maintenance; (scheduled, planned and reactive maintenance and repair plans), to a high standard, to maintain manufacturing equipment OEE.
• Analysis of failures modes to create preventative maintenance regimes.
• Recording accurate feedback on tasks completed, including spare parts used, time taken, any changes required to the instruction, and ANY safety, reliability or performance concerns
• In the event of a breakdown or critical defect being reported, use fault finding / diagnostic skills and provide leadership / support / technical guidance to carry out prompt reactive investigations.
• Provide feedback on findings in an appropriate and professional manner, report writing and leading problem solving activities to identify root cause and prevent re-occurrence, for issues that affect safety, operational reliability, services or asset performance.
• Work closely with Line Manager to establish mean time between failure techniques and apply cost effective mean time to repair methods to minimise production disruption and downtime impact and support the development / robustness of Maintenance strategy at KNDS.
• Responsible for the delivery of robust reports / data integrity, from asset inspections and maintenance; to detail any identified defects that are unable to be rectified
• Contribute to any PPS reports associated with significant downtime
• This role is expected to be flexible to support the manufacturing production requirements, to deliver the weekly schedule while also maximising production uptime and machinery performance.
• All KNDS factory areas and grounds – the role can be deployed across all aspects of KNDS
• The role must have comprehensive SHE awareness in order to enable them to be aware of and to report any SHE issues that may arise
  
  

What We’re Looking For…

Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Multi skilled (preferably electrical bias) Technician/Engineer - HNC/HND Electrical / Mechanical Engineering
• Recognised H&S training and competence
• Experience in a similar factory / fabrication maintenance environment within a manufacturing maintenance background
• CNC machine maintenance experience advantageous Haas, Matsuura, Unisign, DMG Mori
• Leadership / problem solving skills using common problem solving techniques
• Experience in working in a modern lean manufacturing environment
  
  

What You Can Expect From Us

We signed the Armed Forces Covenant in 2018, achieved their Silver Award in 2020 and Gold Award in 2024 which means that we actively support and encourage service leavers, reservists and cadets to join our team, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process. When you become part of the KNDS UK team, you will enjoy employee benefits such as:

• Competitive salary
• Attractive pension (4% employee contribution, 7% employer contribution)
• Flexible working
• Half day Friday
• Life assurance scheme
• Company sick pay scheme which increases with service
• Free car parking
  
  

If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please apply by clicking the link at the top of the page or email your CV with a cover letter to [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application!

Please note that we have a Preferred Supplier List in place and we will contact agencies directly should the need arise, however any unsolicited CVs received via an agency will be accepted with thanks but without fee.