Area Engineer

Our client is currently recruiting an Area Engineer who will be responsible for improving the reliability, performance, and throughput of all equipment within their assigned production area.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical owner for the assigned production area ensuring equipment delivers required uptime, throughput rate, and quality performance.
• Lead root cause investigations for repeat or high-impact failures—using methodologies such as RCA, 5-Why, Fishbone, and FMEA—driving corrective actions and engineering solutions.

• Review and optimise preventive and predictive maintenance routines, ensuring tasks are value-added and based on criticality or failure modes.
• Reduce maintenance-driven downtime by improving planned work quality, scope, documentation, and sequencing with production.
• Work with maintenance execution teams to ensure precision maintenance standards are consistently applied.

• Provide engineering expertise for both maintenance and production teams, answering technical questions related to machinery, controls, sensors, drives, and mechanical/electrical systems.

• Collaborate with Maintenance Supervisors, Planners, and Technicians to ensure engineering solutions are practical, safe, and maintainable.
• Provide engineering support and oversight for contractor activities within the area, ensuring technical quality and safe execution.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree in Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering (Essential)
• Experience in a heavy industrial or continuous process environment
• Strong knowledge of reliability engineering practices, failure modes, and equipment lifecycle management.
• Ability to interpret mechanical and electrical drawings, OEM manuals, and engineering specifications.
• Experience with CMMS systems (Maximo preferred) and use of data for decision-making.

• Project management experience.

• Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.
• Data-driven mindset with a passion for reliability and performance.

Dayshift Role – Onsite Monday to Friday

40 hours.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a successful and established business. If you are interested, please upload your CV and click apply.

Brightwork Ltd offers the services of an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Brightwork (part of the Staffline Group), do not charge any recruitment or job-seeking fees at any stage of the hiring process.

Brightwork Ltd offers the services of an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. Brightwork (part of the Staffline Group), do not charge any recruitment or job-seeking fees at any stage of the hiring process.