Maintenance Engineer

Are you a hands‑on Maintenance Engineer looking for a stable, varied role where your skills genuinely make a difference? Do you enjoy fault‑finding, maintaining, and improving equipment in a manufacturing environment while being supported to grow your career?

We are looking for a Maintenance Engineer to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our site facilities and production equipment. This is a practical, site‑based role suited to engineers who enjoy working across multiple disciplines and taking pride in keeping systems running at their best.

Salary: £37,000 – £42,000 per annum + excellent benefits

This role is a full time, permanent opportunity with a Monday to Friday working pattern based onsite at our facility in Crowborough, East Sussex.

About the Opportunity:

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will play a key role in delivering planned and reactive maintenance, supporting site services, and contributing to continuous improvement activities. You will work closely with colleagues across engineering, operations, and Health & Safety to ensure the site operates safely and effectively.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering planned and reactive maintenance in line with the site maintenance and TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) programme
• Carrying out TPM activities on production and operational equipment
• Providing practical engineering support to site services and improvement projects
• Participating in the Out‑of‑Hours (OOH) Support Team, including site security duties when required
• Supporting external contractors on site and ensuring work is completed safely and effectively
• Assisting with site support tasks, including safe manual handling and equipment movement (forklift use where applicable)
• Supporting Health & Safety initiatives, including contributing to risk assessments
• Providing operational support and cover for the Site Services Manager when required

About your Talent:

We welcome applications from engineers with a variety of backgrounds and

career pathways who can demonstrate strong hands‑on experience.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Practical engineering experience across mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems in automatic or semi‑automatic environments
• Confident and safe user of standard engineering tools and equipment
• Experience working in a preventative maintenance or TPM‑focused setting
• Able to work independently while collaborating effectively as part of a team
• Willing to undertake a physically active, hands‑on engineering role

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Background in manufacturing or clean‑room environments
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and wiring diagrams
• Exposure to gas analysis or analytical instrumentation technologies
• Experience working within a Lean, Continuous Improvement, or CI‑focused organisation
• Strong fault‑finding and structured problem‑solving skills
• A methodical approach with a high level of attention to detail

Education / Qualifications:

• HNC (or equivalent) in an engineering or manufacturing discipline, or equivalent practical experience in a maintenance engineering role.

Career Development & Progression

This role offers genuine opportunities for career growth and progression. You’ll have access to regular performance reviews, development planning, and on‑the‑job learning.

If you’re looking for a role where you can apply your skills, develop professionally, and build a long‑term career in a supportive, safety‑focused environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Interview process:

• A friendly initial call with our Talent Acquisition team to talk through your application
• An onsite interview where you’ll have a site tour, answer some competency-based questions and meet key employees.

Location: Crowborough, East Sussex, UK

Job Type: Full Time, permanent, 38 hours per week Mon to Fri.

Salary range: £35,000- £42,000 per annum

Servomex considers several factors when determining base salary offers such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Benefits:

• Discretionary Company Bonus
• Opportunities for growth & development through our structured Talent Management System
• Annual Performance Review
• Personal Pension Plan (up to 10.5% employer contribution)
• Employee Wellbeing Programme
• 25 days’ annual leave with option to buy more + Bank Holidays + Company Shutdown Day
• Two Volunteering Days
• Life Assurance (4 x Salary)
• Enhanced Family Friendly benefits & pay
• Staff Referral Scheme and Long Service Awards
• Global Recognition Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Free Parking

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates with a disability may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any such adjustments during the application process. Please note we will also make reasonable adjustments wherever possible to enable employees to complete their roles to the best of their ability.

Hear from our Team:

“I feel fortunate to be part of a company that values its employees’ growth and well-being as much as their contributions. Servomex has been more than a workplace for me—it has been a place of learning, growth, and genuine support.”

Carol Tuscano, Senior V&V Engineer

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