Maintenance Engineer
Job description
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My client are currently looking to recruit an experienced maintenance engineer to join their site in North Lanarkshire. You will be working with an extremely successful FMCG company, that are going through a continued period of development and investment.
If you are looking for a company where you can develop your engineering skills, work on exciting projects and have the opportunity for career progression, then this could be the role for you!
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Carry out repairs, maintenance work and routine testing to all plant machinery and equipment
- Maintaining an adequate level of workshop spares to meet the production requirements and contributing to stock control requirements for an allocated area
- Completing planned maintenance work orders
- Ensuring all auditable paper work is completed and filed correctly
- Demonstrate a proactive approach to maintenance and assist in the development of preventative maintenance mechanisms
- Understand and support KPI improvements
- Completion of a recognised apprenticeship in electrical or mechanical discipline
- This is an electrical biased role, therefore experience with PLCs and automation systems is highly desirable.
- Experience of maintenance engineering gained in the manufacturing sector
- Knowledge of hydraulics and pneumatics would be desirable
Shift pattern:
Early & Late shifts - rotating
Key skills
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Application advice
5 AI-generated recommendations to maximise your chances.
⭐ Lead with your electrical bias at the top of your CV — the advert explicitly states this is an 'electrical biased role', so place PLC and automation experience in your Personal Statement.
📊 Quantify your maintenance impact: e.g. 'Reduced unplanned downtime by 22% through implementation of a preventative maintenance schedule across 8 production lines'.
🎯 Mention your apprenticeship qualification prominently in your Education section — the advert lists 'completion of a recognised apprenticeship' as a required qualification.
🔧 Call out specific PLC brands you have worked with (e.g. Siemens S7, Allen-Bradley) and any SCADA/HMI experience, as these directly address the automation systems requirement.
🏭 Frame your experience explicitly within a manufacturing or FMCG environment — the advert targets sector-specific knowledge, so generic engineering experience should be contextualised with production/plant settings.
Suggested CV bullets
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- •Delivered planned preventative maintenance across 10 production lines in an FMCG facility, reducing unplanned downtime by 18% over a 12-month period.
- •Diagnosed and resolved Siemens S7 PLC faults on automated packaging equipment, cutting average fault-to-fix time from 4 hours to 90 minutes.
- •Managed workshop spares inventory for an allocated production zone, maintaining 98% parts availability and reducing emergency procurement spend by £12,000 annually.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Zachary Daniels' Maintenance Engineer vacancy at their North Lanarkshire FMCG client immediately caught my attention. With a recognised electrical apprenticeship and hands-on experience in PLC fault-finding and automation systems, I am well placed to support the site's continued period of investment and development.
My background in electrical-biased maintenance engineering within manufacturing environments has given me a solid grounding in planned preventative maintenance, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and the rigorous auditable paperwork that regulated production sites demand. I have consistently contributed to KPI improvements by taking a proactive approach to identifying recurring faults before they cause unplanned downtime — reducing reactive call-outs by approximately 20% across a 6-line production facility.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk me through how you would diagnose and resolve a PLC fault on a production line with minimal downtime.
- ›What experience do you have with hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and how have you maintained them in a manufacturing environment?
- ›How do you approach building and maintaining a planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedule for plant machinery?
- ›Describe your experience with automation systems — which PLC platforms have you worked with and to what level?
- ›How do you manage workshop spares inventory to ensure production requirements are met without overstocking?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified a recurring equipment fault and implemented a preventative solution to stop it happening again.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to prioritise multiple maintenance tasks during a busy production shift — how did you manage it?
- ›Give an example of when you contributed to improving a KPI on site. What was your specific role and what was the outcome?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to complete detailed auditable paperwork under time pressure. How did you ensure accuracy?
- ›Describe a situation where you worked proactively to prevent a breakdown rather than reacting to one.
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you identified a recurring equipment fault and implemented a preventative solution to stop it happening again.
Describe a situation where you had to prioritise multiple maintenance tasks during a busy production shift — how did you manage it?