Maintenance Technician ( Full Automation Training )
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Maintenance Technician ( Full Automation Training )
£60,000 ( OTE: £70,000 ) + Overtime + Signing Bonus (£1,500) + Excellent Company Benefits + Company Pension + Training + Progression
Crick (Commutable from: Long Buckby, Daventry, Rugby, Kilsby, West Haddon, Guilsborough, Dunchurch, Southam)
Ex-Forces encouraged to apply
Are you a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician with both electrical and mechanical skills looking to join a blue-chip company offering specialist training, progression opportunities, and premium-rate overtime within a state-of-the-art facility?
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your engineering career with a nationally renowned business, where you will receive ongoing training and work on modern production and automated machinery in a varied maintenance role.
This national organisation is continuing to expand its engineering team due to sustained growth and success. They have an excellent reputation for employee development, staff retention, and internal progression, while offering a comprehensive benefits package.
In this role, you will provide both preventative and reactive maintenance across all aspects of production within a clean and modern manufacturing environment. You will be responsible for diagnosing and repairing both electrical and mechanical faults, ensuring maximum equipment reliability and minimal downtime.
This role would suit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician looking to join a market-leading company that invests heavily in its employees and offers long-term career development.
The Role:
- Reactive & Planned Maintenance
- Electrical & Mechanical Fault Finding
- Excellent Training and Progression
- Shift Pattern - Days / Nights
- Working on Production and Automated Machinery
The Person:
- Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician
- Electrical and Mechanical Maintenance Experience
- Engineering Qualifications
- Looking to Develop Through a Wide Range of Training
- Ex-Forces Candidates Encouraged to Apply
BBBH 268167
To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Tom at Rise Technical Recruitment.
Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.
We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.
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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly names 'Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician' and references both electrical and mechanical competencies, as the advert repeats this pairing throughout its requirements.
📊 Quantify your maintenance impact: e.g. 'Reduced unplanned downtime by 22% across 3 production lines through implementation of a weekly PPM schedule'.
🎯 Highlight any experience with automated or PLC-controlled machinery prominently in your skills section — the advert offers full automation training, so showing existing exposure will differentiate you from other applicants.
🪖 If you have an ex-forces background, call this out clearly in your Personal Statement; the advert explicitly encourages ex-forces candidates to apply, signalling this is valued by the hiring client.
🔧 List your engineering qualifications (e.g. NVQ Level 3, HNC Electrical/Mechanical Engineering) in a dedicated Qualifications section near the top of your CV, as the advert lists 'Engineering Qualifications' as a key requirement for the person specification.
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- •Delivered reactive and planned electrical and mechanical maintenance across 4 production lines, achieving a 95% first-time fix rate and reducing average fault resolution time from 47 to 28 minutes.
- •Introduced a weekly PPM schedule for 12 automated production machines, cutting unplanned downtime by 20% over a 6-month period and saving an estimated £35,000 in lost production costs.
- •Diagnosed and repaired complex PLC-linked electrical faults on automated packaging machinery during night shifts, restoring full production output within 90 minutes and preventing a 6-hour line stoppage.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
As a multi-skilled maintenance technician with hands-on experience in both electrical and mechanical fault finding across production environments, I was immediately drawn to this role at your Daventry facility. The combination of reactive and planned maintenance responsibilities, alongside the structured automation training programme, aligns precisely with the direction I want my engineering career to take.
My background in multi-skilled maintenance includes diagnosing and resolving electrical and mechanical faults on production and automated machinery, implementing PPM schedules that reduced unplanned downtime by 18% across two production lines, and working rotating day and night shifts in a fast-paced manufacturing setting. I hold an NVQ Level 3 in Electrical/Mechanical Engineering and have consistently sought opportunities to broaden my technical skill set.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk me through your process for diagnosing an electrical fault on a production line under time pressure.
- ›Describe a planned preventative maintenance schedule you have implemented or contributed to — what did it cover and how did you measure its effectiveness?
- ›What experience do you have working on automated or PLC-controlled machinery, and how comfortable are you receiving further training in this area?
- ›How do you prioritise reactive maintenance callouts when multiple machines fail simultaneously during a production shift?
- ›What engineering qualifications do you hold, and how have they been applied practically in your maintenance roles to date?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified and resolved a recurring mechanical fault that others had missed — what was your approach?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to work under significant pressure to minimise production downtime. What actions did you take and what was the outcome?
- ›Give an example of when you proactively sought additional training or upskilling to improve your technical capability on the job.
- ›Tell me about a time you worked a challenging shift pattern (days/nights) and how you managed your performance and wellbeing.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to collaborate with production or operations colleagues to solve an engineering problem — how did you communicate and what was the result?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Describe a situation where you had to work under significant pressure to minimise production downtime. What actions did you take and what was the outcome?
Give an example of when you proactively sought additional training or upskilling to improve your technical capability on the job.