maintenance engineer

We are looking to appoint a mechanically bias maintenance engineer at our Golborne pallet
production and repair site.
Reporting to the Maintenance supervisor, you will cover all aspects of mechanical equipment
including reactive and planned maintenance inspections, overhauling equipment, monitoring plant
conditions, reporting defects and diagnosing and repairing faults as they occur. You will team up
with our Electrically bias engineer to ensure the site runs smoothly.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Working to a high standard of Health and Safety


• Making improvements across the site to improve production output


• Attending breakdowns


• Some welding and fabrication


• Use of lathe, milling machines


• General factory mechanical maintenance


• Working with industrial automation equipment


• Site PPM's


• Mechanical thermal imaging






• Updating site Maintenance systems Shire systems


• Monitor and control spare parts needed to ensure production up time.


Other jobs outside of this scope of work such as facilities maintenance, FLT maintenance.


• Apprentice trained


• City & Guilds/NVQ level 3/HNC


• Electrical knowledge


• Driving licence


• IT skills Excel/word etc


Skills and Experience:

Experience in:

• Chain conveyors


• Power hydraulics


• Pneumatics controls


• Pneumatic tools


• Bearings


• Couplings


• Gearboxes


• Chain drives


• Site LEV


• Compressors


• Installation


The successful candidates should be time served or equivalent in a Mechanical Engineering
discipline, previous experience within an industrial production environment. You must have the
ability to communicate in English as well as comprehend written instructions.

James Jones & Sons Ltd is a 5th generation family business and one of the UK's largest and most
progressive timber processing companies with core activities in timber harvesting, sawmilling,
pallets & packaging, and distribution. We operate from 25 sites across the UK, 11 Australian and 2
New Zealand sites and employ over 2,100 people. In the UK, we operate seven sawmills throughout
Scotland and the north east of England: an engineered wood manufacturing plant in the north of
Scotland and pallet and packaging operations at 14 sites across the UK. We produce high quality,
British grown timber for the UK construction, landscaping, and agricultural sectors; market-leading
JJI-Joists for the housebuilding and construction markets and pallets and packaging for blue chip
domestic and exporting businesses.

The pallet and packaging operation within the James Jones Group manufactures up to 7 million new
pallets per annum and repairs up to 30 million pallets a year, at 14 sites across the UK. This division
has some of the most advanced pallet manufacturing facilities in the UK, a national distribution
network and offers a complete range of pallets and specialist timber packaging. Our customers
include all the major pallet pools and blue-chip companies including automotive, engineering,
construction, pharmaceutical and retail businesses.


• Weekly paid


• £16.50 p/hr


• 33 days annual leave (including statutory holidays)



• Employer pension contribution


• Health & Wellbeing services (remote GPs, mental health support, physio) after 3 months


• Life assurance cover after 3 months



Applicants must be able to provide eligibility to work in the UK without the need for sponsorship.