Job Title
Multi - Skilled Maintenance Technician
Ref #
53632
Date posted
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Country
United Kingdom
Location
Sheffield
Business area
Sheffield
Department
Sheffield
Position level
5
Working time
Full Time
Contract type
Fixed Term Contract
Duration
24 months
Working pattern
Sheffield Senna
What to Expect
This is an exciting opportunity for a Multi-skilled Maintenance Technician to join our Composites Technology Centre located in Sheffield, on a permanent basis.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering effective and efficient reactive, preventative, and predictive maintenance. 
You will also be responsible for timely reactive maintenance, improvements, installations, inspections, documentation, fault finding and other engineering tasks. Therefore, you will be an experienced fault finder on electrical, mechanical and fluid power systems with an appreciation of the importance of preventative maintenance processes.
What You'll Do
  • Ensure that your activities comply with health, safety and environmental requirements. 
  • Establish and develop successful working relationships with a network of local and international suppliers. You will work with contracting resources and OEM’s to perform a variety of tasks. 
  • You will be supporting Research and Development work on future models by providing support, ideas and bespoke items required to develop new processes. 
  • Monitor and react to feedback from equipment monitoring systems.
  • Complete planned preventative maintenance on a variety of machinery and equipment across the site
  • React promptly to equipment breakdowns, communicate clearly and effectively with group leaders and fault find effectively to resolve the issue
  • Support continuous improvement activities by providing feedback to the maintenance team leader on planned maintenance activities and equipment breakdowns
  • Management/supervision of contractors and issuing of permits to work
  • Effective logging and documentation of reactive and planned maintenance tasks using the CMMS system
  • Support the management of critical spares inventory using the sites CMMS system. 
What You'll Bring
  • Served a full Engineering Apprenticeship and/or qualified to a minimum of NVQ level 3 or equivalent in a relevant
  • Engineering subject (City and Guilds Level 3, SVQ/IVQ)
  • Multi skilled in both electrical and mechanical disciplines
  • Experience of computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
  • Experience working with hydraulic systems
  • Experience in interpreting and fault finding using electrical, mechanical, and fluid power schematic drawings.
Preferred Qualifications and experience
  • HNC, HND in a relevant Engineering discipline
  • Experience in robotic fault finding, operation/recovery and maintenance
  • Experience using Siemens TIA portal to troubleshoot stoppages using PLC logic (Ladder & FBD)
Personal Attributes
  • You will have robust experience in Engineering and Maintenance gained within a manufacturing environment.
  • Ability to work on own initiative but also cohesively within a small professional team.
  • You will have the ability to work methodically and calmly under pressure
  • Effective communication skills.
What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide – ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • Structured career development framework
  • 25 days’ holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
  • Enhanced company pension scheme
  • Discretionary annual bonus award
  • Private medical insurance and health cash plan
  • Life assurance 4x your basic salary
  • Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years’ service
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • Generous parental leave policies including market leading maternity leave
  • Tax efficient nursery scheme benefit
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice
  • Friends and family day
  • Opportunities to experience our fantastic cars
*Qualifying criteria applies
Who Are We?

No restraints. No limitations. We don’t simply push boundaries. We completely rethink them. McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars.

It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. 

McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey. 

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