Maintenance Engineer

Apex Appoint

📍 Thurmaston, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Full-time architecture-and-engineering Posted June 16, 2026

Job Description

We are currently supporting a well-established manufacturing business based in Thurmaston, Leicester who are looking to add an electrically biased Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to their engineering team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a stable, well-invested manufacturing site where engineers are trusted to take ownership of maintenance and improvement activities across the plant.

The role operates on a double days shift pattern (6am–2pm / 2pm–10pm) with one week of nights every five weeks. The night shift week consists of four x 8-hour shifts, providing a balanced and manageable rotation.

The Role

You will be responsible for supporting the site through a mixture of reactive maintenance, planned preventative maintenance and continuous improvement activity.

Working closely with production teams, you will play a key role in ensuring machinery uptime and driving reliability across the facility.

Typical responsibilities include: