Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Birmingham, B35

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Maintenance Engineer and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Maintenance Engineer, you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Bonus
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

Primary Responsibilities

• Maintenance of all electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems on all machinery, robotics, lasers, ancillary, material handling equipment to maintain efficiency.
• Assist in implementing and maintaining proactive maintenance systems for PPM and TPM.
• Route cause analysis to identify issues and provide 1st time fixes to reduce downtime. Fault finding and repair on electrical issues and mechanical faults on hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Effective and timely response to all breakdowns.
• Adhere to all company HSE policies and procedures at all times
• Comply with LOTO procedures at all times
• Recommend improvements to equipment and processes to enhance quality and productivity.
• Perform safety checks on all machines.
• Perform routine preventative maintenance checks on all production equipment and machinery.
• Replace and repair parts on machines such as bearings, filters, wiring, valves, gauges and switches.
• Adjust functional parts of devices and control instruments.
• Replace electrical parts and equipment as required
• Observe and listen to mechanical devices in operation to locate causes of trouble.
• Dismantle machinery to gain access to and remove defective parts.
• Inspect used parts to determine changes in dimensional requirements.
• Repair or replace defective parts
• Lubricate and clean parts as required.
• Start machinery to test their performance.
• Implement Continuous improvement activities to assist cost down at all times.
• Any other projects or tasks assigned to you by management as required
• Shift working and flexibility essential

What experience do I need?

• Must have previous experience working in a high volume, high class, Automotive / Food environment
• Experience in practical mechanical / electrical engineering
• Demonstrate effective time management.
• Experienced in Robotics. specifically, KUKA, Fanuc etc
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels
• Team player- flexible on colleague cover and working outside normal hours.
• Prepared to accommodate emergency call out (within reasonable parameters)
• Understanding of IATF16949/ISO9001 Quality standards

Shift Working

You will be required to work 37 hours per week. The Company is required to operate shifts compatible with customer requirements.  All staff must be prepared to work any shift pattern that may be required to ensure that we provide an excellent service at all times.  Shifts will be based around a 6-2, 2-10 and 10-6 shift rotation or anything deemed necessary to support the business needs as follows. The Company will endeavour to provide reasonable notice of a requirement to work shifts or change shift patterns.