Steel Rolling Mill Maintenance Engineer

📍 Smethwick

💷 £35,000+ DOE (Depending on Experience)

🕒 Monday to Friday | 40 Hours Per Week (Days or Nights)

The Best Connection is recruiting an experienced Steel Rolling Mill Maintenance Engineer on behalf of our client in Smethwick.

The Role

You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving rolling mill machinery, ensuring maximum reliability, performance, and safety across the site.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out planned, preventative, and reactive maintenance on rolling mill equipment.
• Diagnose and repair faults on gearboxes, bearings, conveyors, hydraulic systems, rollers, drives, and associated machinery.
• Respond quickly to breakdowns to minimise production downtime.
• Inspect, overhaul, align, and rebuild mechanical equipment.
• Support installations, machinery upgrades, and continuous improvement projects.
• Complete maintenance records and assist with root cause analysis.
• Manage critical spare parts and liaise with suppliers to source replacement components.
• Ensure all work is carried out safely and in line with Health & Safety and LOTO procedures.
• Participate in planned shutdowns and major maintenance projects when required.

What We're Looking For

• Experience maintaining heavy industrial machinery within a steel mill, rolling mill, foundry, metal processing, or similar environment.
• Strong mechanical fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of gearboxes, bearings, shafts, couplings, hydraulics, conveyors, and mechanical drives.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Experience with both planned preventative and breakdown maintenance.
• Mechanical Engineering qualification or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

✅ Competitive salary of £35,000+ DOE

✅ Weekly Pay

✅ Company Pension & Insurance

✅ Accrued Paid Holiday

✅ Excellent Long-Term Career Opportunity

If you're a skilled Mechanical Maintenance Engineer looking for your next challenge within a busy manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today!

The Best Connection is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.