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Mechanical Engineer - Days

The Sterling Choice
Coventry
2 weeks ago
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If you get a strange sense of satisfaction from fixing things that absolutely shouldn’t have broken in the first place… you’ll fit in here instantly.”

There’s a site — a big, loud, occasionally warm one — where mechanical equipment doesn’t just run; it sulks, shudders, overheats, and occasionally tries to set new personal-best breakdown times.
And that’s why they need you.

We’re not naming the business. Not because it’s a secret. But because putting the name here usually attracts applicants who shouldn’t be trusted with a spanner, let alone an entire production line.
If you’re genuinely good, we’ll tell you who they are later. Promise.

The Role

You’ll be the in-house fabricator/engineer who stops the site haemorrhaging money to contractors. Welding, machining, modifying, repairing — all the fun stuff that keeps equipment alive long enough for Production to break it again.

You’ll create CAD drawings that future engineers may or may not read, machine parts that’ll go into stock (until someone “borrows” them), and jump on breakdowns before they become capital projects.

What You’ll Actually Do

Keep mechanical equipment running without making it your entire personality.

Repair, maintain, fabricate and weld like someone who knows the difference between “temporary fix” and “career-endin...

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