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Date Added: Sat 28/03/2026

Maintenance Engineer Days

Pontefract, UK
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Company: DS SMITH

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: Competitive salary

Maintenance Engineer (Days)

Featherstone

£55,848.00

This role is days the working hours are 8am - 4pm Monday - Friday

We’re actively recruiting for a Site Maintenance Engineer  with a facilities maintenance background (including management and maintenance of steam boiler & EF Plant equipment) our site in Featherstone.  The focus of this role is to deliver a world-class service in a fast-paced environment to delight our customers and grow our business.  The Engineering function is key to the success and continued improvement of our site operations.

In this role you’ll be responsible for coordinating and conducting all routine preventive and reactive asset maintenance to ensure safe operation and equipment reliability of our facilities equipment to meet production demands/ Safety & facilities compliance. You will ensure work is completed safely according to company and legislative standards, to the required quality and workmanship in the time allotted. Management and maintenance of facilities & service equipment across the factory. To keep everyone safe providing a safe environment and have focus on reducing risk on site. A key communicator across the department regarding services and facility issues & updates. Main responsibilities will be BAU & the efficiency of the services & facilities equipment Ensuring not only the equipment is reliable but up to date with its statutory inspection & maintenance. You are a key decision maker for the services & facilities equipment. Other responsibilities may include assisting maintenance of our Corrugator & conversion machines.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Ensuring all site manufacturing and facilities equipment is fully compliant with respect to technical safety legislation, testing and inspections
  • Corrugator maintenance
  • Ensuring your areas are safe and safety documents are up to date
  • Performance management of the facilities and service equipment
  • Boiler bouse & EF plant house keeping
  • Control of the facilities and services statutory inspection and service tracking system ensuring all reports are filed and up to date. Also that all remedial work is presented and planned in.
  • Delivery of Department improvement projects (Energy)
  • Involvement in energy & waste improvements across the site
  • Tracking, analysing and reporting asset reliability performance and issues to identify maintenance and equipment improvement needs
  • Leading on asset and equipment technical issues, resolution through fault finding and problem solving with the support of manufacturing resources, OEM’s and contract service providers
  • Identification of critical spares, ordering and maintaining inventory to agreed stock levels
  • Supporting capital project plans including site preparation work, equipment installation and commissioning, technical training and planning and scheduling of asset life-cycle plans.
  • Hands on technical support for site improvement initiatives
  • Mentoring and training other in the department

What we would like to see:

  • Fully qualified Mechanical Maintenance Technician, accredited to a minimum NVQ Level 3 or BTEC
  • Experience of PPM Implementation, delivery and control within a maintenance background
  • Knowledge of using Microsoft tools, particularly Excel
  • Knowledge on Steam boilers – Operation and maintenance
  • Willing to learn facilities regulations and compliance
  • EF Plant experience
  • BOAS trained / Steam boiler trained

Benefits  

  • DS Smith pension scheme
  • Death in service life assurance
  • Company sick pay scheme
  • Income protection
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Occupational Health including physiotherapy, and virtual GP service
  • Cycle to work scheme via salary sacrifice
  • Shopping discounts
  • Electric car via salary sacrifice
  • Free eye test and flu vaccines
  • Employee share save scheme
  • Employee recognition scheme
  • Opportunities to progress within the business
  • Free on-site car park parking
  • On site subsidised canteen

We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.”

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