Metrology Laboratory Maintenance Engineer - 37176189 (1236)

Join a globally recognised luxury automotive manufacturer renowned for engineering excellence and innovation. As a Metrology Laboratory Maintenance Engineer, you will play a vital role in supporting a world-class laboratory environment that underpins product development, quality assurance, and advanced engineering analysis. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge metrology and scientific equipment, ensuring high standards of safety, reliability, and operational performance within a fast-paced, technically advanced environment.

The Opportunity
We are looking for a proactive and technically capable Metrology Laboratory Maintenance Engineer to support our world-class Metrology Laboratory within Product Engineering. The laboratory plays a critical role in engineering development, prototype build support, root cause analysis, benchmarking, and maximising warranty recovery-helping to make Powertrain a benchmark for quality.

You will be part of a specialist team delivering right-first-time results at pace, while maintaining a safe, compliant, and highly controlled laboratory environment.

Scope of Role

• Maintaining and controlling laboratory environmental conditions, including temperature, humidity, and pressure.
• Supporting and coordinating maintenance activities across a wide range of equipment such like CMM, surface finish, CT/X-Ray equipment, Optical metrology equipment, lifting equipment, extraction and BES activities (specialist equipment will require supplier collaboration)
• Acting as the responsible person for Contract Job Registrations (CJR), including RAMS, and coordinating contractors and suppliers. Raising of SCaRF requests and managing invoices for the contracts.
• Ensuring completion and upkeep of statutory and safety assessments, including PUWER, LEV, EC-PL, COSHH, HAVS, and equipment risk assessments.
• Raising, managing, and controlling purchase orders related to maintenance and equipment support including managing invoices.
• Working closely with Metrology Engineers, facilities teams, and external suppliers to ensure technical requirements are met.

Skills:
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential:

• An indentured apprenticeship or NVQ Level 4 minimum vocational qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or Maintenance Engineering plus relevant technical experience
• Good knowledge of fluid and gas management equipment & control systems
• Experience in facility fault finding & rectification
• Working level knowledge of Microsoft software (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent in English, Maths and Science
• Strong, practical skills with good manual dexterity
• Ability to follow written and spoken instruction and interface well with customers
• Ability to work quickly and pay attention to detail
• Background in quality standards and their importance
• Familiarisation with scientific instruments (eg equipment such like CMM, surface finish, CT/X-Ray equipment, Optical metrology)
• Knowledge of company Health and Safety requirements, Risk Assessment, COSHH and SDS
• A full UK driving licence with less than 6 penalty points, no disqualification and 2 years accident-free record.

Personal Profile
Essential:

• Prepared to undertake further vocational training and development
• A self-starter, keen to get involved and deliver value to the business
• Commitment, flexibility, self-motivation, and a good communicator
• Natural problem solver
• Desire to develop self to learn about scientific instrumentation
• Confident team player who naturally collaborates with others and is able to support a diverse and technically competent group of colleagues

Education:

• An indentured apprenticeship or NVQ Level 4 minimum vocational qualification in Mechanical, Electrical or Maintenance Engineering plus relevant technical experience
• Working level knowledge of Microsoft software (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Functional Skills Level 2 or equivalent in English, Maths and Science.