Senior Maintenance & Engineering Lead - Quarry

Position: Senior Maintenance & Engineering Lead - Quarry (Permanent)
Senior Maintenance & Engineering Lead

Quarry & Manufacturing Site – Doncaster

We are recruiting a Senior Maintenance & Site Engineering Lead to join a long-established quarry and manufacturing operation near Doncaster. This is a key succession hire, replacing a highly experienced individual retiring later this year who mostly built the quarry and infrasture so a thorough handover is vital.

This is a hands-on, site-based role for someone who lives and breathes keeping a complex industrial site running, improving, and evolving.

The Role

You will take ownership of day-to-day site engineering and maintenance across a busy quarry and manufacturing facility, working alongside a small, experienced maintenance team and trusted specialist contractors.

Responsibilities include:

* Keeping the quarry, batching plant, and site infrastructure operational

* Mechanical maintenance and fault-finding on heavy plant and equipment

* Oversight of site buildings, services, drains, buried services, and facilities

* Supporting and leading small site improvement and infrastructure projects

* Coordinating contractors for specialist repairs and installations

* Responding to breakdowns when required (very infrequent, but hands-on)

* Maintaining a strong, practical health & safety culture

* Gradual transfer and ownership of critical site knowledge

Plant and equipment includes:

* Large excavators and quarry plant

* Concrete batching plant

* Fork trucks, shunters, telehandlers

* Overhead cranes and yard cranes

* Site infrastructure, extensions, and facilities

There is always a project on – from new extensions and yard cranes to repurposing buildings and installing new equipment. No two days are the same.

About You

This role will suit someone who:

* Is a mechanically biased engineer or fitter by background

* Has worked in quarrying, mining, heavy manufacturing, precast, or similar

* Is comfortable turning their hand to mechanical, basic electrical, and site works

* Is practical, proactive, and solutions-focused

* Leads by example and is happy to muck in when needed

* Has strong health & safety awareness and common-sense site discipline

* Wants a long-term role where they are trusted and valued

This is not a desk role. It suits someone who enjoys variety, ownership, and being the go-to person on site.

Package & Benefits

* Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

* Profit share & annual bonus (typically £3,000 – £4,000+, higher in strong years)

* Car / Van on offer

* Working hours:

8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday to Friday
(Early starts common, breakdown call-outs extremely rare)

* 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

* Pension scheme

* Private healthcare (BUPA)

* Excellent on-site facilities (including genuinely good tea and coffee)

Additional Information

* Site-based role near Doncaster

* Succession position with full handover of site knowledge

If this role sounds like you, Apply Now. Contact Mark at Up Front Recruitment for more details