Ready to lead with purpose and precision? Do you want to drive maintenance excellence and empower your team to innovate for good? Are you passionate about creating safer, more efficient operations?
Join us at Essity and help shape the future of mechanical reliability at our Skelmersdale Mill.
About the RoleAs Mechanical Specialist in the days team at Skelmersdale, you’ll lead defined maintenance activities with a focus on mechanical systems. You’ll be accountable for the performance and reliability of machinery through preventative and predictive maintenance strategies. This hands-on role is central to our ambition of zero breakdowns and zero stops, and will contribute to both short-term performance and long-term asset development.
What You Will DoMaintenance Leadership: Manage and plan mechanical work on site, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and legal standards
Technical Support: Coach and support operational colleagues in resolving mechanical issues and improving machine reliability
Performance Management: Own mechanical maintenance KPIs and drive continuous improvement to meet departmental objectives
System Oversight: Manage mechanical work through SAP (CMMS), ensuring accurate planning, execution, and documentation
Contractor Management: Oversee mechanical contractors and uphold high standards of work, including quality audits and commissioning
Team Development: Lead and mentor junior technicians, fostering skill development and capability growth
Workshop Excellence: Maintain workshop standards and ensure permit control and health & safety adherence
Completed a recognised multi-skilled or mechanical engineering apprenticeship, ideally with City & Guilds or NVQ Level 3
Proven mechanical experience in heavy industry, manufacturing, or process environments
Strong troubleshooting skills and experience maintaining complex automated manufacturing systems, including large rotating equipment and hydraulics
Skilled in planning, mentoring, and problem-solving, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines
Experience using SAP for maintenance planning and execution
FMCG experience extremely desirable.
Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
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Application End Date:10 Jun 2026Job Requisition ID:Essity257209Skills Required
- Completed a recognised multi-skilled or mechanical engineering apprenticeship, ideally with City & Guilds or NVQ Level 3
- Proven mechanical experience in heavy industry, manufacturing, or process environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills and experience maintaining complex automated manufacturing systems
- Experience using SAP for maintenance planning and execution
- FMCG experience extremely desirable
What We Do
Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company, breaking barriers to well-being. Our expertise in hygiene and health began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day. Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life. Our leading global brands include TENA, Tork, Actimove, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 36,000 employees. Net sales in 2022 amounted to approximately SEK 156bn (EUR 15bn). The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity
