The assembly of vehicles and their components depends upon an array of complex processes and needs competent maintenance teams to keep the production machinery and assembly lines operating at peak efficiency. For this reason, manufacturing companies rely heavily on their maintenance division to ensure that deadlines for releases of new models, or large export orders, can be met.

This is a great area for someone who enjoys the challenge of solving problems on the run, and enjoys working with the latest technology such as robotics and automation systems. If you like the idea of repairing breakdowns in the line, meeting deadlines, and obtaining optimum performance from machinery, then a career in Engineering Maintenance could well suit you.

This area includes opportunities for Electrical or Electronics Fitters and Maintenance Fitters to enter from other sectors, and likewise the skills you learn on the line can easily be transferred to other industries.