Mechanical Fitter - Elevation Recruitment Group : Job Details

Elevation Recruitment’s Skilled Shop Floor Division has been exclusively retained to manage a recruitment campaign for our prestigious client, Spooner Industries, based in Ilkley, Leeds.

Spooner Industries Limited specialise in providing tailored solutions to process industries. They are experts in the use of forced convection technology.

Spooner Industries engineer dryers, ovens, coolers, oxidisers and are environmental solutions across a wide range of industries including paper, converting, metals and food.

Developed in the 1930s by William Spooner, Spooner’s technology has been utilised in all our industrial equipment for many decades. Starting in the textile drying industry Spooner now manufactures efficient process equipment across a wide range of sectors. 

From the bread, we eat to the teabag in our morning drink and the packaging it came in, to the washing machine spinning our clothes and the clean air we breathe, Spooner equipment enhances everyday lives.

With over 160 employees Spooner design, manufacture, commission and install equipment all over the world. They are proud to be a British manufacturing company with a long history of developing excellent processing equipment. Working with some of the biggest names across the various sectors, Spooner has become well-established within the process industry.

The Role: Mechanical Assembly Fitter

Hourly rate: £15.60 - £16.81

Shifts: Early shift (Monday - Friday 6am- 2.15pm) / Late shift (Monday - Wednesday 2.15pm - 12.30am, Thursday 2.15pm- 12am, Friday's off)

Overview: The successful candidate will be responsible for assembling machinery and components from detailed engineering drawings, ensuring quality standards and tolerances are met throughout the process.

The role involves working with various tools and equipment, including hand drills, grinders, air tools, and overhead cranes, while following strict health and safety procedures. Ideal applicants will hold a Level 3 qualification in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent) or have at least five years’ experience in a similar role.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• To determine the parts required for the assembly operation
• To perform general inspection of the parts picked, to ensure they are the correct to the bill of materials
• and in good condition
• To assembly the items required following the instructions on the engineering drawing, ranging from
• building machine sections to small components.
• To assembly pipe work, this includes pneumatic pipework and general pipework.
• To safely use hand tools as required for the assembly e.g., hand drill, mag-drill, grinder, air tools, stud gun
• To quality check completed assembly to ensure dimensional tolerances are satisfied.
• To ensure work performed meets the production timescales.
• To safely move parts, using the appropriate lifting tools and operating the overhead crane.
• To adhere to the company safe systems of work and appropriate standard operating processes.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Engineering Fitter Apprenticeship Level 3, Level 3 NVQ Mechanical Engineering Fitting and Assembly or
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a fitter (including apprenticeship).
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings.
• Ability to use hand tools (such as hand drill, mag-drill, grinder, air tools, stud gun).
• Experience moving and turning large assemblies.
• Understanding of H&S policy, procedures and working safely.
• Understanding of quality.
• Understanding of building assemblies and working to tolerances.
• Exposure to working with job cards.
• Exposure to basic MIG welding (desirable).
• Experience working in confined spaces

If you want to discuss the positions in more detail, please call Lauren at Elevation Recruitment Group on . Alternatively you can send your cv directly to for immediate reviewal. Elevation Recruitment Group’s Engineering division work with a vast range of businesses across Yorkshire and Humberside, Lincolnshire and East Midlands regions. For this role and other similar Skilled Shop Floor positions, visit www.elevationrecruitmentgroup.com