Our client is an established FMCG business producing a range of convenient snacking products for the UK market. They focus on quality, innovation, and creating products that meet modern consumer demand.
Job Role & Key Responsibilities
We are recruiting for a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a fast-paced FMCG food manufacturing environment on a permanent night shift. This is a hands‑on engineering role supporting automated production and packaging lines, ensuring machinery runs safely, efficiently and with minimal downtime. The role would suit a proactive, multi‑skilled engineer with strong fault‑finding ability, a positive attitude towards continuous improvement and experience working within food, FMCG, pharmaceutical, packaging or similar manufacturing environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance across automated production and packaging equipment
- Respond to reactive breakdowns and support production to minimise downtime
- Diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical faults safely and effectively
- Carry out like‑for‑like electrical component replacement and safe isolation
- Support engineering problem‑solving, Root Cause Analysis and continuous improvement activity
- Work across equipment such as multi‑head weighers, flow wrappers, tray sealers, checkweighers, cartoners, metal detectors, case tapers and hot melt glue systems
- Update maintenance procedures and support factory KPIs
- Supervise contractors where required
- Work closely with operations in a busy, hygiene‑focused manufacturing environment
The Ideal Candidate will have
- Multi‑skilled engineering experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong electrical and mechanical fault‑finding skills
- Experience with reactive and planned maintenance
- Good understanding of electrical safety and safe isolation
- Mechanical experience with pneumatics, bearings, chains, belts and gearboxes
- An engineering qualification or apprenticeship
- Good communication skills and a strong team‑focused approach
- Ability to work independently on a permanent night shift
- A reliable, proactive and adaptable attitude
Desirable Skills
- Food, FMCG, pharmaceutical or packaging manufacturing experience
- Basic PLC fault‑finding awareness
- CMMS experience
- GMP/GDP understanding
- Root Cause Analysis experience
- Experience working with automated packing or production machinery
- Exposure to equipment such as multi‑head weighers, checkweighers, metal detectors, tray sealers, flow wrappers, cartoners, box makers, case tapers and hot melt glue systems
Benefits Include
- 25 days holiday
- Only one holiday day deducted per 12-hour shift, offering enhanced time off
- Annual bonus
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Discounted gym membership
- Financial wellbeing support platform
- Formal training and development opportunities
- Networking events and learning lunches
- Strong internal progression opportunities
- Free snacks and breakfast options onsite
- Inclusive and collaborative working culture
- Additional volunteering and wellbeing days
- Opportunity to occasionally rotate onto day shifts for additional support and development
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