Engineering Technician

Engineering Technician (Dairy) – Manchester – Permanent contract: 4 on 4 off (2 days & 2 nights, 7‑7)

Overview

Provide safe frontline reactive maintenance, identify root causes, bring equipment back into service quickly, and seek cost‑effective improvements to site assets and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure effective handover of information across shift.
• Use PMS to support prioritisation and problem‑solving (RCFA).
• Diagnose faults and test, repair and maintain mechanical/electrical equipment.
• Observe, recognise and report machinery or component defects or symptoms of impending failure, providing CMMS data.
• Contact OEMs and suppliers for technical support and expedite parts when not available on site.
• Lead shift‑based problem solving where corrective actions aren’t clear.
• Work as ONE TEAM with First Line Response Technician.
• Coach operators with asset‑care tasks.
• Identify and implement improvements.
• Identify life‑cycle issues and raise these with possible recommendations.
• Use and support simple 5WHY OE techniques/RCA techniques through to 100 year fix.
• Use and support departmental 5S programmes for workshops and stores.

Qualifications

• Recognised apprenticeship.
• Experience within maintenance.
• Manufacturing industry experience.
• Mechanical/Electrical bias.
• ONC/HNC.
• IOSH/Nebosh – desirable.
• Electrical qualification.
• Multiskilled engineer experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Generous annual leave allowance (276 hours).
• Access to Müller Rewards Platform.
• Long‑term career with a company that invests in you!
• Career development and defined pathways.
• Onsite car park.
• Supportive team environment.
• Life assurance.
• Pension scheme.
• 5% annual bonus (company target‑dependent).

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