Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Overview

In this role you ensure equipment reliability and minimize downtime in a fast-paced FMCG production environment. You will work within the engineering function to maintain machinery, diagnose faults, and support safe, efficient operations. You’ll lead planned and reactive maintenance, drive root-cause analysis, and contribute to continuous improvement. This is an hands-on, team-focused position that offers development in a manufacturing setting with clear impact on performance and quality.

Pay / Benefits

• company pension scheme
• enhanced annual leave
• life insurance
• employee assistance programme
• Westfield Healthcare scheme
• home/car insurance discounts

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance across production machinery and equipment
• Diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical faults
• Perform planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and respond to breakdowns to minimise downtime
• Investigate recurring faults and implement long-term solutions
• Support machine changeovers, equipment set-ups and CIP activities
• Collaborate with Production, Quality and Engineering teams to maintain performance and service levels
• Maintain maintenance records, breakdown reports and PPM schedules
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to improve reliability, efficiency and performance
• Provide knowledge sharing, training and effective shift handovers
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, quality, environmental and food safety standards

Key requirements

• Level 3 qualification or above in Engineering or a recognised trade discipline
• Proven experience maintaining manufacturing machinery, ideally within FMCG
• Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills
• Experience performing both planned and reactive maintenance
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings and technical documentation
• Experience using computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Strong problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills
• Flexibility to work a rotational shift pattern including days, nights and weekends with overtime as needed
• problem-solving
• communication
• teamwork
• electrical fault-finding
• mechanical fault-finding
• planned and reactive maintenance

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