Night Shift Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

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

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please get in touch with us or apply below.