Job Description
Maintenance Engineer – Food Manufacturing\n📍 Gloucester\n🕒 Double Day Shift (Monday to Friday)\n💷 £46,600\n\nAre you a skilled Maintenance Engineer looking to take the next step in your career within a fast-paced food manufacturing environment? A leading food production business based in Gloucester is looking to strengthen its Engineering Team with a talented and proactive engineer.\n\nAbout the Role:\n\nAs a Maintenance Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of production by maintaining equipment and machinery to a high standard. This is a hands-on role suited to a motivated individual who thrives on solving problems and keeping downtime to an absolute minimum.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n * \n\n Conduct planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance on production equipment.\n\n * \n\n Diagnose mechanical and electrical faults and carry out effective repairs.\n\n * \n\n Support continuous improvement initiatives to enhance plant reliability and efficiency.\n\n * \n\n Ensure all maintenance activities are completed in compliance with safety standards and company procedures.\n\n * \n\n Work collaboratively with production and engineering teams to minimise disruption and optimise performance.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For:\n\n * \n\n A time-served engineer with a recognised engineering qualification (NVQ, City & Guilds, HNC, etc.).\n\n * \n\n Strong mechanical and/or electrical maintenance skills (multiskilled preferred).\n\n * \n\n Experience in a manufacturing environment – ideally food, FMCG, or similar.\n\n * \n\n Proactive attitude, with strong fault-finding and problem-solving abilities.\n\n * \n\n Able to work effectively in a team and independently when required