Background
Location: Sudbury
Salary: Up to £47,500 depending on experience
Day Based Position
Business Area: Nestlé Purina
Benefits
* Potential discretionary annual bonus
* Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestlé
* 25‑day holiday entitlement
* 2 paid volunteering days
* A focus on personal development and growth
Job Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an Electrically biased Site Services Engineer, working as part of a team reporting to our Site Service Manager.
At Nestlé Purina, you will be integral to the team, supporting operations, ensuring all electrical compliance is held, and all electrical activities are completed in accordance with business objectives while ensuring optimum safety, operation and delivery.
Your impact
As a Site Services Engineer, your key objective is to be responsible for ensuring we have optimal cost, highly efficient, quality and sustained generation and distribution of utilities for the factory operation, i.e steam, refrigeration, water and effluent treatment, hygienic air handling and compressed air etc.
Other responsibilities will include:
* Supporting the move from reactive to preventative maintenance by identifying common recurring issues using root cause analysis and creating maintenance improvement plans.
* Coaching and development of the Technician group within the Industrial Services Team.
* Supporting and challenging your colleagues to maintain all company standards.
* Ensuring full support to the department for compliance audits.
* Managing small projects and helping to develop future capex plans.
Your ingredients for success
The person that is successful in this role will be result driven and have the ability to work efficiently, reacting to breakdowns whilst having the curiosity to drive improvements forward aligned with our preventive strategy.
* Minimum apprentice trained or NVQ level 3 or equivalent in Electrical Engineering, ideally dual skilled.
* Experience within an industrial environment previously is essential or you must demonstrate strong knowledge of steam, refrigeration, water and effluent treatment, hygienic air handling and compressed air.
* Basic electrical fault finding as a minimum is required.
* Manage and prioritise workload in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.
* In‑depth understanding of problem‑solving methodology.
* Ability to influence by having strong inter‑person skills.
* Ability to coach across all levels and work on their own initiative.
What You Need To Know
Advert posting date: 13th March 2026
Advert closing date: 3rd April 2026
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.
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