Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer (either bias) – Bridgwater, Somerset
£61,376. Overtime paid at 1.5x basic salary. Shift pattern: 4 on, 4 off, 12‑hour shifts days and nights, 24/7, average of 42 hours per week.
What’s in it for you?
- Manufacturer training
- Career development planning
- Supportive team of engineers and engineering managers
- Life assurance
- Enhanced holiday allowance
- Free online medical support
- Access to employee benefits platform – flexible benefits such as healthcare, dental, car schemes, activities pass, etc.
- State‑of‑the‑art facility with variety of equipment
About the role:
You will be an integral part of the maintenance team, ensuring the factory runs at its highest capacity. You will support both planned and reactive maintenance work across a wide range of state‑of‑the‑art equipment – pallet wrappers, shrink wrappers, conveyors, check weighers, palletizers, packaging machinery, processing systems, specialist food processing machinery, silos, pumps, pipework, and more.
What are your daily tasks as a Multi‑skilled Maintenance Engineer at Refresco Bridgwater?
- Work closely with the Engineering Team Leader to deliver high‑quality engineering service.
- Diagnose and resolve mechanical, electrical, basic control and instrumentation faults rapidly.
- Complete a full range of maintenance activities across your asset base.
- Continuously improve performance to achieve site efficiency and standards.
- Take part in factory improvement projects.
About you:
We are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer with a multi‑skilled engineering background (either biased). You must hold a minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline or be time‑served. Candidates from an FMCG/food background will be highly desirable, but we will consider other backgrounds. Ex‑military applicants are welcome.
- L3 engineering qualification or time‑served
- Multi‑skilled background – either biased
- Confident in proposing new ideas and suggestions
- Accurate, detail‑oriented work
- Experience with processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment
- Skillset: fault finding in panels, sensors, relays, inverters, drives, motors, pumps, pneumatics, and pipework.
- Equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our values; all applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.
