Maintenance Engineer - Food Manufacturing
Location: SouthallSalary: £50,000 - £56,000Hours: Monday to Saturday, 2pm - 10pm
We're looking for a skilled Maintenance Engineer to join one of the UK's leading food manufacturing companies. This business supplies a wide range of high-quality products to both the retail and foodservice sectors and is committed to maintaining excellence across its production operations.
This is a fantastic opportunity to step into a fast-paced, hands-on role where you'll be essential in keeping production moving, minimising downtime, and ensuring machinery runs at peak efficiency.
What You'll Be Doing
1. Delivering effective engineering support to maintain continuous operation of plant and equipment
2. Responding quickly to breakdowns and carrying out fault diagnosis for first-time fixes
3. Maintaining a range of equipment, including conveyor belts, ceiling machines, filling machines, depositors, metal detectors, steam cookers, and mixers
4. Identifying opportunities to improve engineering processes and recommending changes
5. Performing autonomous and preventative maintenance tasks, ensuring all work is fully documented
6. Carrying out scheduled inspections to prevent contamination risks due to equipment damage
7. Working with key machinery such as flow wrappers, gearbo...