Posted: 17 June
The role
Job Description
£53,000 + Shift Allowance + Excellent Benefits
3 on / 3 off | Rotating Days & Nights | 6am6pm / 6pm6am
A well-established packaging manufacturing site is looking to strengthen its engineering team with the addition of a Multi-Skilled Engineering Technician at its highly automated production facility
This is an excellent opportunity to join a large-scale manufacturing operation where engineering reliability and fast response times are critical to maintaining production performance and customer service levels.
The successful candidate will be a strong electrically biased engineer with experience working within fast-paced FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process environments.
The Role
Working as part of a busy engineering function, you will be responsible for maintaining, fault finding, repairing, and improving a range of automated production and packaging machinery across the site.
Youll play a key role in reducing downtime, improving machine performance, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Attending machinery breakdowns and carrying out effective fault finding
- Completing planned preventative maintenance activities
- Diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults on automated equipment
- Supporting continuous improvement and engineering projects
- Assisting with machinery upgrades, installations, and commissioning
- Working closely with production teams to maximise equipment reliability
- Ensuring all engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently
- Maintaining maintenance records and engineering documentation
What Were Looking For
We are keen to speak with engineers who have strong electrical maintenance experience gained within a fast-moving manufacturing or FMCG environment.
Ideal Background
- Time-served Multi-Skilled Engineer / Maintenance Engineer / Shift Engineer
- Strong electrical fault-finding skills
- Previous experience within FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process industries
- Apprentice trained, NVQ, City & Guilds, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification
- Experience working with automated production or packaging machinery
- Ability to fault find on PLC-controlled equipment
- Siemens S7 PLC experience would be highly advantageous
- Knowledge of drives, sensors, relays, motors, pumps, valves, conveyors, and control systems
- Comfortable working within a fast-paced production environment
- Good communication and problem-solving abilities
Benefits
- Salary circa £53,000
- 3 on / 3 off shift pattern offering excellent work-life balance
- Company pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Ongoing training and development
- Long-term career progression opportunities
- Stable and growing manufacturing business
- Supportive engineering team and modern production environment
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