Maintenance Engineer

About the role

Join a busy packaging plant as a key member of the Engineering & Maintenance team. Your focus will be on electrical systems, though mechanical aptitude is also essential. You'll work across both reactive and planned maintenance to keep production running.

What you'll do

• Carry out routine PPMs and rapid response breakdown work to maintain machinery uptime.
• Diagnose faults on PLCs, VSDs, electrical control panels (up to 400?V), and mechanical equipment using root-cause analysis.
• Support electrical installations, process safety circuits, and upgrades aligned with continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Help develop and update risk assessments, SOPs, one-point lessons, and maintenance documentation.
• Work autonomously and collaboratively to eliminate machine setups and breakdowns.

The shift pattern

• You will work on a rotating shift pattern including days and nights with only 14 shifts per month.

About you

• Qualified to at least NVQ Level?3 / City &?Guilds in Electrical Engineering (or Electronic/Electrical bias).
• Solid manufacturing experience-ideally FMCG/food-packaging environments.
• Experienced in PLCs, variable-speed drives, DC Motors and fault diagnosis across electrical and mechanical disciplines.
• Effective communicator with good teamwork skills.

You will receive:

• Competitive salary
• Good opportunities for progression
• Generous Annual Leave
• Medicash
  
  

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