Maintenance Engineer

You will play a key role in keeping our butchery, curing and sealing operations running smoothly by ensuring our production and utility equipment is safe, reliable and working efficiently.

What you will be doing

The work: As a key member of our engineering team, you’ll help maintain high equipment availability while supporting our strong food safety and hygiene standards. Working a rotating double day shift pattern and reporting to the Engineering Shift Team Leader, you’ll help minimise production downtime through quick response times and proactive maintenance.

• Engineering & Maintenance: Provide hands-on mechanical and electrical support across our butchery, curing and sealing machinery, including de-rinders, injectors and vacuum sealers.


• Preventative Maintenance: Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) schedules and use root cause analysis to help reduce unplanned downtime.


• Working with Production: Support daily production targets by working closely with the Production, Hygiene and Quality teams during line changeovers and equipment set ups.


• Compliance & Safety: Follow site Health & Safety policies, GMP and HACCP standards at all times, ensuring all work meets hygiene and food safety requirements.


• Continuous Improvement: Keep accurate records within the CMMS and help identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability and overall performance.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for a practical, solutions-focused engineer who enjoys working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and takes pride in maintaining high standards.

• Experience: You’ll have previous experience working as a shift or maintenance engineer within food manufacturing or processing, ideally with exposure to meat or protein production.


• Technical skills: You’ll hold a recognised engineering qualification (Mechanical, Electrical, or Multi-skilled) and have strong fault-finding skills across both processing and packaging equipment.


• Personal qualities: You’ll be a proactive team player with good communication skills, able to stay calm under pressure while maintaining a strong focus on safety and attention to detail.

Why join us

At Danish Crown UK, we offer a great benefits package and a supportive working environment where engineering and operations work closely together. You’ll be joining a collaborative team where your contribution genuinely makes a difference to the success of the site.

We’re committed to helping our people develop and grow, with ongoing training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship programmes that support long-term career progression. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to take ownership, drive improvements, and build your career within a leading global food manufacturer.

About us

Danish Crown UK is a business built on trust, teamwork and ambition. We exist to deliver food that people believe in and we know that takes strong leadership and collaborative cultures.

Our leadership principles guide us. We act for the good of the whole organisation. We hire brilliant people and help them grow. We are ambitious, curious and open to new ideas. We build trust by accepting mistakes as part of development. We believe real leadership is earned through example, not title.

Whoever joins us will help create a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, challenge old ways of working and stretch themselves to achieve more. If that sounds like the environment where you thrive, we would love to hear from you.