Multi Skilled Engineer

At Valeo Foods UK we bring together a family of much-loved UK food brands supported by the scale and ambition of a global investment partner. From Kettle’s bold crunch to Rowse’s natural sweetness, through to Matthew Walker and Barratt Sweets, our portfolio blends heritage, craft and category-leading innovation.

Alongside our branded portfolio, we are also one of the UK’s largest suppliers of private label products, partnering with major retailers to deliver quality and category expertise that meets the needs of millions of households every week.

As a business, we’re on a journey of transformation. We’re strengthening our operations, driving quality and investing in our people. It’s an exciting, fast-moving environment where heritage meets new thinking, and where every colleague contributes to shaping the future of food across the UK.

Join us and play your part in building the next chapter of some of Britain’s most loved brands.

Position: Multi Skilled Engineer (Electrically biased)

Type: Full-time, Day shifts (2s and 3s) 6am till 6pm 

We are looking for a skilled Multi-Skilled Engineer with a strong electrical bias to join the engineering team at the Rowse Honey manufacturing site.

This role would suit an engineer experienced in maintaining and fault-finding packaging machinery within a manufacturing environment, with the ability to apply both electrical expertise and solid mechanical knowledge. While FMCG experience is not essential, you will be working in a fast-paced FMCG operation, supporting the reliability and continuous improvement of high-speed packaging lines in a food manufacturing setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Bee the Fixer: Conduct regular maintenance and repairs on our buzzing machinery, keeping everything in tip-top shape.
• Bee the Troubleshooter: Diagnose and squash mechanical and electrical issues faster than a bee can flap its wings.
• Bee the Innovator: Assist in the installation of new machines and upgrades, bringing fresh ideas to our hive.
• Bee Safe: Adhere to all health and safety regulations because happy bees are safe bees.
• Bee a Team Player: Work collaboratively to find ways to make our production process as smooth as honey.

Responsibilities will include: 

To work as part of the engineering team to provide effective and efficient mechanical and electrical support throughout the factory. Tasks will involve reactive support in the factory; continuous improvement projects planned though the maintenance system and planned maintenance tasks. The role will be working with a wide range of complex automated cooking processes and packaging equipment.

• Provide a proactive response to maintenance, continuous improvement tasks and reactive breakdowns on site;
• Accurate recording of all work activities;
• Completion of RCAs as required;
• Escalation of any further works required;
• Identification of CI projects for repetitive problems.

• Relevant engineering qualification
• Able to prove competency in all forms of isolation, electrical safety and safe panel entry
• PC Literate (thereby able to use computer-based maintenance systems)
• Flexibility
• Health and Safety driven
• Able to strip machines in full and reassemble them, as well as completing machine size change procedures and their adjustments

What we offer you in return

• 20% shift allowance 
• Excellent Career Opportunities
• Matched pension scheme up to 10%
• Death in service
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retailer discount platform
• Staff discount 
• And plenty more!