Maintenance Engineer – Cambridge

Company: Wagstaff Recruitment
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Location: Cambridge
Job Description:

Maintenance Engineer Cambridge

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm + 1 in 3 Week Call Out Rota

£48,000 + Overtime

Our client is a leading food manufacturer that is part of a larger European Group. Due to an up and coming retirement, they are looking for a maintenance engineer, to join their close knit team.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supporting PPM’s and reactive maintenance across all site production & packaging machinery, site services & facilities
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving and repairs
  • New machinery installations, project work
  • PLC – electrical fault finding
  • Worked on conveyors, mixers, baggers, production lines, packaging machinery, elevators, metal detectors, stitchers, labellers, scanners
  • Fixing motors, gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, chains, sprockets, control panels, sensors, safety circuits, pumps, blowers, hydraulics

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Open to either electrical or mechanical biased engineers, but must have electrical fault finding capabilities
  • Must be comfortable working in a small team, flexible to working a call out rota
  • Ideally have completed a time-served-apprenticeship
  • Level 3 qualified or higher in engineering
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding skills
  • Must have previously have worked in fast-paced manufacturing, ideally food / FMCG
  • PLC – electrical fault finding
  • Mechanical fabrication, fitting, and welding skills would be beneficial
  • Must have worked with pneumatics & hydraulics
  • Ideally have a varied career, comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces
  • 17th or 18th Edition
  • Able to work unsupervised

Code: INDENM

Job Tenure: PermanentSalary: £46000 – £48000 per annum + BenefitsLocation: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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Posted: September 7th, 2026