Company: Recruitment Revolution
Location: Colchester
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will own and elevate the maintenance function across a fast-scaling manufacturing site. You will shape reliability strategies, implement systems, and drive continuous improvement to support high performance and quality. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth operations and impactful projects from day one. This is a transformative opportunity to build a best-in-class engineering function for a rapidly growing, globally ambitious brand.
Pay / Benefits
- Birthday day off
- PerkBox subscription
- 60% discount on Bulk products
- Pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Medicash healthcare
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a robust Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) programme
- Manage and optimise CMMS to track performance and drive improvements
- Lead and support site-wide engineering projects
- Manage spares inventory to ensure operations continuity
- Coordinate and oversee external contractors
- Support installation of new machinery and processes
- Manage engineering budget in line with forecasts
- Identify and drive process improvements, especially during peak demand
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement preventative solutions
- Ensure compliance with equipment reliability and safety standards
- Communicate effectively across teams to keep projects moving forward
Key requirements
- Proven experience in FMCG or similar manufacturing environment
- Strong working knowledge of CMMS systems (QRmaint or similar)
- Solid background working with manufacturing machinery and equipment
- Ideally degree-qualified in Mechanical Engineering (BEng/MEng)
- Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Highly organised with the ability to lead, prioritise and delegate
- Proactive mindset with a drive to improve, challenge and innovate
- Strong communicator with a collaborative, team-first approach
- collaboration
- proactivity
- organization
- CMMS (QRmaint or similar)
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
- root cause analysis
…
Posted: October 1st, 2026