Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer – Food Manufacturing – East Midlands – Day Shifts!
£49,275 + 10% Shift Allowance
Our client is looking to recruit an experienced Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established food manufacturing operation. The role would suit an apprentice-trained Electrical or Mechanical Engineer with strong industrial maintenance experience, ideally within the food manufacturing sector. You will be responsible for planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs and fault-finding across a range of production equipment, helping to maximise plant performance and minimise downtime.
Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across production equipment and systems.
- Diagnose faults, complete repairs and identify root causes to improve equipment reliability and reduce downtime.
- Provide hands‑on engineering support to production teams to maintain efficient plant operations.
- Carry out instrumentation calibration and fault‑finding on electrical and control systems.
- Fault‑find on HMIs, PLCs, DCS and SCADA systems.
- Accurately record maintenance activities, faults, root causes and spare parts usage within the CMMS.
- Review contractor RAMS and ensure all work is completed in line with permits to work, risk assessments and company safe systems of work.
- Ensure all maintenance activities comply with health, safety, environmental and food safety standards.
- Maintain a clean, tidy and safe working environment across engineering facilities.
- Ensure maintenance manuals, diagnostic instructions and specialist tools are available to support the engineering team.
- Monitor equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve repair times, reliability and mean time between failures.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve plant efficiency, reduce waste and minimise environmental impact.
- Work with the wider engineering team to achieve site engineering KPIs and production targets.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you will be an apprentice-trained Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer with an Electrical or Mechanical bias and experience working within an industrial manufacturing environment. Food manufacturing experience, particularly involving hygienic production equipment, is essential.
- Planned preventative and predictive maintenance, alongside reactive breakdown support.
- Instrumentation calibration and maintenance.
- Fault‑finding on HMIs, PLCs, DCS and SCADA systems.
- Using CMMS software to record and manage maintenance activities.
- Working safely within established risk assessments, safe systems of work and permit‑to‑work procedures.
- Supporting production teams to maximise equipment availability and minimise downtime.
Qualifications
- City & Guilds Level 3 or NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering – essential.
- HNC or HND in a relevant engineering discipline – desirable.
- NEBOSH or IOSH health and safety qualification – desirable.
- 17th or 18th Edition Wiring Regulations – desirable.
- CompEx EX01–EX04 and/or EX05–EX06 – desirable.
What you’ll bring
- A proactive, safety‑first approach to engineering and maintenance.
- Strong fault‑finding and problem‑solving skills.
- A commitment to food safety, hygiene and high engineering standards.
- The ability to work independently and as part of a wider engineering team.
- Good communication, record‑keeping and organisational skills.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with a focus on equipment reliability and operational efficiency.
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