Maintenance Engineer

Overview

In this role you will maintain and optimise processing and packaging equipment to ensure safe, smooth, and efficient operations. You will collaborate with operational teams to diagnose faults, complete repairs, and support continuous improvement to deliver reliable performance for customers. You’ll work across electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, and automation domains within a busy food production site. This is a hands-on role at Greencore Nantwich, offering opportunities to grow technical and problem‑solving skills in a fast-moving environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Company share save scheme
• Competitive pension contributions
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Wellbeing Centre platform
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies

Responsibilities

• Prepare and carry out maintenance on food processing and packaging equipment
• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance and prevent downtime
• Respond promptly to breakdowns and carry out corrective actions
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation and pneumatic faults
• Support operational teams with machinery changeovers, set-ups and adjustments
• Manufacture or repair component parts to maintain equipment reliability
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects and technical performance reviews
• Identify and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiency and profitability
• Maintain accurate maintenance and engineering documentation
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available, safe and well maintained

Key requirements

• Level 2 Maths/English and a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship (C&G/EAL NVQ 3/4 or OAL FDEM)
• Ability to complete IET Wiring Regs, Level 2 Food Safety, CMMS and contractor control training in year one
• Multiskilled capability with an electrical bias
• Strong problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills
• Knowledge of SHE procedures
• Experience in fault finding, maintenance planning, IT systems and working to SOPs
• Mechanical/electrical knowledge including hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, PLCs and sensors
• Understanding of asset performance and spare parts management
• Desirable: IOSH Managing Safely, FMCG experience, continuous improvement, condition-based monitoring or reliability techniques

• strong problem-solving
• communication
• teamwork
• multiskilled with electrical bias
• fault finding
• maintenance planning

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