Chocolate Factory Shift Engineer: Maintenance & Innovation

Hotel Chocolat; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

50% product discount

70% discount for you and your guests

Job summary

Hotel Chocolat is hiring a Shift Engineer to join our Engineering Team on a permanent basis at Hadley Park, Huntingdon. You’ll provide reactive and proactive maintenance on chocolate production equipment to support safety, GMP standards, and overall production performance.

The role operates on a rotating weekly shift pattern (5:30am-2pm and 1:30pm-10pm), with a 1 in 8 weeks weekend call-out. In return, you’ll enjoy a competitive salary and staff discounts of 50% on all products, plus 70% for you

Qualifications

• Essential Multi skilled engineer with electrical bias experience (To a minimum NVQ Level 3).
• Experience of working in a Food Safe Manufacturing Environment.
• Experience within a FMCG environment.
• Desirable Experience in a fast paced, highly dynamic production facility (FMCG).
• Robust self-awareness, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan, organise and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Any welding/fabricating skills would be a great addition to the team.

Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive and preventative maintenance schedules on a range of manufacturing equipment including holding tanks, depositors, CAD machines, robots, spiral chillers, conveyors, temperer machines, enrobers etc.
• Perform fault finding and diagnosis exercises and then acting upon any underlying root cause issues.
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Health and Environmental requirements.
• Ensuring that Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) standards are maintained, guaranteeing food safety priority in all works carried out.
• Carry out regular inspections, diagnosing and resolving any electrical or mechanical faults.
• Support on any continuous improvement projects whilst adopting lean processes to deliver optimal return on investment.
• Liaise with the Projects Team to ensure new equipment orders are fully integrated within line operations.
• Support innovations for cost and energy reduction.
• Design and implement innovative controls and procedures to support Hotel Chocolat's continuous improvement mindset.
• To maintain accurate and timely records of all work carried out, including passing of detailed information upon handover between shifts.

Skills

Electrical bias

Maintenance

FMCG experience

Food safety awareness

Education

NVQ Level 3 (Electrical)

Tools

CAD machines

Robotic systems

Conveyor systems

Job description

Hotel Chocolat is hiring a Shift Engineer to join our Engineering Team on a permanent basis at Hadley Park, Huntingdon. You’ll provide reactive and proactive maintenance on chocolate production equipment to support safety, GMP standards, and overall production performance.

The role operates on a rotating weekly shift pattern (5:30am-2pm and 1:30pm-10pm), with a 1 in 8 weeks weekend call-out. In return, you’ll enjoy a competitive salary and staff discounts of 50% on all products, plus 70% for you