Condition Reporting Engineer

Miller’s Recruitment; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a Condition Reporting Engineer to evaluate bakery equipment's condition. This role is ideal for someone with engineering experience looking to transition into a technical assessment position. Applicants must have a strong ability to interpret service reports and write clear condition assessments. This position offers a supportive environment that values training and development.

Benefits

Training in City & Guilds accredited academy

Company-wide fun days and charity events

Company Pension

32 days holiday per year

Qualifications

• Previous hands-on engineering experience with bakery or catering equipment is essential.
• Able to read and interpret technical fault reports with a strong understanding of repair economics.
• Confident writing structured reports in plain English.

Responsibilities

• Review and interpret service reports from field engineers.
• Decide on the viability of repair versus replacement.
• Draft clear, professional condition reports.

Skills

Hands-on engineering experience

Technical report interpretation

Commercial awareness

Good communication

Job description

About Us

We’re a specialist supplier of commercial bakery and catering equipment, working with businesses across the UK to provide reliable, high-performance machinery and long-term support. We pride ourselves on our technical expertise and our ability to offer honest, well-informed guidance to our customers.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced engineer – ideally with a background in bakery equipment – to step off the tools and into a technical assessment role. As a Condition Reporting Engineer, you’ll review detailed engineer reports and determine whether equipment is repairable or beyond economic repair. You’ll compile professional condition reports for customers, recommend the best course of action, and propose suitable replacements where needed.

This is a great opportunity for someone with hands-on engineering experience who wants to transition into a more office-based, advisory role – while still using their technical knowledge every day.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and interpret service reports from field engineers to assess the condition of bakery and catering equipment.
• Decide on the viability of repair versus replacement based on fault history, cost of parts, and operational risk.
• Write clear, professional condition reports that help customers understand the state of their equipment.
• Produce accurate, cost-effective quotations for replacement units when needed.
• Liaise with engineers, the sales team, and customers to ensure smooth communication and timely decisions.
• Maintain a structured record of assessments, decisions, and customer communications.

About You

• Previous hands-on engineering experience with bakery or catering equipment is essential.
• Able to read and interpret technical fault reports with a strong understanding of repair economics.
• Confident writing structured reports in plain English.
• Commercial awareness – comfortable with quoting, pricing, and recommending alternative options.
• Good communicator, both written and verbal, with strong attention to detail.

Company Information

Who are we?
Miller’s Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK’s Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: –

• Nationwide reactive maintenance
• Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services
• Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment

We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of £4 billion p.a.

Our people
Despite being a large operation here at Miller’s Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU…the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments:

• New (2021) Technical response centre
• Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility
• Industry leading Mercedes Benz fleet

We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Career Development
Training is also a huge part of our culture here at Miller’s Vanguard and our City and Guilds accredited training centre is where we coach and develop our employees regardless of your position or your length of service, we want to make sure that our staff can progress and keep pace with ever changing equipment technologies.

Why Join Us

• Training in our City & Guilds accredited academy
• Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles
• Company wide fun days and charity events
• Company Pension
• 32 days holiday per year
• Regular staff ‘treats’ for employees and their families