Continuous Improvement Engineer

The Collective Network; Wisbech; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Collective Network is seeking a Continuous Improvement Engineer for our Cambridgeshire food manufacturing site. You will focus on reliability, efficiency and ongoing improvement, moving beyond reactive maintenance to shape engineering performance.

Join a team investing in its future where your ideas become action, with a Monday–Friday days pattern and a salary up to £50,000. This role offers real site impact and clear opportunities to drive lasting change.

Qualifications

• Experience in Food, FMCG or fast-paced manufacturing.
• Strong multi-skilled engineering background.
• Passion for reliability, efficiency and permanent problem solving.
• Experience with root cause analysis and continuous improvement techniques.

Responsibilities

• Drive machinery reliability across the site and increase uptime.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement measurable improvements.
• Use downtime trends and maintenance data to eliminate root causes.
• Improve maintenance strategies to maximise equipment performance.
• Work with Engineering and Production to raise efficiency and reliability.
• Support machinery upgrades, site investment projects and CI initiatives.

Skills

Food/FMCG experience

Multiskilled engineering

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Education

Engineering qualification (Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, HNC)

Job description

Continuous Improvement Engineer

Cambridgeshire
Up to £50,000
Monday - Friday Days

Ready to build something, not just maintain it?

If you're the type of engineer who spots recurring issues and thinks, "There's a better way," then keep reading.

This isn't a role where you'll spend every day chasing breakdowns. It's your chance to join a food manufacturing site that's entering a new phase.

Following a recent transformation and investment in its Senior Leadership Team, the business is building a stronger engineering culture with reliability, efficiency and continuous improvement at its core. They need someone who wants to roll their sleeves up, challenge the norm and leave the site in a better place than they found it.

If you've been looking for a role where your ideas are listened to and your work creates lasting change, this is it.

What you'll be doing

• Drive machinery reliability across the site, reducing recurring failures and increasing uptime.
• Identify inefficiencies and implement engineering solutions that deliver measurable improvements.
• Use downtime trends and maintenance data to eliminate root causes‑not just fix the symptoms.
• Improve maintenance strategies to maximise equipment performance.
• Work alongside Engineering and Production to increase efficiency and overall equipment reliability.
• Support machinery upgrades, site investment projects and continuous improvement initiatives.

What you'll bring

• Experience within Food, FMCG or another fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• A strong multi-skilled engineering background.
• A passion for reliability, efficiency and solving engineering problems permanently.
• Experience with root cause analysis and continuous improvement techniques.
• An engineering qualification (Apprenticeship, NVQ Level 3, HNC or equivalent).

Why make the move?

• Up to £50,000
• Monday-Friday days - your evenings and weekends are yours.
• Be part of a site that's investing in its future‑not standing still.
• Work for a leadership team committed to long‑term improvement.
• A role where your ideas won't sit in a notebook‑they'll be put into action.
• The opportunity to make a visible impact on site performance and engineering standards.

Fancy getting your teeth into a site that's genuinely on the rise?

If you're ready to move beyond reactive maintenance and play a key role in shaping the future of engineering performance,