Engineering Advanced Team Operative

Refresco; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Manufacturer training

Career development

Supportive engineering team

Life assurance

Holiday allowance

Online medical support

Overtime rate

Benefits platform (Cheers)

Modern facility

Job summary

Refresco Bridgwater is seeking a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to keep our Somerset site running at peak capacity. You will diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, and control faults, supporting both planned and reactive maintenance across pallet wrappers, conveyors, pumps, silos, and packaging lines.

Applicants should have an L3 engineering qualification or time served, with a bias toward either electrical or mechanical work. FMCG experience is desirable; ex-military welcome.

Qualifications

• L3 engineering qualification or time served.
• Multi-skilled background – biased.
• Be accurate in daily tasks with attention to detail.
• Experience on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment.
• Fault finding in panels, sensors, relays, inverters, drives, motors, pumps, pneumatics, and pipework.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Engineering Team Leader, delivering a high-quality engineering service and rapidly diagnosing and resolving mechanical, electrical, basic control, and instrumentation faults.
• Completing a full range of maintenance activities across the installed asset base within your work area.
• Continuously improving performance to deliver site efficiency and meet performance standards; participate in factory improvement projects.

Skills

Multi-skilled

Maintenance

Electrical

Mechanical

Education

L3 engineering qualification

Job description

Are you a problem solver with a passion for keeping things running smoothly? Join our team as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, where every day presents a new challenge and an opportunity to make a real impact. You’ll be at the heart of our operations, ensuring that our equipment is always in peak condition and that our production never skips a beat. If you’re driven by precision, thrive under pressure, and take pride in your ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly, this is the perfect role for you. Step into a career where your expertise keeps us moving forward, and your skills are truly valued.Refresco UK is part of the Refresco Group a multi-national independent soft drinks manufacturer with 78 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America, and Australia in 15 countries.

Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer (either bias) – Bridgwater, Somerset

Warehouse and Process positions available

£54,747.36 plus shift allowance 5,474.74 Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off, 12-hour shifts, days. 24/7 shift pattern, Average of 40 hours per week

What’s in it for you?

• Manufacturer training
• Career development planning
• Supportive team of engineers/engineering managers
• Life assurance
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Free online medical support
• Overtime rate
• Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits such as healthcare plans, dental plans, car schemes, activites pass and much more!
• State-of-the-art facility with lots of variety

About the role:

You will be an integral part of your team, ensure the factory is kept up and running to its highest capacity, and work as part of a well-regarded, focused maintenance team. You will support both planned and reactive maintenance work throughout our factory on various state-of-the-art equipment including; pallet wrappers, shrink wrappers, conveyors, check weighers, palletizers, packaging machinery, processing systems, specialist food processing machinery, silos, pumps, pipework, etc.

What are your daily tasks as a Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer at Refresco Bridgwater?

• Working closely with the Engineering Team Leader, responsible for delivering a high-quality Engineering service.Rapidly diagnosing and resolving mechanical, electrical, basic control, and instrumentation faults.
• Completing a full range of maintenance activities across the entire installed asset base within your work area.
• Continuously working to improve performance to deliver site efficiency and performance standards.Get involved with factory improvement projects.

About you:

We are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer with a multi-skilled engineering background (either biased). You must hold a minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline or be time served. Candidates from an FMCG/food background would be highly desirable, however, we will consider candidates from other backgrounds. Ex-military are welcome to apply.

• L3 engineering qualification or time served
• Multi-skilled background – either biased
• Be confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Experience working on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment
• Further skillset overview: fault finding in panels, Sensors, Relays, Inverters, Drives, Motors, Pumps, Pneumatics, and Pipework.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company’s values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand. Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com. Our drinks on every table. That’s the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started. We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers. Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company’s values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.