FMCG Shift Engineer — 12h Rotating Shifts & Reliability

INSPIRED pet nutrition; Crick; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly pay rate £27.65

Shift allowance £1.95 per hour

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Pension

Overtime premium

Benefits package

Workwear & PPE

Recognition programmes

Modern FMCG environment

Job summary

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition is seeking a Shift Engineer at Crick to maintain asset reliability and support continuous improvement within a fast-paced FMCG environment. You will focus on planned and reactive maintenance, fault diagnosis, and data-driven improvements on a 12-hour rotating shift.

Join a team delivering safe, efficient manufacturing operations with a focus on energy reduction, safety, and process optimization across our Crick site.

Qualifications

• Recognised electrical qualification and time-served experience is required.
• Experience in FMCG/manufacturing with strong fault-finding across electrical, mechanical and controls.
• Experience using CMMS and maintenance planning tools.
• Knowledge of reliability methods (RCM, FMECA, TPM, CBM).
• Proficient with Microsoft Office; committed to development and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Safely maintain asset availability and reliability while minimising cost.
• Carry out planned, predictive and corrective maintenance to maximise uptime.
• Diagnose electrical, mechanical and controls faults safely.
• Lead root cause analysis to address recurring failures.
• Support continuous improvement to enhance performance and reduce costs.
• Ensure maintenance complies with safety, food safety and engineering standards.
• Maintain CMMS records and use data to drive improvements.
• Manage critical spare parts to balance availability and cost.
• Promote engineering best practice and safety learning.
• Support energy reduction and sustainability initiatives.
• Participate in reviews to drive safety, reliability and cost performance.

Skills

Time-served electrical engineer or etc

FMCG/manufacturing experience

Electrical fault-finding

CMMS maintenance planning tools

Reliability improvement methodologies

MS Office

Personal development & continuousimpr.

Nebosh/HACCP awareness advantageous

Education

Electrical apprenticeship / HNC / NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

CMMS software

Job description

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition is seeking a Shift Engineer at Crick to maintain asset reliability and support continuous improvement within a fast-paced FMCG environment. You will focus on planned and reactive maintenance, fault diagnosis, and data-driven improvements on a 12-hour rotating shift.

Join a team delivering safe, efficient manufacturing operations with a focus on energy reduction, safety, and process optimization across our Crick site.