Maintenance Engineer

Refresco Drinks UK Limited; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage solutions provider in Bridgwater is seeking a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join their team. You will ensure optimal factory operations through planned and reactive maintenance on advanced machinery. The ideal candidate has a multi-skilled background including mechanical and electrical skills, holds a minimum L3 qualification, and is confident in suggesting improvements. This position offers competitive pay, a supportive team, and a thorough benefits package.

Benefits

Life assurance

Enhanced holiday allowance

Free online medical support

Premium overtime rate

Access to employee benefits platform

Qualifications

• Experienced maintenance engineer with multi-skilled engineering background.
• Minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline required.
• Confidence in proposing new ideas and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and resolving mechanical and electrical faults.
• Completing maintenance activities across the asset base.
• Involvement in factory improvement projects.

Skills

Multi-skilled engineering background

Attention to detail

Fault-finding in electrical systems

Mechanical skills

General skills in maintenance

Confidence in suggesting improvements

Education

Minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline

Tools

Processing equipment

Pneumatics

Electronics for fault-finding

Job description

Multi‑Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Bridgwater, Somerset

61,376

4 on 4 off, 12‑hour shifts, days and nights

Whats in it for you?

• Supportive team of engineers / engineering managers
• Life assurance
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Free online medical support
• Premium overtime rate (1.5x of your basic salary)
• Access to employee benefits platform – flexible benefits such as healthcare plans, dental plans, car schemes, activities pass and much more!

About the role

You will be an integral part of your team, ensuring 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
• palletisers
• packaging machinery
• processing systems
• specialist food processing machinery
• silos
• pumps
• pipework

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

• Working closely with the Engineering Team Leader to deliver 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.
• Getting involved with factory improvement projects.

About you

• Experienced maintenance engineer with a multi‑skilled engineering background (either biased).
• Minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline or time‑served.
• Multi‑skilled background—mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and general skills.
• Confidence in putting forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in daily tasks and duties.
• Experience working on processing equipment such as pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment.
• Skillset overview: fault‑finding in panels, sensors, relays, inverters, drives, motors, pumps, pneumatics, and pipework.

Candidates from an FMCG / food background would be highly desirable, however, we will consider candidates from other backgrounds. Ex‑military are welcome to apply.

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 are on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We are a global business and we currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and are only just getting started.

We are 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.