Maintenance Engineer

The Sterling Choice; Selby; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime opportunities

Career development

Supportive engineering team

Job summary

The Sterling Choice is seeking an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer for a busy FMCG manufacturing site. You will keep high-speed production running, diagnose faults, and ensure the only unplanned stops are for tea.

This role offers variety, overtime opportunities, and a collaborative engineering team. Your day will include electrical and PLC fault finding, preventative maintenance, and responding to breakdowns.

Qualifications

• Electrical engineering qualification required (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent).
• Experience in FMCG, food, beverage, packaging or other fast-paced manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

• Electrical fault finding on production machinery and automated equipment.
• PLC fault finding.
• Planned preventative maintenance.
• Responding to breakdowns without causing further issues.
• Working with the production team to keep downtime to a minimum.
• Spotting improvements and acting on them.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

PLC fault finding

Planned preventative maintenance

Downtime reduction

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

NVQ Level 3 / City & Guilds (Electrical)

Job description

Let's play a game...

You walk onto shift and someone says:

"It's been making that noise all morning..."

Do you:

• A) Slowly back away.
• B) Pretend you didn't hear them.
• C) Grab your tools and start asking the right questions.

If you picked C, keep reading.

We're looking for an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer to join a busy FMCG manufacturing site where no two shifts are the same. You'll be keeping high-speed production running, fault finding when things go wrong, and making sure the only unplanned stops are for tea.

Your day might include:

• Electrical fault finding on production machinery and automated equipment.
• PLC fault finding
• Planned preventative maintenance.
• Responding to breakdowns without causing one yourself.
• Working with the production team to keep downtime to a minimum.
• Spotting improvements instead of walking past them.

You'll probably fit in if you:

• Have an electrical engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent).
• Have worked in FMCG, food, beverage, packaging or another fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Enjoy fault finding more than replacing parts until something works.
• Can keep calm when everyone else is asking, "How long's it going to be?"

What's in it for you?

• A stable manufacturing business that invests in its people and equipment.
• Plenty of variety - no sitting around waiting for something to break.
• Overtime opportunities.
• A supportive engineering team where knowledge is shared, not guarded.
• Genuine opportunities to develop your skills and progress your career.

If you're the sort of engineer who enjoys solving problems, keeping production moving and leaving the machine in a better state than you found it, we'd love to hear from you.