Maintenance Engineer

Maintech Recruitment Ltd; Uttoxeter; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Cycle2Work scheme

Job summary

Maintech Recruitment Ltd. is recruiting a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) for a well-established food manufacturing site in Uttoxeter.

The role covers a diverse range of machinery, from PLC-controlled robotics to century-old ovens, offering hands-on variety and genuine progression opportunities within the site’s engineering function. The successful candidate will diagnose and repair complex faults, perform both preventative and reactive maintenance, and mentor apprentices

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Electrical, Mechanical or Multi-Skilled Engineering.
• Electrically biased engineer with strong fault-finding capability.
• Experience within manufacturing or FMCG maintenance environments.
• Comfortable working across a varied equipment base, from PLC/robotic systems to older mechanical plant.
• Experience mentoring apprentices or junior engineers desirable.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across a wide mix of production and packaging equipment, from PLC-controlled robotic cells to traditional oven plant.
• Diagnose and repair complex electrical and mechanical faults to minimise downtime.
• Work across ovens, mixers, chillers, robotics and packaging lines.
• Make full use of the on-site stores and workshop facilities to carry out proper, lasting repairs.
• Support continuous improvement projects and reliability initiatives across the site.
• Work closely with production teams to improve machine performance and uptime.
• Support the development and mentoring of engineering apprentices.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Mechanical fault-finding

Multi-skilled engineering

PLC/Robotics

Mentoring apprentices

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical/Mechanical or Multi-Skilled Engineering

Job description

Location; Uttoxeter

We are working with a well-established food manufacturing business operating within a high-volume FMCG production environment, supplying products into major retail and foodservice markets. The site runs a genuinely varied range of production and packaging machinery, from PLC-controlled robotic lines through to a fleet of characterful, century-old ovens still in daily use - giving engineers real breadth across old and new technology, not just the same few assets on repeat.

This is a great opportunity for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join a proactive engineering team on a site where maintenance is genuinely valued and properly resourced. Engineers work from a fully equipped stores and workshop - mills, lathes and a comprehensive stock of engineering spares - so faults get fixed properly rather than bodged to keep the line running, and reliability work actually gets the time it needs.

The role has arisen due to an internal promotion, reflecting the real progression opportunities within the engineering function. It would suit a Maintenance Engineer who enjoys hands-on variety - robotics, PLCs, mechanical fault-finding on legacy equipment - and wants to build strong working relationships with production teams.

Responsibilities of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across a wide mix of production and packaging equipment, from PLC-controlled robotic cells to traditional oven plant
• Diagnose and repair complex electrical and mechanical faults to minimise downtime
• Work across ovens, mixers, chillers, robotics and packaging lines
• Make full use of the on-site stores and workshop facilities to carry out proper, lasting repairs
• Support continuous improvement projects and reliability initiatives across the site
• Work closely with production teams to improve machine performance and uptime
• Support the development and mentoring of engineering apprentices

Skills & Qualifications of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Electrical, Mechanical or Multi-Skilled Engineering
• Electrically biased engineer with strong fault-finding capability
• Experience within manufacturing or FMCG maintenance environments
• Comfortable working across a varied equipment base, from PLC/robotic systems to older mechanical plant
• Experience mentoring apprentices or junior engineers desirable

Benefits of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• Salary: £48,226.25 plus paid overtime
• 4 on 4 off shift pattern (days & nights, 06:00-18:00)
• Fully equipped stores and workshop - mills, lathes and comprehensive spares holding
• Genuine variety of machinery, including PLC-controlled robotics and 100-year-old oven plant
• Genuine career progression opportunities within the business
• Pension scheme
• Cycle2Work scheme