Maintenance Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Watford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food manufacturing company in Watford is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for their night shift team. The role requires resolving mechanical and electrical issues, implementing preventative maintenance strategies, and ensuring ongoing operational efficiency. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience in engineering, along with formal qualifications. Attractive benefits include enhanced maternity/paternity leave and flexible holiday options.

Benefits

Option to buy more holiday.

Enhanced maternity/paternity benefits.

Free product.

Flexi week opportunity.

Cycle to work.

Summer Fridays.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years’ engineering experience in manufacturing.
• Multi-skilled with formal qualification in electrical or mechanical subjects.
• Apprenticeship in an engineering discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure smooth factory operations by resolving mechanical and electrical breakdowns.
• Carry out maintenance in both low care and high care environments.
• Manage plant uptime and maintenance KPIs.

Skills

Mechanical breakdown resolution

Electrical breakdown resolution

Proactive maintenance

Education

NVQ Level 3 or higher

Nationally recognised apprenticeship

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31.05.2025

Expiry Date:

15.07.2025

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Job Description:

Location: Hertfordshire

7pm to 7am 4 days on, 4 days off

Our client are market leaders in their sector in food manufacturing and due to growth they are looking for another Engineer to join the night shift team.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be ensuring the smooth running of the factory by resolving predominately mechanical and electrical breakdowns, delivering maintenance and driving improvements across the site in terms of new machinery, hygiene, quality, and performance.

Every individual has a responsibility for Health and Safety, and this must be at the forefront of all engineering activity.

• Expected to carry out all maintenance across the factory, in both a low care and high care environment Work with engineering team to test install and commission new equipment.
• Attend to breakdowns onsite ensuring that there is always a rapid response and that plant equipment and machinery breakdown time is minimised.
• Always endeavour to reduce downtime of site plant and machinery
• Carry out repairs to plant and equipment during production, effectively and efficiently, either alone and/or as part of a team.
• To carry out PPM onsite whilst always ensuring that there is a pro-active approach to planned maintenance and a high PPM output.
• Deliver on plant uptime and maintenance KPIs through planned, preventative & predictive maintenance.
• Deliver improvement work on machinery and site improvement work; Ensure Engineering time is managed effectively and that that there is low Engineering down-time

You:

• Minimum of 3 years’ engineering experience ideally within manufacturing
• Multi-skilled with formal engineering qualification to NVQ Level 3 or higher, in an electrical or mechanical subject.
• Ideally a nationally recognised apprenticeship in an engineering discipline.

Benefits include:-

• Option to buy more holiday.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity (Maternity is 6 months full pay after 2 years of service. 3 months full for 1-2 years).
• Free product.
• Flexi week opportunity every year.
• Cycle to work.
• Summer Fridays (June/July/August finish at 1pm on Fridays)

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