Maintenance Engineer - Facilities, Engineering

JR United Kingdom; Towcester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK engineering company is seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join their Facilities Engineering Team in Towcester. Responsibilities include performing mechanical maintenance and checks at a major manufacturing facility. Ideal candidates will have a strong mechanical engineering background and experience in the food and beverage sector. Competitive salary and benefits are offered, including a shift allowance raising total earnings to £48,000.

Benefits

20% shift allowance

Overtime for shift cover

On-call premiums

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in industrial machine maintenance.
• Experience in the food and beverage industry is essential.
• Electrically or mechanically qualified preferred.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned, preventive, and reactive mechanical maintenance.
• Perform regular checks to boilers, humidifiers, and water supplies.
• Conduct basic building fabric maintenance tasks.

Skills

Industrial machine maintenance

Mechanical engineering background

Electrical response to breakdowns

Education

C&G level 3 qualification

Tools

Basic maintenance tools

Job description

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Maintenance Engineer - Facilities, Engineering, towcester

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Client:

Carbon60

Location:

towcester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Views:

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Posted:

04.08.2025

Expiry Date:

18.09.2025

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Job Description:

Towcester, Northampton, NN12 8EQ

Temporary to Permanent position.

Continental Shifts: 12 hours x 2 days and 2 nights on, 4 days off etc.

The company is a leading UK engineering business specialising in major mechanical and electrical installations within the food and beverage manufacturing industry. The huge range of work carried out by the company includes pipework and plant installations, planned and preventive maintenance, facilities management along with a variety of other engineering services. This is a fantastic opportunity for a maintenance engineer to join the company's Facilities Engineering Team supporting a high-profile facilities management contract in Towcester, NN12 8EQ.

Duties
As a suitably qualified and experienced maintenance engineer, you will be working on site at a major manufacturing facility in Towcester. Primary responsibility will be to work within the hard services facilities team carrying out planned, preventive and reactive mechanical maintenance to engineering assets across the site. Specific duties will include regular checks to boilers, humidifiers, primary water supplies, secondary water supplies and plant room. Although the work is predominantly mechanically biased there will be some electrical works including 1st line electrical response to breakdowns and basic electrical works including disconnecting machines. Other general works will include periodic inspection and compliance checks for example chemical sampling, changing AC filters, checking Ph levels along with basic building fabric maintenance like changing light bulbs, emulsion painting, changing locks and hanging notice boards.

About You
Based ideally in Northamptonshire or Warwickshire you will need to live within a commutable distance of NN12 8EQ.
Demonstrable experience within an industrial machine maintenance environment, ideally within the food and beverage industry with a strong mechanical engineering background is essential. Full training will be given on the scheduled and routine maintenance required for each
Electrically or Mechanically qualified to C&G level 3 is preferred.

What do you think ?
In return for your experience, you will receive a basic salary between £35,000 and £40,000 plus a 20% salary uplift (£48,000) for shift allowance, overtime for shift cover and premiums for on-call as well as a range of other benefits.

Please get in touch by sending your current CV or calling David on 07711 734 452 to discuss your application in more detail.

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