Multi Skilled Engineer

Finsbury Food Group Plc; Hamilton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading specialty bakery group in the UK is looking for a Multi Skilled Engineer for their Hamilton team. This role involves maintenance of production equipment, managing breakdowns, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications, electrical bias, and experience in a fast-paced FMCG environment. Attractive benefits include enhanced maternity/paternity leave, a robust pension scheme, and extensive learning opportunities.

Benefits

Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Retail discounts via Benefits Hub

Heavily discounted products in company shop

Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300)

Employee Recognition Awards

Extensive Learning & Development opportunities

Qualifications

• Fully qualified multi skilled engineer with relevant qualifications.
• Experience in FMCG and lean/continuous improvement environments preferred.
• Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintenance of production equipment.
• Handle unscheduled and emergency maintenance work.
• Ensure compliance with food safety and quality systems.

Skills

Electrical bias

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Team player

Education

Relevant qualifications as a multi skilled engineer

Job description

18 March 2025

Location: Lightbody, Hamilton, 73 Bothwell Road, Hamilton, ML3 0DW

Shift: 4 On 4 Off (Dayshift & Nightshift)

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Engineering team in a permanent role as a Multi Skilled Engineer based at our Hamilton site as part of 'Finsbury Food Group.'

135 years of craft baking skills lie behind the quality of the special branded cakes, sweet snacks and slices we produce in Hamilton and 55 million products are produced each year. Lightbody’s is the UK’s largest supplier of celebration cakes to UK retailers, with Disney, Mars, Universal and Thorntons all within the portfolio of branded cakes made under licence. We also make a variety of supermarkets’ well-loved own-label cakes and in-store bakery bites.

To be a success in this role, you will be a fully qualified multi skilled engineer preferably with experience in the food manufacturing industry. You will thrive working in a fast paced environment and be able to work as part of a team and demonstrate clear communication skills.

This is what you’ll actually do!

In this busy and varied role you will be a vital part of the Engineering team and will be responsible for assisting in the daily maintenance of production equipment. You will be required to deal with any unscheduled and emergency maintenance work, including all fault finding and necessary repair ensuring quick and efficient management of breakdowns that occur. You will strive to identify the root cause on each occasion and will be responsible for the booking of the duration, root cause and materials used through the Company CMMS.

You will also be required to deliver the maintenance programme in line with the planned preventative maintenance vision with all works performed following a, ‘clean as you go,’ ethic in accordance with good manufacturing practice. You will also ensure that maintenance work is carried out with due diligence and in compliance with food safety, health and safety and legal and quality systems.

There will be the opportunity within the role to participate in project work including continuous and profit improvement and you will be able to share your ideas about improvements that can be made to production lines, individual machinery or other operations.

In the role you will work closely with the site operations team and therefore you will need good communication to build positive relationships with key stakeholders.

Ideally this is you!

• Fully qualified multi skilled engineer with relevant qualifications
• Electrical bias
• Previous working experience gained in an FMCG environment
• Experience of working in a lean/continuous improvement environment
• Flexible with a hand on approach
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to work on own initiative
• Able to work under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Team player

What's in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!

Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals.

We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength.

If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!