Multi-Skilled Engineer

Finsbury Food Group; Mamhilad; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Death in Service Benefit

Employee Assistance Programme

Benefits Hub discounts

Refer a Friend £300

Employee Recognition Awards

Learning & Development

Sponsored professional memberships

Job summary

Finsbury Food Group in Pontypool is recruiting a Multi-Skilled Engineer to join our engineering team. You’ll perform planned and reactive maintenance across production and packing equipment, applying strong electrical and mechanical skills in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

This hands-on role emphasizes reliability, downtime reduction, and continuous improvement. You’ll work in a safety-focused team, use CMMS for maintenance records, and support production leadership to keep lines running at peak

Qualifications

• Strong multi-skilled engineering capability across electrical and mechanical disciplines.
• Able to troubleshoot and repair equipment independently.
• Experience in fast-paced manufacturing or FMCG, food manufacturing preferred.
• Proactive under pressure, prioritisation.
• Excellent fault-finding and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience using CMMS, ideally Mainsaver.
• Strong understanding of Food Safety, Health & Safety, and GMP standards.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Time-served apprenticeship.
• SVQ/HNC or equivalent engineering qualification.
• Appropriate electrical and mechanical competency depending on core discipline.

Responsibilities

• Deliver planned and reactive maintenance across a wide range of production and packing equipment.
• Diagnose faults quickly and effectively; minimise downtime and improve plant reliability.
• Carry out repairs, maintenance, and root cause analysis.
• Support continuous improvement and engineering projects.
• Ensure all work is completed safely and to a high standard.
• Record maintenance activity, downtime, and materials within the CMMS system (Mainsaver).
• Support compliance with Food Safety, GMP, and Health & Safety standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve machinery performance and operational efficiency.
• Communicate with Production and Engineering leadership regarding downtime and corrective actions.
• Support operators with basic asset care and equipment understanding.
• Monitor contractors to ensure standards and timelines.

Skills

Electrical & Mechanical

Fault finding

Problem solving

Maintenance planning

Teamwork

Education

Time-served apprenticeship

SVQ/HNC or equivalent

Tools

CMMS (Mainsaver)

Job description

Ultrapharm, Pontypool

4on4off, Days/Nights rotation (05:00 - 17:00, 17:00 - 05:00)

Engineer

We are urgently looking for a highly capable Multi‑Skilled Engineer to join our Engineering Team at our Pontypool site.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast‑moving, growing food manufacturing business where engineering plays a critical role in operational performance, reliability, and continuous improvement.

We are specifically looking for an engineer with both strong electrical and mechanical capability who can confidently “hit the ground running” in a busy production environment. This role requires someone who is equally comfortable fault‑finding electrically as they are carrying out hands‑on mechanical maintenance and repairs.

About Us

Finsbury Food Group is a leading specialty bakery manufacturer. We constantly raise quality and efficiency standards and build long‑term relationships within the foodservice channel. Finsbury offers a wide range of bakery products and is a leading frozen supplier into the Foodservice sector.

Our Ultrapharm site is a dedicated gluten‑free bakery specialising in only gluten‑free product since 1993. The Company’s unique approach to craft and baking creates premium gluten‑free products with the flavour and taste of traditional bread. If you have a special dietary need or nutritional preference, our Pontypool bakery has you covered. Our products range from artisanal bread to our award‑winning hot cross buns and mince pies for major retailers such as M&S and Waitrose.

This is far more than a standard maintenance role. You’ll become part of a dynamic engineering team where your expertise will directly influence plant performance, downtime reduction, reliability, and continuous improvement activity across the site.

We need someone who can quickly integrate into the team, confidently support production from day one, and bring a proactive, solutions‑focused mindset to engineering challenges.

This is what you’ll actually do!

As a Multi‑Skilled Engineer, you’ll be responsible for delivering both planned and reactive maintenance across a wide range of production and packing equipment.

You’ll Apply Your Electrical And Mechanical Expertise To

• Diagnose faults quickly and effectively
• Minimise downtime and improve plant reliability
• Carry out repairs, maintenance, and root cause analysis
• Support continuous improvement and engineering projects
• Ensure all work is completed safely and to a high standard

You’ll Also

• Record maintenance activity, downtime, and materials within the CMMS system (Mainsaver)
• Support compliance with Food Safety, GMP, and Health & Safety standards
• Identify opportunities to improve machinery performance and operational efficiency
• Communicate effectively with Production and Engineering leadership regarding downtime and corrective actions
• Support operators with basic asset care and equipment understanding
• Monitor contractors when required to ensure standards and timelines are achieved

This is a hands‑on engineering role where technical ability, urgency, and problem‑solving capability are critical to success.

Ideally this is you!

• Strong multi‑skilled engineering capability across both electrical and mechanical disciplines
• The ability to confidently troubleshoot and repair equipment independently
• Experience within a fast‑paced manufacturing or FMCG environment (food manufacturing preferred)
• A proactive approach with the ability to prioritise effectively under pressure
• Excellent fault‑finding and root cause analysis skills
• Experience using CMMS systems, ideally Mainsaver
• Strong understanding of Food Safety, Health & Safety, and GMP standards
• Excellent communication and team‑working skills
• Time‑served apprenticeship
• SVQ, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification
• Appropriate electrical and mechanical competency depending on core discipline

What’s in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – T&C’s 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.

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!