Multi-Skilled Engineer

butternutbox; Worksop; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement (33 days)

Extra leave with service

Pre-booked holiday hours

Job summary

Butternut Box is seeking a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual-site operation in the UK. The role focuses on maintaining production, fulfilment, and site services equipment with strong fault-finding in a high-volume setting.

Requires an apprenticeship, an HNC in engineering, and proven experience. You will lead shifts, coach others, and drive reliability while collaborating across teams in a fast-growing dog-food business.

Qualifications

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background with a recognised apprenticeship.
• Electrical bias with strong diagnostics experience.
• Excellent communication and ability to engage with shift operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with production and fulfilment to ensure full equipment availability.
• Lead shift operations, guiding and coaching the shift leadership team.
• Diagnose and fix plant issues including site services.
• Own and drive reliability of machinery and respond to breakdowns.
• Provide handover and ensure smooth transition between shifts.
• Carry out root cause analysis of efficiency losses and major breakdowns.
• Contribute to continuous improvement plans for your area.

Skills

Multi-skilled engineering

Electrical diagnostics

Shift leadership

Communication skills

Planning & scheduling

Team coaching

Interpersonal skills

Dog lover

Education

Recognised apprenticeship

HNC in Engineering

Tools

Google Suite

Job description

Role: Multi Skilled Engineer

Career Step Level: Step level 2.0

Location: Blyth, Worksop

Salary: £62,868.47

Hours: A shift rotation with a mixture of days / nights and some weekend working. The working shifts days consisting of 6am to 6pm and nights consisting of 6pm-6am.

Fresh Food, Happy Dogs.

We believe dogs deserve the healthiest, most natural and tastiest meals - with none of the nasties. That's why we make FRESHly prepared food, cooked just like you would at home and delivered direct to our customers in perfect portions. As a B-Corp certified company, you're joining a sustainable business that genuinely cares about our people, our products and our impact on the planet. Our goal is simple: to help dogs live healthier, happier, and longer lives, while leaving humans smiling after every interaction.

We've come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave), hand delivered the very first Butternut Box. Today, we feed hundreds of thousands of hungry dogs across the UK and Europe - but we won't stop until we're feeding dogs everywhere. To get there, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work for us.

While Rudie's Kitchen and Ace's Pantry in Doncaster remain the heart of our UK operations, we've recently taken a massive leap forward with Sam's Kitchen in Poland, going live in January this year. This expansion is a huge part of our story, allowing us to bring our gently cooked, human-quality meals to even more four-legged friends across Europe.

The job

You might know this role as a Facilities Engineer , Maintenance Engineer , or Manufacturing Engineer , but here at Butternut Box, we call it a Multi-Skilled Engineer . As a Multi Skilled Engineer for a dual site operation, Rudie's Kitchen, our Manufacturing Site and Ace's Pantry, our UK Warehouse & Fulfilment Centre, you will have full accountability for the Efficient up-keep of all production, fulfilment and site services equipment.

The Engineer needs to be able to fault-find and problem-solve on a broad range of equipment and situations, which is key to resolving technical/engineering issues in a high-volume production environment where keeping the plant running safely and efficiently is the prime objective.

In this role, you can expect to...

• Partner with our production and fulfilment teams to ensure the full availability of people, knowledge, skills and equipment to keep us cooking (and to be able to cook more as we scale).
• Be an expert, guide and coach demonstrating shift leadership during the day-to-day running of the Kitchen, advising and sharing a view of how we can operate during proactive and reactive requirements with the shift leadership team.
• Be readily available and the first point of contact to diagnose and fix plant issues, including site services.
• Own and drive the reliability of our machinery and react promptly and proactively to breakdown issues escalated across the entire Kitchen whilst on duty.
• To provide the final port of call for our teams in diagnosing reasons for the plant not running to Standard Operating Conditions and being the highest technical skill within the factory's day-to-day operation.
• Carrying out Root Cause Analysis of efficiency losses & significant breakdowns.
• To drive the CI plan for your area of ownership, working alongside the days-based Engineering Team
• Being a key part of the operations team through short interval control meetings, collaborating cross functionally and supporting Op's with coaching, SOP writing and Technical Training.
• Ensure a robust and informative handover to the oncoming shift to ensure activity continues cohesively, equally ensuring handover to the other side so we can always be moving things forward.

Rudies & Aces systems

Provide site Services (Cooling systems, steam, air, water, gas and electricity) and full site asset install base (Mixing, Filling, Cooking, Freezing & Fulfilment).

What we're looking for

• Strong multi-skilled engineering background including completion of a recognised apprenticeship.
• Multi Skilled Engineer with electrical bias, ideally with strong experience in Electrical diagnostics.
• Qualified to HNC level in an Engineering discipline.
• Hungry for a challenge and keen to grow something to our next phase of growth
• Excellent Communication skills, able to engage with shift operations teams
• P.C literate in: Cloud based system, ideally Google Suite, etc.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in an Engineering or Senior Technician Role
• Supervisory experience with broad working knowledge of relevant safety legislation.
• Well practised planning, organisation and scheduling skills.
• Ability to coach and train, leading others by example.
• Easily approachable with good interpersonal skills, with creative thinking and analytical skills
• Loves dogs (naturally)

Our benefits

• Enjoy 257.5 hours of holiday per year (equivalent to 33 days holiday)*
• Plus an extra day for each year of service (up to 5 days).*
• 39 hours of pre-booke