Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Carrs-Billington-Agriculture-2; Lancaster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

An attractive salary package

25 days annual leave

Staff discount

Job summary

Carr’s Billington Agriculture in Lancaster is seeking a proactive Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join Lancaster Mill, a large-scale animal feed manufacturing facility.

You will perform electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault finding, planning, and reactive repairs, driving equipment reliability while upholding health, feed safety and environmental standards.

Qualifications

• Engineering experience within a bulk handling production environment.
• Working knowledge of standard H&S practices (hot works, WAH, LOTO etc).
• Strong communications skills and problem solving abilities.
• Experience with maintenance software and IT systems.
• Qualification to NVQ level 3 or City and Guilds standard in Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Carry out electrical and mechanical maintenance across the site to keep plant safe and efficient.
• Respond to breakdowns, diagnose faults and implement repairs to minimise downtime.
• Carry out planned preventative maintenance per schedules and systems.
• Support ongoing plant reliability and continuous production with operations teams.
• Ensure safe work practices under the site Permit to Work system and company policies.

Skills

Bulk handling

H&S knowledge

Communication skills

Problem solving

Maintenance software

Education

NVQ level 3 or City and Guilds in Engineering

Job description

Location: On site / Lansil Way, Lancaster LA1 3QY, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry and Food Processing | General
Annual Salary range:from £ 42,000.00 to £ 46,000.00

We are looking for a proactive and highly motivated Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join our team at Lancaster Mill. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in maintaining and improving the performance of a large-scale animal feed manufacturing facility, ensuring the highest standards of safety, reliability, and efficiency.

ABOUT US

Every day we provide rural and agricultural communities with the support they need to succeed. Whether they are after a healthier herd or flock, increased yields, faster growth rates, a decent return on their land or even just a helping hand. We have the people, products, and services to help our customers get from where they are now to where they want to be. This is why every role at Carr’s Billington is hugely important to our shared success and why we welcome talent from across all different backgrounds to work across our retail, feed, machinery, fuel and central support divisions.

Carr’s Billington Agriculture is a subsidiary company of The Billington Group, who are also the proud owner of Criddle & Co.& English Provender Company.

THE JOB

As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of our manufacturing facility. This hands‑on position involves a varied mix of electrical and mechanical maintenance activities, including fault finding, planned preventative maintenance (PPM), repairs, and reactive breakdown response. Working closely with production and operational teams, you will help minimise downtime, maximise plant performance, and support the delivery of high-quality products while maintaining the highest standards of health and safety, feed safety, and environmental compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out electrical and mechanical maintenance activities across the site, ensuring plant and equipment operate safely and efficiently.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns, diagnosing faults and implementing effective repairs to minimise production downtime.
• Complete planned preventative maintenance tasks in line with maintenance schedules and company systems.
• Work collaboratively with operational teams and stakeholders to support continuous production and plant reliability.
• Operate within the site's Permit to Work system, ensuring all work is carried out safely and in accordance with company procedures.
• Support planned maintenance shutdowns, helping to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and on schedule.
• Maintain engineering stores and spare parts stock levels to avoid unnecessary production interruptions.
• Participate in the site on‑call maintenance rota and provide out‑of‑hours support when required.
• Promote and maintain high standards of housekeeping, safety, quality, and hygiene across all engineering work areas.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance equipment performance, reliability, and efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, company policies, and industry standards, including UFAS, FIAS, NOPS, and other applicable assurance schemes.
• Take ownership of your ongoing professional development, continually building technical skills and knowledge.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proactive and safety‑focused engineer who enjoys problem‑solving, working as part of a team, and making a real impact on operational performance.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALITIES REQUIRED

• Engineering experience within a bulk handling production environment
• Responds positively to changing business priorities, and able to remain calm when under pressure
• Have a working knowledge of standard H&S practices (hot works, WAH, LOTO etc)
• Strong communications skills
• Strong problem solving techniques, through innovative, logical and structured thinking
• Experience of maintenance software and other IT
• Qualification to NVQ level 3 or City and Guilds standard in Engineering

BENEFITS

As part of The Billington Group we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• An attractive salary package.
• Annual salary reviews in September each year.
• A minimum of 25 days annual leave.
• Opportunity to work for a well-established family‑owned business with ambitions for growth and innovation.

Your Health

• Health Assured : Access to an Employee Assistance Programme which offers counselling and health and wellbeing advice.
• Sick pay : Generous company sick pay entitlement.
• Health Cash Plan : A health cash plan allowing colleagues to claim back money spent on everyday health care such as optical, dental, physiotherapy and much more.

Your Lifestyle

• Staff Discount : Colleagues are eligible for a generous staff discount on selected products at our Country Stores.
• Cycle to work scheme : A salary sacrifice scheme saving you tax on the purchase of a new bicycle and associated equipment.
• Flexible life assurance and critical illness cover : Choose to increase the level of life assurance cover already provided to you by the company or add critical illness cover, all at preferential rates.
• My Savings Hub : Access to an exclusive member’s discount website with over 3,500 brands where you can save money and earn cashback on spends from grocery shopping to holidays.
• Salary finance benefits : Savings schemes, preferential rate loans and wage advances all through payroll as well as tools for financial education.

Your Future

• Pension : Enrolment into the Company pension scheme after 3 months of employment.
• Training & Development : Role specific training and ongoing training and development opportunities identified through our annual appraisal process.

Right to Work Under Section 8 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, Please note that this role is not eligible for visa sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker route. Therefore, to be considered for this position, you must already have the legal right to work in the UK. Please confirm that you are able to provide appropriate documentation to verify this status.