Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer - FMCG Automation

Protea Recruitment Ltd | Food | Drinks | FMCG Recruitment Partner; Newry; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Protea Recruitment Ltd is partnering with an established food manufacturing business in County Down to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer. You will join a fast-paced environment, supporting reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement of production equipment.

You will handle reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance, diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults and working with production teams to minimise downtime while maintaining safety standards.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years' maintenance engineering experience within FMCG, food manufacturing or similar fast-paced production environment.
• Completed engineering apprenticeship and relevant engineering qualification, ideally HNC level or above.
• Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding experience.
• Experience maintaining automated production and packaging machinery.
• Good understanding of planned preventative maintenance systems.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety requirements within a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Carry out reactive maintenance and fault-finding across production and packaging equipment.
• Complete planned preventative maintenance (PPM) activities to improve equipment reliability.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical and mechanical faults, minimising production disruption.
• Maintain accurate engineering records and update maintenance management systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve machinery performance, reliability and efficiency.
• Support continuous improvement, automation and engineering improvement projects.
• Ensure engineering activities comply with Health & Safety and food safety standards.
• Liaise with external contractors and equipment suppliers when required.
• Monitor engineering spares and ensure critical components are available.
• Work closely with production teams to support operational targets and minimise downtime.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Mechanical fault-finding

Maintenance planning

PLC fault-finding

CMMS

Health & Safety awareness

Independent worker

Education

Engineering apprenticeship

HNC or above

Tools

CMMS software

PLC basics

Job description

Protea Recruitment Ltd is partnering with an established food manufacturing business in County Down to recruit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer. You will join a fast-paced environment, supporting reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement of production equipment.

You will handle reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance, diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults and working with production teams to minimise downtime while maintaining safety standards.