Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer – Food Manufacturing

Synergi Recruitment; Watford; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergi Recruitment has a permanent multi-skilled maintenance engineer role with a mechanical bias in a Hertfordshire-based food manufacturing site. The role involves preventative and reactive maintenance on a range of production and packaging equipment, aiming to minimise downtime and keep machinery operating efficiently.

The successful candidate will diagnose mechanical and electrical faults, work on conveyors, gearboxes, motors, pneumatics and hydraulics, and perform welding/fabrication when

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Experience in food manufacturing or FMCG maintenance.
• Strong fault-finding and repair skills.
• Welding/fabrication experience (MIG/TIG preferred).
• Electrical fault-finding, PLCs, sensors and VSDs knowledge.
• Experience with automated production or packaging machinery.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance across the site.
• Diagnose and repair mechanical and electrical faults on production machinery.
• Work on conveyors, gearboxes, motors, pneumatics and hydraulics.
• Carry out welding, fabrication and mechanical repairs where required.
• Maintain and repair packaging machinery, ovens, fryers and other production equipment.
• Support continuous improvement projects to improve equipment reliability.
• Work closely with production teams to minimise downtime.

Skills

Mechanical fault-finding

Electrical fault-finding

Welding & fabrication

Pneumatics & hydraulics

Conveyors & packaging

Independent worker

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering

Job description

Synergi Recruitment has a permanent multi-skilled maintenance engineer role with a mechanical bias in a Hertfordshire-based food manufacturing site. The role involves preventative and reactive maintenance on a range of production and packaging equipment, aiming to minimise downtime and keep machinery operating efficiently.

The successful candidate will diagnose mechanical and electrical faults, work on conveyors, gearboxes, motors, pneumatics and hydraulics, and perform welding/fabrication when