Night Maintenance Engineer - PPM & Fault Diagnosis

Branston Potatoes; Grantham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced pension contributions

Discretionary performance bonus

Life assurance

Overtime payments

Critical illness cover

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts with retailers

Job summary

Branston Potatoes is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for night shift operations at Lincoln Fresh. You will focus on planned, preventative maintenance, logging detailed fault records, and supporting root-cause investigations.

The role requires independent work at night and strong technical judgment. The position emphasizes a shift pattern with set blocks away from work, a strong safety culture, and opportunities to contribute to a major improvement program within a fast-paced production

Qualifications

• Hands-on maintenance experience in food manufacturing or similar process environment.
• Competent in electrical and mechanical fault diagnosis and repair.
• Solid understanding of safe isolation and lockout/tagout procedures.
• Experience completing tasks on a CMMS and recording details.

Responsibilities

• Work through the PPM schedule, complete and record every task on the CMMS.
• Diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical breakdowns methodically, avoiding temporary fixes.
• Log full fault details, work performed, parts used and time taken.
• Raise issues at handover for prioritisation if not resolved during the shift.
• Provide data and observations to support root cause investigations.
• Apply required safe isolation procedures on plant and equipment.
• Maintain hygiene standards in the workshop and upon return to production.
• Serve as the on-site night shift engineering resource and escalate as needed.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Electrical fault diagnosis

Mechanical fault diagnosis

CMMS usage

Safe isolation

Lockout/Tagout

Education

City & Guilds / NVQ Level 3 in electrical or mechanical

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Branston Potatoes is seeking a Maintenance Engineer for night shift operations at Lincoln Fresh. You will focus on planned, preventative maintenance, logging detailed fault records, and supporting root-cause investigations.

The role requires independent work at night and strong technical judgment. The position emphasizes a shift pattern with set blocks away from work, a strong safety culture, and opportunities to contribute to a major improvement program within a fast-paced production