Project Engineer

Years; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary of £55,000 - £60,000

Medicash Level 4 Cashback plan

Annual Learning & Development budget

Annual Wellbeing budget

Volunteer day per year

Bi-annual subsidised team events

Exclusive discounts for Years treats

Casual dress

Ability to sell unused holiday back

Job summary

Years in Nottingham is searching for an engineer to help build production capabilities for their fast-scaling dog food business. This hands-on role involves fabricating mechanical rigs, diagnosing equipment breakdowns, and leading automation projects. The ideal candidate will have a resourceful mindset and a breadth of skills across mechanical and electrical areas.

The position offers a salary of £55,000 - £60,000 and various benefits including a learning budget, wellbeing initiatives, and team events. You’ll be part of a growing team aiming to revolutionise the pet food industry.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with MIG/TIG welding, cutting, and assembly.
• Ability to diagnose and repair different production equipment.
• Knowledge of electrical panel wiring and design.

Responsibilities

• Fabricate and install mechanical rigs and guards.
• Diagnose and repair breakdowns across production equipment.
• Build and wire control panels, including PLCs and relays.
• Install and calibrate sensors and safety devices.
• Tune line configurations for efficiency.

Skills

Hands-on mechanical fabrication

Mechanical maintenance and repair

Electrical panel design and wiring

Sensor logic and systems integration

PLC/HMI programming

Job description

Join Our Pack

From a bold idea to revolutionising dog food, Years has grown into a fast-scaling business helping dogs live longer, healthier lives. In three years we’ve built an incredible startup serving thousands of happy customers human-grade, personalised meals, with no preservatives, delivered straight to the door. We’re scaling fast across the UK with international ambitions, and we need an engineer who can build the production capability to get us there: and grow with us as we do it.

Your Mission - Build It, Then Build What’s Next

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can turn their hand to almost anything: sketch a rig on Monday, weld it on Wednesday, wire and set it up on Friday, and have it running on the line the following week. One day you’re fabricating a guard, the next you’re fault-finding a breakdown, and then the next you’re building a panel or tuning a line for better flow.

But this isn’t a job that stands still. More Years is on a serious growth curve, and so is this role. As we scale, you’ll move from making today’s line better to shaping how we make everything: leading automation projects and playing a major part in the capital investments that build our next factory. We’re looking for someone with the breadth to be useful from day one and the ambition to grow into one of the most important technical roles in the business.

If you want a workshop, a varied workload, real ownership, and a company that will back you to grow: read on.

What You’ll Be Working On

• Fabricating and installing mechanical rigs, guards, and production aids (welding, cutting, assembly)
• Diagnosing and repairing breakdowns across a wide range of production equipment
• Building and wiring control panels: VFDs, relays, contactors, and PLCs
• Installing and calibrating sensors, solenoids, motors, and safety devices
• Tuning line configurations and flow for better efficiency
• Trialling automation that takes load off operators and unlocks capacity
• Leading and supporting capex projects from concept to commissioning: with bigger ones to come as we grow

What You’ll Bring

Breadth and ambition matter more than deep specialism. We’re looking for someone strong across most of the following, with the drive to grow into automation leadership:

• Hands-on mechanical fabrication - MIG/TIG welding, cutting, assembly, fitting
• Mechanical maintenance and repair across varied equipment
• Electrical panel design, wiring, and build
• Sensor logic, wiring, and systems integration
• Working knowledge of PLC/HMI programming (Mitsubishi, Omron, ladder logic) and the appetite to take it further
• A resourceful, ownership-driven mindset: you find a way, you finish what you start, and you want to grow

This Role Isn’t For You If…

• You’re a specialist who wants to spend every day on one discipline (e.g. pure PLC programming)
• You’d rather specify and outsource work than get hands‑on and make it yourself
• You want a fixed, predictable remit rather than a role that grows as fast as the company does

Where This Role Can Go

We’re hiring for breadth now because the person who can do a bit of everything is the person who understands the whole operation and that’s exactly who should lead our automation programme along with major capital projects as we scale. This is a genuine ground-floor opportunity in a business that’s growing fast.

What’s In It For You? Years Benefits

• Salary of £55,000 - £60,000
• Medicash Level 4 Cashback plan
• Spill EAP and Mental Health Support programme
• Annual £250.00 Learning & Development budget for courses, books or other self‑learn activities each year
• Annual £200.00 Wellbeing budget each yearUp to 2 weeks working abroad per year (selected roles)
• Monthly recognition through our Yappa of The Month programme
• 1 Volunteer day per year - dog themed or not: it’s your choice!
• Subsidised employee groups - from five a side to padel there’s loads to get involved in or the chance to start up your own group
• Bi‑annual subsidised team events from Axe throwing, crazy golf to cocktail making
• Exclusive discounts on Years and Years treats for yourself and friends/family
• Lunch & Learn programme - from dog first aid to financial savviness we’ve got sessions planned to cover all kinds of topics
• Casual dress
• Your birthday off or different day if it falls on a non‑working day
• Ability to sell any unused holiday back to Years at the end of the Holiday Year (maximum 1 working week)