Shift Engineer - Electrical

Inspired Pet Nutrition; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet food manufacturer located in Northampton is seeking an experienced Shift Engineer to join their engineering team. The role involves ensuring safe and effective operations, performing maintenance tasks, and contributing to energy sustainability efforts. Candidates should have qualifications in Electrical and Mechanical engineering and relevant experience. This position offers a competitive salary and various benefits including free parking and car charging.

Benefits

Free electric car charging

Spotify or Netflix subscription

Discounted products

Free hot drinks

Qualifications

• Qualified or time served in Electrical and Mechanical engineering disciplines.
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS.
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment.
• Ensure a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities.
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive site improvements.

Skills

Electrical engineering expertise

Mechanical engineering knowledge

Experience with CMMS

Reliability Management expertise

Computer literacy (Microsoft Office)

Education

Qualified or time served in engineering disciplines

Job description

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Shift Engineer - Electrical, Northampton

Client:

Inspired Pet Nutrition

Location:

Northampton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Views:

11

Posted:

01.08.2025

Expiry Date:

15.09.2025

Job Description:

The Role

We are looking for an experienced Shift Engineer with an electrical bias to join our Engineering team, based in our factory in Crick, Northampton.

On Offer:

• Annual salary of £59,981
• 42 hours per week, 4 on 4 off (Days and Nights 12 hour shifts on rotation)
• Hourly rate with overtime - Paid monthly

The Company

IPN is an innovative, well-established, and award-winning pet food manufacturer, employing over 850 people across our 4 UK manufacturing sites. Our family of brands include Harringtons, Wagg, Barking Heads & Meowing Heads, AATU, Blink, Butchers, Classic Cat and a selection of partner brands that trust us to produce food on their behalf. Our kitchens in Thirsk, Kinmel and Crick produce dry, wet, and baked foods which are enjoyed by dogs and cats all over the world.

The Role

To establish and maintain safe, compliant and effective engineering operations that continually develop the site's asset base by following the Engineering strategy for proactive work whilst responding to breakdowns.

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and complete ad hoc repairs in a timely manner and by prioritising works in line with site priorities to ensure that efficient production is maintained
• Assessing the need for spares by ensuring that the critical spares and spares list is up to date and stock is at the required levels. Escalate any issues in a timely manner to the Engineering manager
• Ensuring a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities with minimal risk to employees, products and equipment. Champion safety
• Using root cause analysis on breakdowns to identify actions and drive completion of actions to prevent re-occurrence
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive the improvement throughout the site.

Skills, Experience and Qualifications - Shift Engineer

• Qualified or time served in Electrical and Mechanical engineering disciplines
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS
• Reliability Management expertise (such as FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM)
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level - desirable
• Legionella and HACCP awareness - desirable
• Experience in FMCG - desirable
• Overtime
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/pawturnity
• Pension: NEST Employee contributions 4.5% / Employer contribution 3.5% - salary sacrifice
• Other Benefits: Free parking, free electric car charging, Spotify or Netflix subscription, Hertility, discounted products & free hot drinks.
• You are also able to choose a non-contractual flexible benefits, such as being able to purchase heavily discounted pet food.