Shift Maintenance Engineer (Multiskilled)

Mars; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A global food production company located in Gillingham is seeking a Shift Maintenance Engineer to handle maintenance for specialized pet food processing and packaging equipment. This role requires an engineering background, problem-solving skills, and experience in a maintenance department. The ideal candidate will work in a dynamic team environment with opportunities for personal development and considerable benefits including competitive salary and performance-related bonus.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Free on-site parking

Employee shop

Qualifications

• Solid foundation in Engineering & Technical skills, built through a recognized apprenticeship.
• Demonstrable experience working in a maintenance or reliability department.
• Self-sufficient, hands on, and strong problem-solving ability.

Responsibilities

• Perform fault diagnosis & repairs on random failures on production machinery.
• Responsibility for technical safety and food safety standards on your shift.
• Provide technical experience and support to the Shift Operations Team.

Skills

Engineering & Technical skills

Problem-solving ability

Industry Health & Safety knowledge

Education

National Standard level 4 or relevant level 3 in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering

Job description

Overview

Shift Maintenance Engineer (Multi skilled) — Castle Cary

• Salary: GBP43,600 - GBP46,100 (prorated and inclusive of shift allowance) dependent on experience plus performance related company bonus
• Hours: 32 hours per week
• Weekend: 2x shifts Saturday & Sunday alternating weekly between (nights) 10pm-10am & (days) 10am-10pm
• Weekday: 1x shift Mon-Fri 8am-4pm/6am-2pm
• Permanent position

Benefits

• Private medical insurance and free flu jabs
• Free on-site parking
• Employee shop

This is a great opportunity to join the dynamic Engineering Team at our Mars Petcare factory. Your role will focus on hands-on maintenance for specialised pet food processing & packaging equipment, including both mechanical and electrical challenges. The aim of this shift-based role is to problem solve and repair technical faults on the factory equipment. These faults cause lost efficiency and factory downtime, making the Shift Maintenance Engineer a critical & highly responsible role for our site to achieve production targets in a safe and food safe manner.

You will need to collaborate with other shift maintenance engineers, shift operations, and days engineers to maintain and improve future factory performance and asset reliability. This means you will also become involved in longer term improvements and projects to improve reliability on a particular asset, maintenance schedule, or maintenance strategy.

What are we looking for?

• Solid foundation in Engineering & Technical skills, built through a recognized apprenticeship.
• National Standard level 4 (or relevant level 3) or HNC / HND level in a combined Electrical & Mechanical Engineering discipline. Or Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualification but with other qualifications / proven experience in the other discipline.
• Self-sufficient, hands on, and strong problem-solving ability. Systematic root cause analysis of technical issues.
• Demonstrable experience working in a maintenance or reliability department.
• Industry Health & Safety knowledge (e.g. LOTO, Risk Assessments & Safe Work Permits)

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Perform fault diagnosis & repairs on random failures on production machinery, identifying the root cause in the repair process.
• Responsibility for technical safety and food safety standards on your shift, supporting the Shift Operations Manager.
• Provide technical experience and support to the Shift Operations Team.
• Responsible for overseeing all factory services on shift (including steam, electricity, air, water, and gas)
• Determine when and which technical issues are escalated to the days team.
• Complete planned maintenance activities & improvements with smooth transitions from maintenance back to production

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

About Mars

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's, SNICKERS, TWIX, MILKY WAY, DOVE, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, WHISKAS, EXTRA, ORBIT, 5, SKITTLES, BEN'S ORIGINAL and COCOAVIA. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world's pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals, BluePearl, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA and Pet Partners. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles - Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom - inspire our 130,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.