Maintenance Engineer

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 13:30 – 22:00

About the Role:
We’re looking for a hands-on Maintenance Engineer to join a fast-moving, family-run food production business. You’ll play a key role in keeping modern packing, grain processing, milling, and beverage production equipment running efficiently, ensuring maximum uptime and minimal disruption for internal teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Carry out Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) across all equipment.
Diagnose and repair mechanical and electrical faults, including PLC, instrumentation, and HMI/SCADA systems.
Ensure all site PMs and legal checks are completed on schedule.
Follow and enforce Health & Safety procedures, maintaining compliance with current legislative standards.
Manage parts inventory, ordering essential items in advance to avoid delays.
Suggest and implement improvements to production processes.
Undertake any other reasonable tasks as required by colleagues.

Skills & Experience:

Mechanical/electrical qualification or equivalent hands-on experience.
Experience working on modern food manufacturing equipment.
Strong fault-finding skills, particularly with PLCs and instrumentation.
Knowledge of steam pipework, boilers (BOAS certification), HVAC, and chillers is advantageous.
Effective communication and problem-solving skills.
Adaptable team player able to thrive in a dynamic, family-run environment.

Why Join:

Fast decision-making in a supportive, family-run business.
Equal opportunities employer; we welcome candidates from all backgrounds.
Please include any accessibility requirements in your application.

Give me a call on 07810 022392 / 01636 611320…… happy to take calls after 5pm or What’s app me and I’ll call you back!

Email me at jo.botton@ambitionspersonnel.com

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