Maintenance Engineer

Job description

Job Title :

Multi-Skilled Engineer (Food Manufacturing)

Department: Engineering / Maintenance             Reports to: Maintenance Manager

Shift Pattern: [Days / Nights / Rotating Shifts]     Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Location : West Midlands

Job Descriptions:

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a busy food manufacturing environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining, fault-finding and repairing production and packaging equipment to ensure maximum reliability, minimum downtime and safe, efficient production.

Candidates may come from an electrical, mechanical or multi-skilled engineering background, but must have strong practical, hands-on maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance.
• Respond quickly to production breakdowns and minimise equipment downtime.
• Diagnose, fault-find and repair production and packaging machinery.
• Maintain equipment including motors, gearboxes, bearings, pumps, conveyors, drives, sensors, pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
• Carry out routine inspections, servicing and component replacement.
• Support machinery installation, modification and commissioning.
• Identify recurring equipment problems and support Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Contribute to Continuous Improvement and equipment reliability initiatives.
• Complete maintenance records and update CMMS where applicable.
• Work closely with Production and Operations teams.
• Ensure all engineering activities comply with Health & Safety, BRCGS, HACCP, GMP and food hygiene requirements.

Skills & Experience

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Recognised engineering qualification – NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, BTEC or equivalent.
• Hands-on maintenance engineering experience within food manufacturing, FMCG or a similar production environment.
• Strong practical fault-finding and breakdown experience.
• Experience maintaining production and/or packaging machinery.
• Good understanding of PPM and reactive maintenance.
• Ability to diagnose problems and carry out repairs safely and efficiently.
• Comfortable working independently and as part of an engineering team.
• Flexible and able to work within a fast-paced production environment.

Desirable:

• Previous experience within food, beverage, bakery, dairy, meat, ingredients, sauces or other FMCG manufacturing.
• PLC fault-finding experience.
• 18th Edition qualification.
• Experience with CMMS systems.
• Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement or RCA experience.

Candidate:

• We are open to engineers from electrical, mechanical or multi-skilled backgrounds. What is most important is that you are a practical, hands-on maintenance engineer who is confident working on manufacturing equipment, diagnosing breakdowns and getting production back up and running safely and efficiently.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Birmingham

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

12-09-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English