The main objective is to ensure plant and machinery is kept running at all times and serviced at regular intervals. Adhering to a scheduled maintenance plan to avoid breakdowns and ensure minimum downtime is maintained.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recommend and implement engineering and procedural improvements so as to achieve the above
• maintaining accurate and timely historical technical data.
• Involvement in engineering CAPEX projects
• Machinery and Plant servicing
• Preventative maintenance – routine cleaning and oiling etc.
• Dealing with breakdowns quickly and efficiently in order to keep production lines running
• Ordering parts
• Producing and updating paperwork
• Trouble shooting and modifying production equipment to improve quality and output


Successful candidates should be able to demonstrate a broad understanding of manufacturing within a Quality Management System and its impact within an engineering department.

This challenging role requires a pro-active, solution based individual with good initiative and excellent commercial judgement. Results oriented with the ability to manage all aspects of fault identification through repair and monitoring of successes. Finally, they must possess an Engineering qualification or to have completed a fully time served apprenticeship.


In return we offer a salary of £29,094 per annum, 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday, pension and health care. This is a conventional shift pattern, which hours of work are from 6 am to 2 pm, Mon to Thu and Fri 6 am to 12 pm. This shift will alternate to Mon - Thu, 2 pm to 10 pm and Fri, 12 pm to 6 pm.