Multi Skilled Preventative Maintenance Engineer in Sheffield

Multi Skilled Preventative Maintenance Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Multi Skilled Preventative Maintenance Engineer to join our Engineering Team at Fletchers Bakeries, part of the Northern Cluster within Finsbury Food Group. Our Fletchers bakery has over 125 years of baking tradition, with our Kara bakery supplying delicious wholesale bakery products for over 35 years, starting with the first floured bap. Both bakeries have been part of Finsbury Food Group since 2014. Fletchers Bakery can trace its roots back to 1895, and today our product portfolio includes gourmet brioche, traditional sliced bread, bloomer breads, and vegan and gluten‑free options, to name just a few.

The Role

As a Preventative Maintenance Engineer, you will play a critical role in delivering a proactively planned preventative maintenance programme across site assets. Your focus will be on reducing unexpected breakdowns, improving equipment reliability, and extending asset life, all while supporting production efficiency and food safety standards. Working closely with the Reliability Manager and Engineering Scheduler, you will ensure planned maintenance activities are effectively coordinated with production schedules and planned shutdowns.

This is what you’ll actually do!

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance activities to strict schedules
• Prepare for maintenance work by coordinating parts, tools, and resources in advance
• Develop strong working knowledge of bakery process systems and machinery
• Work as an active member of a skilled, cross‑functional planned maintenance team
• Support installation, modification, and improvement projects on plant and equipment
• Ensure full compliance with Health & Safety, Food Safety, and Hygiene standards at all times
• Actively contribute to a Continuous Improvement culture, supporting the site Operating Brilliance Process (OBP)
• Identify opportunities to improve equipment reliability, efficiency, and reduce waste
• Assist in the training and development of fellow engineers, operator‑technicians, and colleagues
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping and good engineering practices

Ideally this is you!

• Previous experience in plant or engineering maintenance
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a team
• A thorough, detail‑oriented approach to maintenance work
• Literate and numerate, with basic PC skills
• Flexible and reliable, with excellent timekeeping and attendance

Mechanical Engineering qualifications or experience

• Apprentice trained
• Machining skills or experience
• IPAF trained
• FMCG or food manufacturing experience

What’s in it for you?

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards
• Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in‑house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
• Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!

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