At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain machinery, ensure safety, and drive continuous improvements in manufacturing processes.
- Company: Join Nestlé Purina, a leader in pet care with a commitment to sustainability.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous holidays, pension scheme, and professional development opportunities.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace culture with a focus on diversity and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on pet welfare while growing your engineering skills.
- Qualifications: NVQ 3 or equivalent in mechanical and electrical engineering required.
The predicted salary is between 56602 - 61001 £ per year.
Salary: £56,602 - £61,001 per annum depending on experience (including shift premium)
Shifts: 4 days on 4 days off shift pattern, days and nights
Some of our fantastic benefits:
- Comprehensive pension scheme – up to 12% employer contribution
- Potential, discretionary annual bonus
- Generous holiday entitlement
- A focus on professional development and growth
Are you a Multi‑Skilled Maintenance, Shift, or Reliability Engineer eager to showcase your skills in a role that allows you to excel? We are recruiting for a multi‑skilled Shift Engineer to join our reliability maintenance engineering team at Nestle Purina, Wisbech. If you are passionate about making a significant impact in your next career move, this opportunity may be perfect for you.
Your Impact:
As a Maintenance Engineer you will be instrumental in maintaining the operational efficiency of our manufacturing processes. Your role will focus on ensuring that machinery is in optimal condition, fostering a safe work environment, and driving continuous improvements. You will collaborate closely with various teams to enhance productivity and uphold the highest quality standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Machine Maintenance: Maintain the basic condition of the machines within your line and perform improvement activities, as well as repairing breakdowns.
- Safety Culture: Drive a safe culture and eliminate safety risks within the workplace.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that all products are manufactured according to quality standards.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous excellence and improvements in key operational business processes throughout manufacturing.
- Collaboration: As a key member of the Maintenance Working Groups (MWG), collaborate with the Autonomous Working Groups (AWG-production teams) to drive improvements using tools such as inspections, abnormalities identification, centerlining, breakdown analysis, and preventive and predictive maintenance.
Your ingredients for success:
To be successful as a multi‑skilled shift engineer, you will need a foundation of experience in both mechanical and electrical engineering, along with a commitment to safety and quality. Other key attributes include:
- Engineering Qualification: Educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 or hold a recognised engineering qualification in both mechanical and electrical engineering.
- Continuous Improvement: A passion for continuous improvement and the ability to implement enhancements in processes.
- Preventative Maintenance: Knowledge of planned preventative asset maintenance practices.
- Problem‑Solving Skills: Familiarity with root cause analysis tools and problem‑solving methodologies.
- Lean Manufacturing: Understanding of lean manufacturing tools, including Total Productive Maintenance (TPM).
- Mechanical Comprehension: Proven mechanical comprehension and awareness of food safety and food handling standards.
- Hygiene and Safety Compliance: Ability to understand and adhere to strict hygiene rules and safety compliance standards.
What we need you to know:
Advert closing date for this role: Friday 31/07/2026. We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.
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