Engineering Technician (Panama Shift)

Business area: Nestle Beverage

Location: Tutbury, Derbyshire

Salary: £52,964.00 (inclusive of shift allowance and contractual overtime)

Shift pattern: Panama shift pattern – 12 hour rotating days and night shifts (all bank holidays and weekends off)

Some of our other fantastic benefits:

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus.
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle.
• 18 bookable holidays per year (plus all weekends and bank holidays off).
• 2 paid volunteering days.
• A focus on personal development and growth.

We are looking for an experienced, competent and multi-skilled engineer, ideally coming from an FMCG background to report into the Asset Maintenance Manager. This role, whilst having both Electrical and Mechanical elements, will have a heavy Electrical focus. This will be wide ranging, but experience of Motors, Pumps and Electrical control systems will be advantageous. Experience of PLC systems will also be a positive.

As a business, Nestlé is keen to invest in developing our engineers. For this role, we would be keen to upskill electrically competent persons in Automation knowledge to further support the digitally focussed future.

Nestlé Tutbury Factory in Derbyshire is one of the largest Nestlé factories in Europe after a £250 million investment over the last few years. The factory produces several of the most well-known Nescafé products in the world through freeze-dried, spray dried, pod coffee production technologies and is at the forefront of coffee production globally.

We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity. We proudly signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, are committed to Disability Confidence, and have been recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for gender equality for three consecutive years. Additionally, we are a headline partner of Diversity and Inclusion in grocery.

Your impact:

Joining a highly skilled team of 5 other Shift Engineers, you will be responsible for first line reactive and planned maintenance of varied high speed packing equipment.

Your other key responsibilities will include:

• Proactive and Reactive fault finding and Maintenance of Motors, Pumps and Electrical control systems.
• Providing support for, and alignment with the Engineering Management Team.
• Driving break down analysis to continuously improve asset intensity and reduce unplanned stoppages.
• Effective communicating with all key stakeholders to ensure departmental goals/priorities are achieved.
• Supporting the departmental AMM strategy by continually seeking opportunities to revise and improve the PM03 plans and monitoring the M&I spend.

Your ingredients for success:

To be successful in this role you will already have significant experience as an Engineer within an FMCG manufacturing environment. It is essential for the successful candidate to be qualified up to NVQ Level 3 in an Engineering discipline.

Other key criteria:

• Ideal completed a time served multi-skilled apprenticeship to a minimum of NVQ level 3/City & Guilds/BTEC/HNC.
• Desirable - Have previous experience within an FMCG environment.
• Have a hands-on, practical approach to their work, along with a can-do attitude.
• Can work as a team delivering compliance in safety, quality, cost and performance.
• Be able to support the development of the team in line with the technical competency matrix and actively develop their own competencies in the department.
• Is competent in the use of GLOBE SAP systems and reporting.
• Will have good knowledge of TPM PM methodologies and a drive to implement these with the team.

What you need to know:

Advert posting date: 10/08/2026

Advert closing date: 24/08/2026

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.

Right to work in the UK:

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.