Job Description
Shift Engineer
Location: Thatcham, Berkshire
Salary: £48,375 per annum
Shift: 11:00pm – 7:00am | 40 hours per week
Shift Engineer – Thatcham
Are you a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced manufacturing environment?
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a skilled Shift Engineer to join an established and successful manufacturing business in Thatcham. Working as part of the engineering team, you’ll play a key role in keeping a high-volume production site running safely, efficiently and reliably.
You’ll be responsible for planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding, repairs and engineering improvements across a wide range of modern production and packaging equipment.
This is a hands-on role where your mechanical and electrical expertise will directly contribute to reducing downtime, improving equipment reliability and keeping production moving.
The Role
As a Shift Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across site machinery and equipment.
- Responding to breakdowns and carrying out effective fault finding and repairs.
- Diagnosing both mechanical and electrical faults.
- Supporting the reliability and continuous improvement of production equipment.
- Working across multiple production lines, B2B vessels and cooking vessels.
- Ensuring maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
- Supporting engineering projects and equipment improvements.
- Maintaining accurate engineering records and documentation.
- Working closely with production teams to minimise downtime and maximise output.
Sector: ManufacturingWhat We're Looking For
Essential:
- Experience as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer / Shift Engineer.
- A recognised engineering qualification such as City & Guilds, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.
Desirable:
- Previous experience within a manufacturing or production environment.
- Experience working with automated production lines.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement and engineering improvement projects.
- Experience using CMMS systems and completing engineering documentation.
The Company
You’ll be joining an established manufacturing business with a strong reputation within its industry.
The company operates multiple UK sites and supplies a diverse range of products to major retailers, restaurants and commercial customers.
The Thatcham site is a high-volume manufacturing facility, operating modern production and packaging equipment, with continued investment in engineering, reliability and site development.
What's on Offer?
- £48,375 salary including 7.5% shift allowance
- Company pension scheme.
- Life insurance.
- Health and wellbeing programme.
- Gym membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- On-site parking.
- Canteen facilities.
- Company events.
- Discounted/free food.
- Store discounts.
- Sick pay.
- 23.5 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with additional days provided when working bank holidays.
- Opportunity to work on engineering projects and further develop your technical skills.
Interested?
If you're a Multi-Skilled Engineer with strong mechanical and electrical experience and you're looking for your next opportunity as a Shift Engineer, we'd love to hear from you.
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For further details, contact Nathan Lock at Pioneer Selection.
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