At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide engineering support to keep production equipment running smoothly and efficiently.
- Company: Established food manufacturer with a supportive engineering culture.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 23 days annual leave, health support, and structured progression.
- Other info: Join a collaborative team where your impact is visible and valued.
- Why this job: Enjoy a predictable 4 on, 4 off shift pattern with substantial time off.
- Qualifications: Electrical training and practical mechanical maintenance experience required.
The predicted salary is between 38700 - 47300 £ per year.
Yolk Recruitment is representing an established and well-invested food manufacturer in the search for an electrically biased Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer looking for a permanent days-based shift. You will work a consistent 4 on, 4 off patterns from 10:00am to 10:00pm, joining an experienced and supportive engineering function within a busy manufacturing environment. There can be some flexibility around start and finish times at weekends, where agreed by the engineering team.
What You'll Do:
- Provide reactive engineering support to keep high-volume production equipment running safely and efficiently.
- Complete planned preventive maintenance across production and site services equipment.
- Diagnose electrical and mechanical faults, carrying out effective repairs to minimise disruption.
- Work with equipment including processing machinery, pasteurisation systems, boilers, and associated utilities.
- Support basic plumbing, mechanical strip-downs and general engineering activities when required.
- Record and manage maintenance activity through a computerised maintenance management system.
- Make the most of planned production downtime by completing maintenance, repairs, and equipment improvements.
- Work closely with another engineer on shift and communicate effectively with production and wider site teams.
- Follow robust health, safety, hygiene, and food manufacturing procedures always.
What You'll Bring:
- Electrical training or qualifications, supported by practical mechanical maintenance capability.
- Previous experience as a Maintenance Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer, Electrical Engineer or similar.
- Confidence fault-finding and repairing industrial machinery.
- Experience completing both planned and reactive maintenance.
- Manufacturing experience, ideally gained within food, beverage, FMCG, pharmaceutical or another regulated production environment.
- A practical, inquisitive approach and the willingness to develop new technical skills.
- The ability to work safely in and around production machinery, including accessing confined or awkward equipment areas.
- Experience with boilers, processing equipment, pasteurisation systems, or industrial utilities would be beneficial, but is not essential.
Why You Should Apply:
This position offers a particularly attractive shift pattern for engineers who want the benefits of a 4 on, 4 off schedules without switching between days and nights. Your standard hours will be 10:00am to 10:00pm, giving you predictable working days and substantial time away from work. You will be joining a site with experienced lead engineers, strong engineering coverage and a culture that takes health, safety, and fatigue management seriously. The business operates an established engineering structure, with engineers supported by lead engineers and engineering management.
The wider package includes:
- Salary from £40,000 up to £48,000, reflecting your current skills and experience.
- Clear salary reviews and the potential for structured progression as your capabilities develop.
- Approximately 23 days' annual leave for the shift pattern.
- Employer pension contribution of 5%, with a 3% employee contribution.
- Health and wellbeing support, including money back towards dental and optical costs.
- Three times annual salary life assurance.
- Holiday buying and selling options.
- Company sick pay that increases with length of service.
- Accredited technical training, with opportunities covering areas such as boilers, working at height and other relevant engineering skills.
- Occasional voluntary overtime paid at time and a half.
The site benefits from significant backing and continuing capital investment while retaining the collaborative atmosphere of a smaller operation where colleagues know one another and engineers can have a visible impact.
Ready to Apply? If you are an electrically trained engineer who enjoys solving problems, working with a wide variety of equipment, and having four consecutive days off, this could be an excellent next move. Contact Jacob Purcell to find out more. Please apply with a CV and a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role.
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Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) in London employer: Yolk Recruitment Limited
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