Salary: £44k per year + Overtime
Reference: 67050
MULTI-SKILLED MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
Job Title: Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Accrington, Lancashire
Salary: £44,000
Shift: 6–2 / 2–10 (1 weekend in 6)
A great opportunity has opened for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established, fast-paced FMCG manufacturing site. This business is currently investing in improving its engineering standards and is looking for motivated engineers who want to make a real impact on site performance and reliability.
Working within a large engineering team, you will play a key role in ensuring production equipment runs safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. This is an ideal role for an engineer who thrives in a hands-on environment and is keen to drive improvements.
You will be responsible for carrying out electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault-finding, and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on a range of high-speed production and packaging machinery.
Sector – Factory Maintenance (FMCG)
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to schedule
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Respond to breakdowns and perform rapid fault diagnosis
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Maintain and repair production and packaging equipment
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Record all maintenance activity to support asset history and reliability
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Work to high engineering and safety standards, including food-safe practices
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Support continuous improvement initiatives across the site
- Conveyors, belts, bearings, and chains
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Packaging machinery
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Drives, sensors, inverters, and motors
Typical faults include:
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Conveyor breakdowns and jams
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Faulty sensors causing stoppages
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Oven temperature issues
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Packaging machine misfeeds
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Pneumatic failures
- Multi-skilled maintenance experience in a manufacturing/factory environment
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Engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)
- Experience within FMCG or food manufacturing
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Exposure to high-volume production machinery
- Working for a stable and growing manufacturing business
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Opportunity to influence and improve engineering standards
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Supportive leadership focused on development and progression
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Company pension
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25 days holiday + bank holidays
