Bakery Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical Bias)
Location: Lochore
Hours: Full-time, permanent (4 on, 4 off shift 6am – 6pm, on-call one in every four weeks)
Salary: £48,000 - £50,000
Baynes the Family Bakers have a proud history serving local communities for over 70 years. We are entering an exciting phase of investment and expansion, with significant plans to enhance our production capability, improve reliability, and modernise our maintenance approach. As part of this journey, we are looking to recruit a Bakery Maintenance Engineer with a strong mechanical bias to join our growing engineering team.
The Role
This is more than a traditional “fix-it” maintenance role. You will be a key contributor to a forward-thinking engineering team, supporting day-to-day maintenance while also playing an active role in continuous improvement and site development projects.
You will help drive the transition from a reactive maintenance culture to a pro-active, planned, and reliability-focused approach, improving equipment performance, reducing downtime, and supporting future growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on bakery and production equipment
- Ensuring optimal performance and reliability of the production lines
- Diagnose and repair mechanical faults efficiently to minimise downtime
- Actively contribute to projects focused on:
- Line imprvements and efficiency gains
- Prcess improvements to enhance quality, safety, and output
- Develpment and optimisation of the maintenance programme to improve reliability
- Support the installation, commissioning, and improvement of new and existing equipment
- Work on equipment such as roll plant, mixers, ovens, provers, conveyors and fryers
- Assist with basic electrical fault-finding as part of a multi-skilled team
- Ensure all engineering activity meets food safety, health & safety, and compliance standards
- Accurately record maintenance activity using our CMMS system and support data-driven improvement initiatives
About You
- Time-served Mechanical Engineer or equivalent qualification
- Strong mechanical maintenance experience, ideally within bakery, food manufacturing, or FMCG
- Interest in continuous improvement and engineering-led problem solving
- Basic electrical knowledge advantageous
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced production environment
- Proactive, organised, and keen to help shape how maintenance is delivered
- A safety-first mindset that promotes and embraces safe systems of work
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and confidently
- Good level of IT skills with experience in a CMMS platform
- Flexible approach to working hours and site support
What We Offer
- Competitive salary, dependent on experience
- A secure, permanent role within a well-established and growing family business
- The opportunity to be part of a new and dynamic engineering team, with real influence over how systems, processes, and standards are developed
- Involvement in exciting expansion and improvement projects
- Colleague discount scheme, offering up to 50% discount
- Company pension and holiday entitlement
- Ongoing development and the chance to grow with the business
About Baynes the Family Bakers
Baynes the Family Bakers has been serving local communities for generations. While our values are rooted in tradition, we are investing heavily in the future—developing our people, our processes, and our production capabilities to support long-term growth.
