Location: Nicholas & Harris, Salisbury
Shift: 4 on, 4 off - 6AM until 6PM
Salary: Competitive with Opportunities for Growth
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Engineering team as a Multi-Skilled Engineer at our Nicholas & Harris site, part of Finsbury Food Group.
Nicholas & Harris has over 180 years of heritage in craft baking methods. If you enjoy artisanal and speciality breads, our Salisbury bakery is home to some of the UK's most recognised bakery products. As we continue to invest in our site, technology and people, there has never been a more exciting time to join the business.
The Multi-Skilled Engineer will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and continuous improvement of our manufacturing operation. Living by the Finsbury Food Group values of Teamwork, Ownership, Communication, Honesty, and Respect, you'll work as part of a skilled Engineering team to maximise equipment availability, minimise downtime and support the delivery of safe, high-quality products to our customers.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to develop their career with one of the UK's leading speciality bakery businesses. At Finsbury Food Group, we are passionate about investing in our people and creating genuine opportunities for progression across both site and group-level operations.
To succeed in this role, you'll be a qualified Multi-Skilled Engineer with experience within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. Experience within food manufacturing would be highly advantageous. If you're looking for your next challenge and enjoy solving problems, driving improvements, and making a real impact, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
This is what you’ll actually do!
As a Multi-Skilled Engineer, you'll be responsible for maintaining a wide range of production equipment and site services, ensuring the bakery continues to operate safely, efficiently, and reliably.
You'll carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), respond to breakdowns, complete corrective maintenance activities and support installation and improvement projects across the site. Working both independently and collaboratively, you'll diagnose faults, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions to minimise disruption to production.
A key part of the role will be supporting the bakery's performance by reducing downtime and improving equipment reliability. You'll use your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to quickly respond to issues while contributing to longer-term continuous improvement initiatives.
You'll be responsible for accurately recording maintenance activities through our Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), ensuring work orders, materials and labour are captured correctly. You'll also support the development of maintenance standards, equipment performance monitoring and engineering best practice across the site.
Working closely with Operations and Technical teams, you'll help drive a proactive maintenance culture, ensuring equipment operates safely and efficiently while supporting the site's ambitious growth plans.
Success in this role will be measured through:
- Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) completion.
- Work order completion and quality.
- Equipment reliability and downtime reduction
- Health & Safety compliance
- Continuous improvement contribution
- Effective root cause analysis and problem resolution
As a 24/7 manufacturing operation, flexibility and a proactive approach are essential. You'll play an important role in supporting emergency maintenance requirements while continually looking for opportunities to improve performance, reliability, and efficiency.
Ideally this is you!
- Qualified Multi-Skilled Engineer with recognised engineering qualifications.
- Experience within a manufacturing environment (food manufacturing desirable).
- Strong fault-finding and diagnostic skills across electrical and mechanical systems.
- Excellent communication and teamworking skills.
- Ability to work independently and make sound decisions under pressure.
- Self-motivated with a proactive approach to maintenance and continuous improvement.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to high standards.
- IT literate with experience using maintenance management systems.
- IPAF qualification and/or 18th Edition Wiring Regulations qualification desirable but not essential.
What's in it for you?
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!
- Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
- Death in Service Benefit
- Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
- Retail discounts accessible via our Benefits Hub platform!
- Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
- Refer a Friend Scheme (up to £300 per referral – t&cs dependent)
- Employee Recognition Awards· Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
- An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation. Head over to our LinkedIn page to find out more!
Our vision is to be the leading specialty bakery group in the UK and we want the best people in place to achieve this. Our continued success is built entirely on the talented people who work here, so employee development is important to us because everyone is a valued member of the team, and we want every individual to have the skills and capabilities to achieve both your own personal goals and our business goals. We want good people to join our company, to help our company continue to go from strength to strength. If this sounds like you, please get in contact to learn more!
