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Shift Engineer

Job description

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Deeside - Food Manufacturing | FMCG
4 on / 4 off (Days & Nights)
Permanent | 40 Hours

We're recruiting Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineers for a high-volume, 24/7 food manufacturing site in Deeside.

This is a proper engineering environment. Fast paced, heavily automated, and absolutely unforgiving if you switch off. If you like routine, this is not it. If you like solving problems under pressure and keeping production moving, you'll be busy from minute one.

You'll be joining a well invested FMCG site supplying major retail customers, with a strong engineering function and ongoing investment into reliability and equipment upgrades.

Rewards & Benefits

Let's start with what actually matters.

  • Competitive salary package
  • Market leading pension
  • Life assurance
  • Generous holiday entitlement
  • Colleague discount scheme
  • Flexible benefits platform
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Aviva Digital GP access
  • Wellbeing support via Vita Health
  • Employee assistance support services
  • Salary finance options
  • Family friendly policies and enhanced leave
  • Retail, leisure and lifestyle discounts
  • Recognition and reward schemes

What You'll Actually Be Doing

  • Planned preventative maintenance across production equipment
  • Fast response breakdown work under real production pressure
  • Electrical and mechanical fault finding across complex machinery
  • Supporting production changeovers and shift handovers
  • Driving reliability and reducing repeat failures
  • Working closely with production to keep downtime under control
  • Keeping maintenance records tight and accurate
  • Making sure safety and food standards are never optional

What You Need to Bring

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Engineering
  • FMCG or fast paced manufacturing experience
  • Strong mechanical and electrical fault finding skills
  • Experience with conveyors, motors, pumps, packaging or similar kit
  • A hands on, practical approach rather than theory heavy thinking
  • Ability to make decisions quickly when things go wrong
  • Understanding of food safety systems (HACCP) preferred
  • 17th Edition useful but not essential

What You Get Out Of It

  • Strong salary package
  • 4 on / 4 off shift pattern (built in rest days)
  • Pension and life assurance
  • Discount schemes across retail and lifestyle
  • Healthcare cash plan and GP access
  • Genuine engineering team on site, not just firefighting
  • Development and progression within a large FMCG group

This is not a quiet maintenance role. It's for engineers who like being in the middle of it, not watching it happen from a distance.