Multi-Skilled Engineer

Multi-Skilled Engineer

Location: Harlow

Salary: £52,000

Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off days

Benefits:

• 23 shifts holiday
• Employee assistance program
• Life assurance x4
• Enhanced pension
• Strong progression pathway toward management roles
• Continuous training, OEM courses, and technical development

About:

We're looking for an experienced multi-skilled engineer to join a high-performing food manufacturing site and play a key role in maintaining and optimising production performance. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer with experience in FMCG, food or packaging to get into a business who invest in the team, the site and you.

You'll lead a small on-shift engineering team, drive reliability, support continuous improvement, and ensure equipment uptime across fast-paced FMCG lines.

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside a team of 3 per shift
• Reactive and preventative maintenance
• Supporting planned, reactive, and preventative maintenance across production assets
• Ensuring full compliance with site H&S procedures (permits, RAMS, audits)
• Working with automation, packaging, and processing equipment (conveyors, robotics, weighing, vision systems, thermoformers, etc.)
• Working closely with senior engineering leadership to improve performance, downtime, and reliability
• Supporting training, skills gap development, and contractor management
• Balancing hands-on and hands-off duties depending on operational needs

Requirements:

• Multi-Skilled engineer with 5 years FMCG manufacturing experience
• Proven engineering experience within FMCG manufacturing, food or packaging production
• Level 3 or above in Engineering
• Electrical certification or qualification (18th Edition or others considered)
• PLC fault finding experience (I/O level)
• Good knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, sensors, motors, and inverters
• Strong communicator with good initiative and problem-solving ability

Good to Have:

• PLC programming exposure
• CI / improvement experience
• OEM liaison experience
• Health & Safety qualifications

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

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