Maintenance Engineer

Job Role: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

Salary: Up to £60,000 depending on experience and shift pattern

Shift: Permanent nights - Monday to Friday or four on, four off

Overtime available

Are you an experienced Maintenance Engineer looking for a night-shift position with some genuine flexibility around how you work?

This Maintenance Engineer opportunity is based at a busy food-manufacturing site specialising in onion packing. The business is open to either a Monday-to-Friday night shift or a four-on, four-off pattern, allowing the exact arrangement to be discussed with the right person.

You’ll be the sole engineering presence during your shift, so this position needs someone experienced, dependable and comfortable making decisions without another engineer standing beside them.

The role

As the Maintenance Engineer, you’ll take responsibility for keeping the production and packing equipment running safely and efficiently throughout the night.

Responding to electrical and mechanical breakdowns

Completing planned preventative maintenance and servicing

Fault-finding across production and packing machinery

Reducing downtime and improving equipment reliability

Working closely with production to prioritise engineering requirements

Identifying recurring faults and supporting continuous improvement

Completing engineering records and maintenance documentation

Maintaining high standards of health, safety and food hygiene

What they’re looking for

The Maintenance Engineer they need will have strong multi-skilled maintenance experience within a manufacturing, production, food, FMCG or packaging environment.

Electrical and mechanical fault-finding experience

Experience maintaining automated production or packing machinery

The ability to work independently and make confident decisions

A proactive approach to breakdowns, PPMs and equipment reliability

A recognised engineering qualification, apprenticeship or equivalent practical experience

The flexibility to work permanent nights

What’s on offer?

This Maintenance Engineer position comes with:

£45,000-£60,000 depending on experience and agreed shift pattern

Paid overtime

31 days' holiday including bank holidays

Salary sacrifice pension scheme

Health Cash Plan

Life assurance and income protection

Training, development and mentoring opportunities

Retail, supermarket and holiday discounts

Electric car and Cycle to Work salary sacrifice schemes

A Great Place to Work accredited employer

The site is based in Ramsey and is commutable from Peterborough, Huntingdon, March, Chatteris, Whittlesey, St Ives and the surrounding Cambridgeshire area.

This role may also suit a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, Shift Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer or Engineering Technician.

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