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<...