Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer – Bridgwater, Somerset

Refresco Bridgwater, England, United Kingdom

£61,376

4 on 4 off, 12‑hour shifts, days and nights

• Career development planning
• Supportive team of engineers/engineering managers
• Life assurance
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Free online medical support
• Premium overtime rate (1.5x of your basic salary)
• Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes flexible benefits such as healthcare plans, dental plans, car schemes, activities pass and much more!
• State‑of‑the‑art facility with lots of variety

You will be an integral part of your team, ensuring the factory is kept running at its highest capacity and working as part of a focused maintenance team. You will support both planned and reactive maintenance work throughout our factory on a variety of state‑of‑the‑art equipment including pallet wrappers, shrink wrappers, conveyors, check weighers, palletisers, packaging machinery, processing systems, specialist food‑processing machinery, silos, pumps, pipework, etc.

• Work closely with the Engineering Team Leader, responsible for delivering a high‑quality Engineering service.
• Rapidly diagnose and resolve mechanical, electrical, basic control and instrumentation faults.
• Complete a full range of maintenance activities across the installed asset base within your work area.
• Continuously work to improve performance to deliver site efficiency and performance standards.
• Get involved with factory improvement projects.

We are looking for an experienced maintenance engineer with a multi‑skilled engineering background (either biased). You must hold a minimum L3 qualification in an engineering discipline or be time‑served. Candidates from an FMCG/food background would be highly desirable, however, we will consider candidates from other backgrounds. Ex‑military are welcome to apply.

• L3 engineering qualification or time‑served
• Multi‑skilled background – either biased
• Confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions
• Accurate in daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail
• Experience working on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment
• Further skill‑set overview: fault finding in panels, sensors, relays, inverters, drives, motors, pumps, pneumatics, and pipework
• Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for brands and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. It offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. The company continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve product quality and packaging in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and has more than 13,500 employees.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Management and Manufacturing

Food and Beverage Services