Maintenance Engineer

Are you a problem solver with a passion for keeping things running smoothly? Join our team as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, where every day presents a new challenge and an opportunity to make a real impact. You'll be at the heart of our operations, ensuring that our equipment is always in peak condition and that our production never skips a beat.

If you're driven by precision, thrive under pressure, and take pride in your ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly, this is the perfect role for you.

Multi‑Skilled Maintenance Engineer (either bias) – Bridgwater, Somerset

£61,376

Overtime paid at X1.5

4 on 4 off, 12‑hour shifts, days and nights. 24/7 shift pattern, Average of 42 hours per week

• Manufacturer training
• Career development planning
• Supportive team of engineers/engineering managers
• Life assurance
• Enhanced holiday allowance
• Free online medical support
• 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, activites 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 up and running to its highest capacity, and working as part of a well‑regarded, focused maintenance team. You will support both planned and reactive maintenance work throughout our factory on various state‑of‑the‑art equipment including pallet wrappers, shrink wrappers, conveyors, check weighers, palletizers, packaging machinery, processing systems, specialist food processing machinery, silos, pumps, pipework, etc.

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

• L3 engineering qualification or time served.
• Multi‑skilled background – either biased.
• Be confident enough to put forward new ideas and suggestions.
• Be accurate in your daily tasks and duties, paying great attention to detail.
• Experience working on processing equipment: pipework, pumps, silos, turning equipment.
• Further skillset 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 our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.