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Maintenance Engineer

Job in Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB21, England, UK
Listing for: Hunter Selection
Full Time, Seasonal/Temporary, Contract position
Listed on 2026-07-16
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Manufacturing Engineer, Automation & Mechatronics Engineer, Electrical Engineering
  • Manufacturing / Production
    Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Manufacturing Engineer, Automation & Mechatronics Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 48000 GBP Yearly GBP 48000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Cambridgeshire

Maintenance Engineer
Cambridge

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm + 1 in 3 Week Call Out Rota

£48,000 + Overtime

Our client is a leading food manufacturer that is part of a larger European Group. Due to an up and coming retirement, they are looking for a maintenance engineer, to join their close knit team.

Role & Responsibilities:

Responsible for supporting PPM's and reactive maintenance across all site production & packaging machinery, site services & facilities
Electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving and repairs
New machinery installations, project work
PLC - electrical fault finding
Worked on conveyors, mixers, baggers, production lines, packaging machinery, elevators, metal detectors, stitchers, labellers, scanners
Fixing motors, gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, chains, sprockets, control panels, sensors, safety circuits, pumps, blowers, hydraulics

Knowledge,

Skills & Experience:

Open to either electrical or mechanical biased engineers, but must have electrical fault finding capabilities
Must be comfortable working in a small team, flexible to working a call out rota
Ideally have completed a time-served-apprenticeship
Level 3 qualified or higher in engineering
Electrical & mechanical fault finding skills
Must have previously have worked in fast-paced manufacturing, ideally food / FMCG
PLC - electrical fault finding
Mechanical fabrication, fitting, and welding skills would be beneficial
Must have worked with pneumatics & hydraulics
Ideally have a varied career, comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces
17th or 18th Edition
Able to work unsupervised

If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours, please presume you are unsuccessful.

Code: INDENM

If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business
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