Shift Engineer; Multiskilled​/Electrical Bias

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Shift Engineer with a strong electrical bias to join our engineering team at the Kinmel site. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy hands‑on fault finding, preventative maintenance, and driving equipment reliability within a fast‑paced manufacturing environment.

Pay: £23.33 per hour plus a shift allowance of £2.35 per hour. Working 42.9 hours per week on a 2 days/2 nights/4 off rotation pattern (12‑hour shifts on rotation).

• Perform planned preventative and predictive maintenance across a range of mechanical equipment and complete breakdown repairs in a timely manner to minimise downtime.
• Carry out mechanical fault finding, repair and continuous improvement activities across production and site machinery.
• Support installation, commissioning and modification of mechanical systems and equipment.
• Assess the need for spares, ensuring the critical spares list is up to date and stock is at the required levels.
• Escalate any issues in a timely manner to the Engineering Manager.
• Ensure a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities with minimal risk to employees, products and equipment – champion safety.
• Use root cause analysis on breakdowns to identify actions and drive completion of actions to prevent re‑occurrence.
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed.
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive improvement throughout the site.

• Qualified or time‑served in electrical engineering disciplines.
• Mechanical knowledge or multi‑skilled experience is advantageous.
• Strong electrical fault‑finding and maintenance experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in the use and operation of CMMS (Shire).
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level – desirable.
• Legionella and HACCP awareness – desirable.
• Experience in FMCG manufacturing – desirable.

• Overtime.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and pawturnity.
• Pension: NEST with 4.5% employee and 3.5% employer contributions (salary sacrifice).
• Free parking and free electric car charging.
• Spotify or Netflix subscription.
• Hertility.
• Discounted products and free hot drinks.
• Medicash Plan.
• Choice of non‑contractual flexible benefits, e.g. discounted pet food.

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition is committed to building an inclusive workplace that reflects the diversity of our colleagues and communities. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.