Maintenance Engineer

Role: Maintenance Engineer

Location: North London

Shifts: 2 days 2 nights 4 off

Salary: £55,000 - £60,000, Overtime, progression and more

ATA Recruitment is pleased to be partnering with a market-leading manufacturer that operates across four UK locations. Their North London site serves as the flagship facility and plays a crucial role in the company’s ongoing success.

Generating an annual turnover of over £50 million, the organisation supplies many of the UK’s top supermarkets, restaurants, hotels, and cafés, offering strong job stability as a well-established business founded in the early 1990s.

The site delivers a high-quality, end-to-end manufacturing process, making use of bespoke machinery throughout. While some areas are highly automated, the facility also relies on specialist, hand‑crafted equipment to provide intricate finishing touches and design features, ensuring a consistently premium final product.

They are currently seeking a Maintenance Engineer for their North London site following the appointment of a new General Manager. This individual is focused on strengthening the engineering team and increasing headcount to help establish a more proactive maintenance approach. Over time, this will create opportunities for engineers to become more involved in improvement projects, continuous improvement (CI) activities, and wider site development, rather than working solely in a reactive maintenance environment.

• Be responsible for reacting to breakdowns on site and performing PPMs on all machinery on site
• Maintaining all machinery onsite including process machinery, packaging machines, Conveyors, Mills, Metal detectors and more
• Mechanical day to day tasks including Bearings, Rollers, Belts, Gearboxes, Shafts, Pulleys and more
• Electrically working on Cont actors, relays, Three phase motors and more

• A recognised engineering qualification
• To be able to work as part of an team but also be comfortable lone working when needed to
• Experience working in a fast paced environment (FOOD desirable)
• Comfortable working safely but efficiently electrically and mechanically

• An annual salary of between £55,000 - £60,000 per annum
• Potential progression route up into an Engineering Manager role over time
• A pension contribution from my client
• Onsite training
• Chance to gain exposure and looking into projects and CI work
• Security within your role working with a well established company