Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer - Nights

Ramsey, Cambridgeshire | Salary up to £55,000 | 4 on 4 off | 3pm - 3am

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer | Manufacturing | FMCG | Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance

Are you an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Shift Maintenance Engineer or Senior Maintenance Engineer looking for more responsibility, autonomy and the opportunity to make a real difference?

We're recruiting for a well-established, successful manufacturing business offering a salary of up to £55,000
, a 4 on 4 off shift pattern and an excellent benefits package.

This is an opportunity to become the senior engineering presence on shift
, taking ownership of maintenance, breakdowns, fault finding and plant reliability within a busy production environment.

You’ll have the freedom to make decisions, support other engineers and introduce improvements that genuinely impact engineering performance.

• Salary up to £55,000

• 4 on 4 off shift pattern – 3pm to 3am

• Flexibility around shift start and finish times for the right candidate

• Great Place to Work accredited employer

• Salary sacrifice pension scheme

• Health cash plan

• Life assurance and income protection

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

• Cycle to Work scheme

• Retail, supermarket, cinema, holiday and entertainment discounts

• Training, mentoring and professional development opportunities

• Onsite health checks, wellbeing support and annual flu jabs

• Employee referral scheme

Working within a fast-paced manufacturing and production environment, you’ll be responsible for ensuring machinery, equipment and site services operate safely and efficiently.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll act as the key engineering contact on shift, combining hands-on mechanical and electrical maintenance with responsibility for prioritising engineering activities and improving plant performance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out electrical and mechanical fault finding
  , diagnostics and repairs on manufacturing equipment

• Responding to machinery breakdowns and minimising production downtime

• Completing planned preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance

• Acting as the senior engineering point of contact during your shift

• Supporting and guiding other engineers and coordinating maintenance priorities

• Identifying recurring equipment failures and conducting root cause analysis (RCA)

• Improving machinery reliability, equipment efficiency and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)

• Maintaining accurate maintenance records using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

• Supporting engineering projects, new machinery installations and continuous improvement activities

• Working closely with production teams to reduce breakdowns, waste and operating costs

• Supporting engineering stores and spare parts management

• Maintaining high standards of health and safety, including PUWER, LOLER and DSEAR compliance

We’re keen to hear from experienced engineers who enjoy solving problems, taking ownership and working in a busy manufacturing environment.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• Experience as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Shift Engineer or Senior Maintenance Engineer

• Strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills

• Experience maintaining manufacturing machinery or automated production equipment

• A background in food manufacturing, FMCG, production, packaging or general manufacturing

• Experience with preventative maintenance, reactive breakdowns and machinery reliability

• Knowledge of PPM, CMMS, root cause analysis and continuous improvement

• Previous experience in a senior engineering, supervisory or shift leadership…