Shift Engineer - Electrical

Shift Engineer - Electrical

Company: INSPIRED pet nutrition

• Annual salary of £59,981
• 42 hours per week, 4 on 4 off (Days and Nights 12 hour shifts on rotation)
• Hourly rate with overtime - Paid monthly

IPN is an innovative, well‑established, and award‑winning pet food manufacturer, employing over 850 people across our 4 UK manufacturing sites. Our family of brands include Harringtons, Wagg, Barking Heads & Meowing Heads, AATU, Blink, Butchers, Classic Cat and a selection of partner brands that trust us to produce food on their behalf. Our kitchens in Thirsk, Kinmel and Crick produce dry, wet, and baked foods which are enjoyed by dogs and cats all over the world.

We are looking for an experienced Shift Engineer with electrical bias to join our Engineering team, based in our factory in Crick, Northampton.

To establish and maintain safe, compliant and effective engineering operations that continually develop the site’s asset base by following the Engineering strategy for proactive work whilst responding to breakdowns.

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and complete ad‑hoc repairs in a timely manner, prioritising works in line with site priorities to ensure efficient production.
• Assess the need for spares, ensuring the critical spares list is up to date and stock is at required levels; escalated any issues promptly 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 reoccurrence.
• 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 and Mechanical engineering disciplines.
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS.
• Reliability Management expertise (e.g., FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM).
• 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 – desirable.

• Overtime.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/pawturnity.
• Pension: NEST Employee contributions 4.5% / Employer contribution 3.5% – Salary sacrifice.
• Free parking, free electric car charging, Spotify or Netflix subscription, Hertility, discounted products & free hot drinks.
• Medicash Plan.
• Non‑contractual flexible benefits (e.g., ability to purchase heavily discounted pet food).

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing