Manufacturing Maintenance Engineer

This isn’t a traditional maintenance role.

You’ll be joining a live manufacturing environment where the focus is keeping production equipment running reliably, while also supporting improvements, equipment upgrades, and process optimisation.

This role suits a well-rounded multi‑skilled engineer who enjoys fault finding, problem solving, and getting hands‑on with a broad range of electrical, mechanical, and automated equipment.

Saffron Walden

£50,000 to £55,000 + Benefits

Full‑time, permanent (37.5 hours per week)

• Reactive and planned maintenance across production equipment and site systems.
• Electrical and mechanical fault finding.
• Supporting equipment reliability and uptime improvements.
• Working across automated machinery, conveyors, motors, drives, pumps, pneumatics, hydraulics, and control systems.
• PLC fault finding and minor modifications where required.
• Supporting process improvements and equipment upgrades.
• Assisting with new equipment integration and commissioning.
• Working closely with operations and engineering teams.
• Taking ownership of equipment performance within your area.

• Multi-skilled engineering experience within manufacturing.
• Strong electrical and mechanical fault finding capability.
• Experience supporting automated production equipment.
• Exposure to PLC-controlled machinery (Siemens ideal).
• Hands-on engineering mindset with strong problem-solving ability.
• Experience in FMCG, food, pharma, packaging, medical devices, or process manufacturing would be beneficial.

• Varied hands‑on engineering role
• Good mix of maintenance + improvement work
• Exposure to specialist manufacturing processes
• Stable day-based working hours
• Opportunity to make a genuine impact in a smaller engineering team