Electrical Shift Engineer

Location: Oswestry Rural

£53,000  Shift Allowance  Excellent Benefits 3 on / 3 off | Rotating Days & Nights | 6am6pm / 6pm6am A well-established packaging manufacturing site is looking to strengthen its engineering team with the addition of a Multi-Skilled Engineering Technician at its highly automated production facility This is an excellent opportunity to join a large-scale manufacturing operation where engineering reliability and fast response times are critical to maintaining production performance and customer service levels.

The successful candidate will be a strong electrically biased engineer with experience working within fast-paced FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process environments.

The Role Working as part of a busy engineering function, you will be responsible for maintaining, fault finding, repairing, and improving a range of automated production and packaging machinery across the site. Youll play a key role in reducing downtime, improving machine performance, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the operation.

Key Responsibilities Attending machinery breakdowns and carrying out effective fault finding Completing planned preventative maintenance activities Diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults on automated equipment Supporting continuous improvement and engineering projects Assisting with machinery upgrades, installations, and commissioning Working closely with production teams to maximise equipment reliability Ensuring all engineering activities are completed safely and efficiently Maintaining maintenance records and engineering documentation

What Were Looking For We are keen to speak with engineers who have strong electrical maintenance experience gained within a fast-moving manufacturing or FMCG environment. Ideal Background Time-served Multi-Skilled Engineer / Maintenance Engineer / Shift Engineer Strong electrical fault-finding skills Previous experience within FMCG, packaging, manufacturing, or process industries Apprentice trained, NVQ, City & Guilds, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification Experience working with automated production or packaging machinery Ability to fault find on PLC-controlled equipment Siemens S7 PLC experience would be highly advantageous Knowledge of drives, sensors, relays, motors, pumps, valves, conveyors, and control systems Comfortable working within a fast-paced production environment Good communication and problem-solving abilities Benefits Salary circa £53,000 3 on / 3 off shift pattern offering excellent work-life balance Company pension scheme Life assurance Ongoing training and development Long-term career progression opportunities S table and growing manufacturing business Supportive engineering team and modern production environment