Maintenance Engineer
5 days ago
Gainsborough
Multi-Skilled Engineer (Electrical Bias) Noble Foods (Gainsborough Poultry site) | Fast-paced FMCG Environment Are you a hands-on engineer who thrives in a busy production environment? Do you enjoy fault-finding, fixing problems fast, and keeping vital machinery running smoothly? If so, Noble Foods wants you on our engineering team. We’re looking for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer with a strong electrical bias and solid mechanical experience to help keep our high-volume poultry processing site operating safely, efficiently, and reliably. 🛠️ The Role Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving our production and site services equipment. This is a practical, varied role where no two days are the same. You’ll be: • Responding quickly to breakdowns and carrying out effective electrical and mechanical fault-finding, • Maintaining and repairing production machinery including conveyors, evisceration equipment, packing machines, and chillers, • Completing planned preventative maintenance and supporting continuous improvement, • Fault-finding on PLC-controlled systems, motors, drives, sensors, and control panels, • Carrying out mechanical work on gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, hydraulics, and basic fabrication, • Working closely with production and hygiene teams to minimise downtime, • Supporting shutdowns, installations, and site engineering projects, • Recording all work accurately using the site CMMS, • Ensuring all tasks meet strict food safety, hygiene, and health & safety standards 👷 ♂️ What We’re Looking For You’ll be a confident, safety-focused engineer who can think on their feet in a high-volume environment. Essential: • Recognised electrical qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent), • Multi-skilled engineer with a strong electrical bias, • Solid mechanical fault-finding experience in a manufacturing environment, • Good working knowledge of PLC fault-finding, motors, inverters, sensors, and control systems, • Experience with pneumatics and hydraulics, • Understanding of permit-to-work, isolation, and lock-off procedures Desirable: • Experience in food, FMCG, or poultry processing environments 📚 Training & Development We invest in our people. Depending on your experience, you’ll receive training in areas such as: • Health & Safety (IOSH Working Safely, behavioural safety, hazard reporting), • HACCP and food hygiene, • Safe systems of work, • Manual and mechanical handling, • Role-specific technical and process training 🎁 What’s in It for You? We offer far more than just a competitive salary: • Overtime opportunities, • Ongoing training and development, • Free hot drinks on shift ☕, • Free meal every day in our on-site canteen 🍽️, • Discounted eggs and chicken 🐔, • Enhanced maternity & paternity pay, • Free life insurance, • Enhanced sick pay scheme, • Perkbox benefits including monthly freebies from Greggs or Café Nero, • DigiCare+ access: Digital GP, annual health checks, mental health support & more, • Discounted gym memberships, • Free eye test every two years, • Discounted mobile phone contracts, • Annual bonus through our People Partnership (after 6 months), • Extra allowances for First Aiders & Mental Health First Aiders, • Wellness programme & Employee Charity Matching Scheme, • Celebration Day – enjoy an extra day off after one year’s service to celebrate a life event 🎉 🚀 Join Us If you’re an engineer who takes pride in keeping production moving and wants to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help power the future of Noble Foods, Gainsborough Poultry site.