Shift Maintenance Engineer, Packing Centre

Salary: £52,000

Location: Lacock, Wiltshire

Working Hours: 4 on4 off, 07.00am - 19.00pm / 19.00pm - 07.00am

Stonegate Farmers Ltd has an exciting opportunity for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join the Engineering team within our Packing Centre.

Reporting to the Shift Lead, you’ll play a key role in keeping our production operation running efficiently. From planned preventative maintenance and fault finding to repairs and continuous improvement, you’ll work closely with Production to minimise downtime, improve equipment performance and maintain high standards of safety and food manufacturing compliance.

As our Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer, you will:

• Carry out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across production equipment.
• Diagnose faults and carry out effective repairs to minimise production downtime.
• Work across a range of mechanical systems, including grading machinery, hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, pumps and shaft drives.
• Ensure planned engineering tasks are completed on time and in full.
• Work closely with Production colleagues to maximise plant and equipment efficiency.
• Maintain the CMMS system, ensuring all maintenance activity, repairs, breakdowns, planned work and associated records are kept accurate and up to date.
• Complete and close out maintenance tasks within the CMMS in a timely manner, providing a clear and accurate record of work undertaken.
• Support continuous improvement and cost-reduction initiatives across the operation.
• Monitor spare parts and contingency stock, highlighting any potential shortfalls.
• Support the installation and commissioning of new equipment.
• Follow good engineering, repair and manufacturing practices.
• Ensure compliance with food safety, Health & Safety and relevant manufacturing standards, including HACCP and GMP.
• Support Process Technicians where required and maintain high housekeeping standards through our Clean As You Go approach.

Requirements

We’re looking for an engineer who is practical, proactive and comfortable working within a busy production environment.

Ideally, you will have:

• A City & Guilds or NVQ Level 3 in Engineering, or an equivalent qualification.
• Previous engineering or maintenance experience within a food manufacturing or production environment.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing equipment and automated production/process lines.
• Good mechanical fault-finding and maintenance capabilities.
• Knowledge of PLCs, automation and control circuits.
• Experience using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS).
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A proactive approach to identifying faults and improving equipment reliability.
• The ability to work collaboratively with Engineering and Production colleagues.

Most importantly, you’ll demonstrate our values of Respect, Aspire, Courage, One Team and Diversity in the way you work.