Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: West Sussex
Salary: £40,000 £50,000 depending on experience and shift pattern
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Shift: Rotating shift pattern covering days and nights
Industry: Food Manufacturing / FMCG

• Competitive salary and additional shift-related pay
• Permanent position with an established UK manufacturer
• Modern, automated production environment
• Varied mix of breakdowns, planned maintenance and improvement work
• Opportunity to influence equipment reliability rather than constantly firefight
• Ongoing technical training and development
• Strong pension and employee benefits package
• Clear opportunities for longer-term progression

Found Food & Drink are looking to speak with experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineers regarding a permanent opportunity with an established high-volume manufacturer in West Sussex.

You will join a sizeable engineering function responsible for maintaining and improving automated production equipment across a busy, fast-moving site.

The role combines reactive breakdown support, electrical and mechanical fault-finding, planned maintenance and longer-term reliability improvements.

This is not purely a breakdown role. The business wants engineers who can get equipment running safely but will also investigate recurring faults, improve maintenance practices and help reduce avoidable downtime.

• Diagnose and repair electrical and mechanical faults across automated production equipment
• Respond quickly and safely to breakdowns, helping minimise disruption and downtime
• Complete planned and preventative maintenance tasks
• Identify recurring equipment failures and support root-cause investigations
• Recommend improvements to maintenance schedules, machinery and working practices
• Maintain production, processing, conveying and packaging equipment
• Support equipment installations, modifications and improvement projects
• Work with production teams to improve machine performance and availability
• Use the site s maintenance management system to record work and manage engineering tasks
• Maintain accurate shift records and provide clear engineering handovers
• Support the management of engineering parts and critical spares
• Work closely with production, hygiene, quality and health and safety teams
• Ensure all work meets food safety, GMP and health and safety standards
• Contribute to a more preventative, predictive and reliability-led maintenance culture

• Previous maintenance engineering experience within manufacturing
• A recognised engineering qualification at Level 3 or equivalent
• Practical electrical and mechanical fault-finding experience
• Electrical bias would be particularly useful, although genuinely multi-skilled engineers from either background will be considered
• Experience completing reactive breakdowns and planned maintenance
• Confidence reading technical drawings, wiring diagrams or schematics
• Able to work safely and make sensible decisions under pressure
• Comfortable working independently as well as part of an engineering team
• Good communication skills when dealing with production and other departments
• Able to record maintenance activity accurately using a CMMS or similar system
• Willing to work within a fast-paced, temperature-controlled production environment

Experience within food manufacturing or FMCG would be ideal, but engineers from other high-volume or highly regulated manufacturing environments will also be considered.

Relevant sectors could include:

• Food and beverage manufacturing
• Pharmaceutical or healthcare production
• Packaging
• Automated warehousing
• Automotive manufacturing
• Plastics
• High-volume production
• Other safety-critical engineering environments

• Root-cause analysis
• Continuous improvement
• Predictive or condition-based maintenance
• PLC fault-finding
• Hydraulics and pneumatics
• Automated production or packaging systems
• Refrigeration, compressed air or other site utilities
• Equipment installation and commissioning
• Improving existing PPM schedules

This is a rotating shift-based position covering both days and nights.

The full working pattern will be discussed during the initial conversation. Applicants must be comfortable working a rotation that may include weekends.

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Additional shift-related pay
• Employer pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Health and wellbeing support
• Employee assistance programme
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• On-site parking
• Ongoing technical training
• Career development opportunities

If you are a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for a stable position with a large manufacturing operation, apply now!

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Work Location: In person