Shift Engineer

Location: Thatcham, Berkshire
Salary: £48,375 per annum 
Shift: 11:00pm – 7:00am | 40 hours per week

Shift Engineer – Thatcham

Are you a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced manufacturing environment?

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a skilled Shift Engineer to join an established and successful manufacturing business in Thatcham. Working as part of the engineering team, you’ll play a key role in keeping a high-volume production site running safely, efficiently and reliably.

You’ll be responsible for planned and reactive maintenance, fault finding, repairs and engineering improvements across a wide range of modern production and packaging equipment.

This is a hands-on role where your mechanical and electrical expertise will directly contribute to reducing downtime, improving equipment reliability and keeping production moving.

The Role

As a Shift Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across site machinery and equipment.

• Responding to breakdowns and carrying out effective fault finding and repairs.

• Diagnosing both mechanical and electrical faults.

• Supporting the reliability and continuous improvement of production equipment.

• Working across multiple production lines, B2B vessels and cooking vessels.

• Ensuring maintenance work is completed safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

• Supporting engineering projects and equipment improvements.

• Maintaining accurate engineering records and documentation.

• Working closely with production teams to minimise downtime and maximise output.

Sector: Manufacturing

What We're Looking For

Essential:

• Experience as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer / Shift Engineer.

• A recognised engineering qualification such as City & Guilds, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent.

Desirable:

• Previous experience within a manufacturing or production environment.

• Experience working with automated production lines.

• Knowledge of continuous improvement and engineering improvement projects.

• Experience using CMMS systems and completing engineering documentation.

The Company

You’ll be joining an established manufacturing business with a strong reputation within its industry.

The company operates multiple UK sites and supplies a diverse range of products to major retailers, restaurants and commercial customers.

The Thatcham site is a high-volume manufacturing facility, operating modern production and packaging equipment, with continued investment in engineering, reliability and site development.

What's on Offer?

• £48,375 salary including 7.5% shift allowance

• Company pension scheme.

• Life insurance.

• Health and wellbeing programme.

• Gym membership.

• Cycle to work scheme.

• On-site parking.

• Canteen facilities.

• Company events.

• Discounted/free food.

• Store discounts.

• Sick pay.

• 23.5 days' holiday plus bank holidays, with additional days provided when working bank holidays.

• Opportunity to work on engineering projects and further develop your technical skills.

Interested?

If you're a Multi-Skilled Engineer with strong mechanical and electrical experience and you're looking for your next opportunity as a Shift Engineer, we'd love to hear from you.

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For further details, contact Nathan Lock at Pioneer Selection.

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