Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

Wiltshire

Up to £58,000

Most maintenance roles have you firefighting the same breakdown for the third time this month. This one's about building something new instead.

This food manufacturer is investing heavily in its site right now, with six new production lines going in. That's not a small upgrade, it's a genuine step-change in what the site can do, and it means the person who takes this role gets in at the ground level: commissioning new kit, learning new automation and control systems, and picking up hands-on experience that most engineers only read about. If you're serious about where your CV goes next, this is the kind of project that gets noticed.

Day to day, you'll be doing the planned preventative maintenance across grading, packing and ancillary equipment, but the real value you bring is finding out why a machine keeps failing and fixing the root cause, not patching it for the third time. You'll be hands-on across conveyors, motors, pumps, gearboxes, hydraulics, pneumatics and automated production equipment, with genuine scope to get into robotics, PLC programming and process control. And with six new lines coming in, you'll be right in the middle of the installs and commissioning, not just watching from the sidelines.

You'll need to be apprentice-trained or time-served to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent (Electrical, Mechanical or Multi-Skilled), hold your 18th Edition wiring regs, and have solid experience in food manufacturing, FMCG or a similarly automated environment. Food safety training will be provided if you don't already have it, so don't let that put you off applying.

If you want a maintenance role where you're maintaining the status quo, this isn't it. If you want one where you're building the next phase of a growing site, get in touch.