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Multi-skilled Engineer - Permanent Nights
East London / Essex Border | £55,000 + Bonus | 4 on 4 off

Looking for nights that pay, a role where you're trusted to run the shift, and a business that's growing around you? This is it.

A well-established food manufacturer is building up its engineering team and needs a strong Multi-skilled Engineer to look after the site overnight.

This isn't a big corporate setup where you're one name on a rota.

You'll be hands-on, trusted, and the person the site relies on to keep everything running.

The Role

You'll work 4 on 4 off, 12-hour nights, with half the year off the clock.

Each night is different:

• Leading the response to breakdowns and getting lines back up quickly


• Diagnosing electrical and mechanical faults across production and packaging equipment


• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance to keep reliability high


• Supporting wider site maintenance and facilities tasks


• Working closely with production and hygiene teams and helping operators get the best from their machines


• Driving continuous improvement and making your mark on how the site runs

You'll be working with conveyors, ovens, heat sealers, checkweighers, motors, drives, pumps, pneumatics, control panels and PLC-controlled equipment.

What You'll Bring

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical and/or Mechanical Engineering


• Strong electrical fault-finding skills, including three-phase, motors, drives and control systems


• Solid mechanical knowledge


• A background in food, FMCG or fast-paced manufacturing


• Night shift experience and the confidence to make decisions on your own


• A can-do attitude: you take ownership and get stuck in wherever you're needed

Bonus points for: 18th Edition, PLC experience, PAT testing or facilities maintenance.

What's on Offer

• £55K


• Up to 10% annual bonus


• holiday, including bank holidays


• Private medical insurance


• Company pension with a salary sacrifice option


• Ongoing training and development, both in-house and external


• Cycle to Work Scheme