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Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

Maintenance Engineer
Leicester
£55,500
4 on 4 off (2 days, 2 nights) – 14 Days Off every 5 rotations

Benefits

  • 15% combined pension (9% Employer, 6% Employee)
  • Excellent work-life balance – 14 days off every 5 weeks on top of working 4 on 4 off – Work approximately 144 shifts a year!
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • 7X Death in service
  • On site trainer including PLC training (Allen Bradley)


We are looking for a maintenance electrician with strong PLC knowledge at our fully automated production site in South Leicester. We employ over 7000 people in over 20 countries worldwide with revenue in excess of £2 billion over the last 12 months. We are now looking to expand our shift electrical team at our site in Leicester.

We have a couple of major projects coming up over the next 12-18 months adding 2 brand new fully automated production lines – This is an opportunity to be involved in installations and commissioning of those as well as carrying out planned and reactive maintenance on 3 existing fully automated lines in a state-of-the-art production facility.

Day to day your role will include planned and reactive maintenance on 3 automated production lines comprising of bespoke machinery such as punch presses, cupping presses (400t), body makers, internal bake ovens (IBOs) as well as a number of bespoke servos.

The Successful Engineer

  • Proven background as a maintenance electrician in an industrial environment – This role is an entirely electrical position.
  • Strong level of PLC knowledge – Minimum strong fault finding and modification skills
  • Ideally Level 3 minimum qualification in an electrical maintenance discipline
  • Ability to read electrical drawings
  • Ideally prior experience within an FMCG environment – Not a dealbreaker



If this role is of interest contact Matt Morson at Stirling Warrington.

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Published on 10/06/2025

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