Role: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Crick, Northamptonshire (NN6 7AF)

Shift: 4 on, 4 off, (rotating days and nights, 12-hour shifts)

Salary: £53,182.99 (including shift allowance) plus bonus

Are you a skilled Maintenance Engineer looking for your next challenge? Could you help us to produce nourishing, high-quality food for pets?

The Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you'll use your mechanical and electrical expertise to maintain and enhance the performance of our production plant and equipment. You will play a key role in ensuring our production lines run smoothly and efficiently, providing vital support to production teams and factory services. Your responsibilities will include diagnostics, fault-finding, planned preventative maintenance, and helping train production staff in first-line maintenance.

You’ll also:

Perform diagnostics and fault-finding on both mechanical and electrical systems

Keep accurate records of all maintenance activities, ensuring any downtime is logged and methods for reducing this are explored

Support production teams to ensure all equipment operates efficiently and to a high standard

Maintain GMP standards for food processing, keeping the site audit-ready

Collaborate with the engineering team to ensure that machinery is properly maintained and all health and safety standards are adhered to

Key Responsibilities

Ensure a safe working environment by complying with all statutory safety, health, and environmental requirements

Log and monitor repair times, continually finding ways to improve

Offer engineering support to production to keep operations running at optimal performance

Train and develop production staff to carry out first-line maintenance tasks safely and efficiently

About You

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have a strong background in both mechanical and electrical maintenance. A time-served apprenticeship or equivalent qualifications are essential, alongside experience in a similar fast-paced manufacturing environment—ideally within the food sector.

Key qualifications and experience we’re looking for include:

Electrical and mechanical qualifications with at least 3 years of maintenance experience

Strong knowledge of PLC systems (Siemens S7, S5, Allen Bradley)

Competence in fault-finding and analysis, both electronically and mechanically

A proactive and self-managing attitude, able to work both independently and as part of a team

Additional Benefits:

Employee discount on Butcher’s Pet Care products

Subsidised staff canteen

Access to High Street discounts

Cycle to Work scheme

Pension contribution and access to a Pensions Advisor

Free on-site parking

At Butcher’s Pet Care, we pride ourselves on producing nourishing food for pets. Join us and play a key part in keeping our operations running smoothly and efficiently. Apply now to be part of a company that values your contribution and offers opportunities for growth!

We may close this vacancy early if we receive enough applications. If you're interested, please apply as soon as possible