Maintenance Engineer
Job description
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MULTI-SKILLED MAINTENANCE ENGINEER
Job Title: Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Location: Accrington, Lancashire
Salary: £44,000
Shift: 6–2 / 2–10 (1 weekend in 6)
A great opportunity has opened for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established, fast-paced FMCG manufacturing site. This business is currently investing in improving its engineering standards and is looking for motivated engineers who want to make a real impact on site performance and reliability.
Working within a large engineering team, you will play a key role in ensuring production equipment runs safely, efficiently, and with minimal downtime. This is an ideal role for an engineer who thrives in a hands-on environment and is keen to drive improvements.
You will be responsible for carrying out electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault-finding, and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on a range of high-speed production and packaging machinery.
Sector – Factory Maintenance (FMCG)
Key Responsibilities- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM) to schedule
- Respond to breakdowns and perform rapid fault diagnosis
- Maintain and repair production and packaging equipment
- Record all maintenance activity to support asset history and reliability
- Work to high engineering and safety standards, including food-safe practices
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across the site
- Conveyors, belts, bearings, and chains
- Packaging machinery
- Drives, sensors, inverters, and motors
Typical faults include:
- Conveyor breakdowns and jams
- Faulty sensors causing stoppages
- Oven temperature issues
- Packaging machine misfeeds
- Pneumatic failures
- Multi-skilled maintenance experience in a manufacturing/factory environment
- Engineering qualification (NVQ Level 3 or equivalent)
- Experience within FMCG or food manufacturing
- Exposure to high-volume production machinery
- Working for a stable and growing manufacturing business
- Opportunity to influence and improve engineering standards
- Supportive leadership focused on development and progression
- Company pension
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
Key skills
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⭐ Highlight your multi-skilled maintenance experience prominently as the advert emphasises this throughout the job description
📊 Quantify your PPM achievements: 'Completed 95% of scheduled PPM tasks, reducing unplanned downtime by 22%'
🔧 Showcase specific equipment experience with conveyors, packaging machinery, and pneumatic systems mentioned in the role
🏭 Emphasise any FMCG or food manufacturing background as this is listed as highly desirable
📜 Ensure your NVQ Level 3 or equivalent engineering qualification is clearly visible as this is non-negotiable
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- •Executed planned preventative maintenance schedules across 15 high-speed production lines, achieving 98% completion rate and reducing unplanned downtime by 28%
- •Diagnosed and resolved conveyor breakdowns within 45-minute target response time, maintaining production efficiency for 24/7 FMCG manufacturing operation
- •Implemented continuous improvement initiatives on packaging machinery, reducing sensor-related stoppages by 35% through systematic fault analysis
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Pioneer Selection's Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer position in Accrington represents exactly the hands-on FMCG manufacturing challenge I'm seeking. My experience with planned preventative maintenance and fault diagnosis on high-speed production equipment aligns perfectly with your requirements for improving engineering standards and site reliability.
My background in multi-skilled maintenance within manufacturing environments has equipped me with the technical expertise to handle both electrical and mechanical systems, from conveyors and packaging machinery to pneumatic systems and sensor troubleshooting.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Describe your approach to diagnosing a conveyor jam that's causing production stoppages
- ›How would you prioritise multiple breakdown calls during a busy production shift?
- ›Explain the key considerations when maintaining equipment in a food manufacturing environment
- ›Walk me through your PPM process for high-speed packaging machinery
- ›What steps would you take to troubleshoot faulty sensors causing equipment stoppages?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you improved equipment reliability through your maintenance work
- ›Describe a situation where you had to work under pressure to resolve a critical breakdown
- ›Give an example of how you've contributed to continuous improvement initiatives
- ›Tell me about a time you had to work effectively within a large engineering team
- ›Describe a challenging fault-finding situation and how you resolved it
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Tell me about a time you improved equipment reliability through your maintenance work
Describe a situation where you had to work under pressure to resolve a critical breakdown