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Maintenance Engineer - North Ayrshire

Meat - Engineering
Ref: 237 Date Posted: Friday 18 Oct 2019

We are Looking for a Maintenance Engineer to join one of the Uk’s largest manufactures of Meat.

The chosen Maintenance Engineer will possess strong communication skills and be comfortable working as part of a team. Must be able to carry out both planned and reactive maintenance including PPM’s, breakdowns, and repairs to a wide range of automated machinery.  

Key Accountabilities of the Maintenance engineer

  • Repair and maintain all site equipment
  • Undertake repair work or testing while completing the relevant documents
  • Record all maintenance work in either the log book or computer systems  
  • Be flexible with engineering colleagues by changing and sharing duties  
  • Directly work with the chief engineer to manager safety standards and compliance requirements
  • Uphold and enforce relevant systems of work required by statutory customer and factory requirements
  • Flexible approach to shift working to meet factory requirements
  • Have the independence and initiative to ensure that all breakdown and repairs are left to in a safe condition

The ideal Maintenance Engineer should possess: -

  • Experience working within the food industry or similar FMCG manufacturing environment
  • Time served electrician with 17th Edition Qualification
  • HND Level or above in relevant engineering Qualification
  • Complying with Health & Safety requirements for engineering and electrical work
  • Great team working abilities
  • The ability to fault find and undertake root cause analysis.
  • Good engineering practices to reduce the risk of product contamination


We are looking for a highly motivated, well organised Maintenance engineer with excellent communication and team working skills and a flexible approach to work to work a Monday to Friday role. With previous experience within a similar role/environment, you will demonstrate a sound knowledge and understanding of routine and preventative maintenance. This role won’t be a walk in the park but if you want to get real job satisfaction and grow along with a rapidly expanding company then this is your next step.