Multi Skilled Engineer- Night Shift

Princes Group; Sutton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company is seeking a Multi Skilled Engineer for their Long Sutton site. This night shift position focuses on maintaining operations, ensuring safety, and promoting continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have a relevant engineering apprenticeship and experience in FMCG manufacturing. This role provides benefits such as a pension plan and flexible holiday options.

Benefits

22 shifts annual leave

14.5% pension

Flexible holiday option

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Learning & development opportunities

Qualifications

• Recognised engineering apprenticeship, ideally multi-skilled.
• Experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment.
• Ability to read technical manuals and engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Maintain site assets for operational efficiency and compliance.
• Record work on PPMs, breakdowns, repairs, and modifications.
• Promote continuous improvement within manufacturing.

Skills

Problem solving techniques

Good interpersonal skills

Advanced diagnostic skills

PC literacy

Education

Completed engineering apprenticeship

NVQ Level 3 or above

Tools

CMMS (preferably SAP)

Job description

Vacancy Name Multi Skilled Engineer – Night Shift

Employment Type Permanent

Country United Kingdom

Location Long Sutton

Business Area Operations

Workplace Type Onsite

About Princes The Princes Group has over 7,000 employees with offices and production sites in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Poland, France and Mauritius. Princes manufactures 350 different food and drink products responsibly sourced and enjoyed by consumers every day. None of this would be possible without striving to be an employer of choice, where our colleagues are proud to represent our business.

Role Description We are seeking talented Engineers to join our dynamic team at our Long Sutton manufacturing site. This role operates on a night shift schedule, following a 2‑2‑3 shift pattern with 12‑hour shifts from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM. Nightshift Week 1: Monday–Tuesday 18:00‑06:00, Friday–Sunday 18:00‑06:00. Nightshift Week 2: Wednesday–Thursday 18:00‑06:00. The purpose of this role is to maintain the site assets to achieve optimum operational efficiency, statutory and customer compliance whilst complying with all H&S requirements.

Principal Responsibilities

Safety, Quality, Hygiene

• Ensure that when carrying out all duties, due regard to own safety and that of others is always considered.
• Strict adherence to all H&S work policies e.g. Lock‑out and Tag (Isolation of all energy sources when undertaking any work) and Use of the “Permit to Work/Enter” system.
• Carry out duties ensuring the site achieves and maintains required GMP standards.
• Ensure all work conforms to statutory & safety requirements.
• Ensure that risk assessments are completed and actioned.
• Support a culture that enhances behavioural awareness to reduce accidents and near misses.
• Reducing customer complaints and wastage through effective maintenance and continuous improvement.
• Maintain product Food Safety, Legality, Integrity, Authenticity and Quality standards by ensuring all associated policies and procedures are adhered to.

Operations Management

• With Area Coordinator establish clear objectives and priorities to enable manufacturing to meet operational targets.
• Responsible for recording work carried out with regards to PPMs, breakdowns, repairs and modifications. Taking ownership for issues to ensure follow‑up is carried out and the original issues are closed off.
• Assist with training and support other departments in general running of the factory.
• Identify own training needs and with manager agree a time plan for achieving this.

Continuous Improvement

• Promote and comply with 5S and GMP and other continuous improvement tools to identify areas for improvement to enhance quality, safety, efficiency and waste reduction.
• Continually review performance, identifying and implementing opportunities to improve performance.

Communication

• Ensuring that both verbal and written communication is succinct and accurate i.e. handovers/end/start of shift reporting.
• Communicate with Engineering and Manufacturing teams daily ensuring work status reporting is concise.
• Communicate as required with Engineering Stores to ensure that spares are available for planned and breakdown maintenance.

Experience Required

• Have completed recognised and relevant engineering apprenticeship and NVQ Level 3 or above (or equivalent), preferably a multi‑skilled apprenticeship.
• Ideally experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment.
• PC literate.
• Experience of using CMMS preferably SAP.
• Worked within a regulated environment and used Permit to Work systems and dynamic risk assessments.
• Has a good working knowledge of and uses problem solving techniques such as fault finding and root cause analysis to close out actions to a permanent fix.
• Ability to read & understand technical manuals and engineering drawings.
• Advanced diagnostic skills, mechanical, electrical, PLC and process.

Key Behavioural Indicators

• Good interpersonal skills. Able to quickly develop good working relationships across shift and functional departments.
• Creative problem solver, able to analyse problems and opportunities and determine the most appropriate course of action to rectify.
• Able to put forward robust proposals in an open and honest environment, embracing and involving people across the whole shift.
• Provide support and direction for factory management and engineering teams to enable the teams to operate to the best of their abilities.
• Good communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels without complex jargon.
• Self‑motivated and enthusiastic.
• Able to work as part of a team as well as on own initiative and independently and is flexible.

Benefits

• 22 shifts annual leave.
• 14.5% pension – 5% employee opt‑in / 9.5% employer.
• Flexible holiday option – buy 5 additional days.
• Enhanced family‑friendly policies & carers leave policies.
• Critical illness cover.
• Learning & development opportunities.