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MaintenanceEngineer

Bakkavor
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Nov 2025
💰 £55,000/yr

About the role

Maintenance Engineer

 

We rise to challenges together

 Salary – Up to £55,000 per annum plus a £1,500 signing on /joining bonus (Terms and Conditions Apply) 

Benefits - Staff Shop, Stakeholder Pension Scheme, Discount & cashback platform  

Location- Tilmanstone, Kent

Fully site based

 

Shift Pattern- 4 on 4 off Days & Nights rotating 6am -6pm / 6pm- 6am

Contract Type – Permanent

 

 

Why join us?  
  

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do

In our Tilmanstone Salads site we produce first class Salad’s products including leafy salad bags, leafy salad bowls, takeaway salad meals, prepared vegetables & side dishes for one of our most prestigious customers in our state-of-the-art factory. 

About the role

 We have a fantastic opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join our expanding team and site.   

 
The Maintenance Engineer will conduct planned and predictive maintenance to prevent issues occurring. Your role will lead or support the operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups. Working with other teams, you will contribute to technical performance reviews and continuous improvement activities. Our Maintenance Engineers work as part of a team or standalone, depending on the task. The role reports to the Engineering Teams Manager 

 

Role Accountabilities

  •  Conduct planned maintenance of processing and packaging assets. 
  • Conduct predictive maintenance of food processing and packaging assets (condition-based monitoring). 
  • Respond to breakdowns. 
  • Conduct reactive maintenance or corrective actions to resolve deviation. 
  • Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) and action as required. 
  • Lead or support operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups. 
  • Manufacture and repair component parts for processing and packaging assets. 
  • Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise assets or processes. 

 

About you

 

  • Engineering apprenticeship (C&G / EAL NVQ Level 3 / 4 or OAL FDEM Diploma) 
  • Current Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (C&G Level 3, achieve within 12 months). 
  • Application of Safety, Health and Environmental legislation and procedures 
  • Planning works and writing reports. 
  • Verify assets meet performance criteria after work. 
  • Reading and adhering to site SOPs. 
  • CMMS experience (achieve within 12 months). 
  • Electrical bias  
  • Experience in the following would be advantageous – Mechanical principles, F&D assets, welding, machining, turning, hydraulic, pneumatic & thermodynamics systems and / or, electrical principals, motors, motor control circuits, motion control, encoders, PLCs, sensors. 

 

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

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