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Shift Engineer

Hunter SelectionHolme, Biggleswade🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 1 Jun 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
£54k/yr
Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Shift Engineer Biggleswade £54,000 + Overtime + 5% Bonus 12hr Panama Shift - Days & Nights Benefits:- Up to 10% Match Pension, X4 Life Assurance

BUPA Healthcare

21 Shifts Holiday (Rising with service)

24/7 EAP, Staff Discounts Platform, Enhanced Parental Policies Do you want to work for a leading food manufacturers that is going through a lot of progressive growth with the UK's supermarkets. Due to expansion within the team, they are looking for shift engineers to join. Role & responsibilities of a Shift Engineer: Carry out planned preventative, predictive and breakdown maintenance of all high-speed production & packaging machinery

Working on control panels, HMi's, PLC's, SCADA Systems

Electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving and repairs

Continuous improvement projects

Dealing with motors, VSD's, servo drives, pneumatics, gearboxes, bearings, shafts, inverters

Mechanical fabrication, fitting, welding Knowledge, skills & experience need to be a Shift Engineer: Multi skilled engineer - ideally electrically biased

NVQ Level 3 engineering or maintenance minimum

Ideally HNC / HND qualified - time-served-apprenticeship

Must have worked in some form of fast-paced / Food / FMCG manufacturing industry

Strong electrical & mechanical problem solving skills

Knowledge of PLC's, automation & control systems, HMi's

Worked on motors, inverters, VSD's, sensors, switches, pneumatics, gearboxes If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours please presume you are unsuccessful. If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'. Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors. Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business

Skills

SCADA

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