Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer – PM Shift
Location: Diss, Suffolk
Salary: £55,000
Were recruiting for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established FMCG food manufacturing site in the Diss area on a permanent PM shift.
This is a hands-on role for an experienced engineer who's confident fault-finding, keeping production running, and taking ownership of engineering issues during the late shift.
The Role
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across site machinery
- Fault-finding on electrical and mechanical systems, including PLC-controlled equipment
- Supporting improvements, upgrades, and installation work
- Identifying repeat faults and putting proper fixes in place
- Working safely and following food safety and hygiene standards
- Logging work and maintenance activity on the site CMMS
- Supporting contractors when required
What Were Looking For
- Strong hands-on experience as a maintenance or multi-skilled engineer
- Background in FMCG, food, or a similarly fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Confident electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills
- Experience with PLCs, control systems, pneumatics, and heavy machinery
- Comfortable working independently and taking ownership on shift
- Good communication skills and a practical, solutions-focused approach
- Electrical, mechanical, or multi-skilled qualifications preferred, but experience is key
Why Apply?
- Permanent PM shift, Monday to Friday
- Hands-on engineering role with responsibility on shift
- Stable, well-invested manufacturing site
- Opportunity to make a real impact on reliability and performance
- £55,000 salary
Synergi Recruitment provides bespoke UK-wide staffing solutions to the engineering, manufacturing and technical sectors across a wide range of industries including FMCG, distribution and automation. We work with some of the leading businesses across the UK.
We offer recruitment solutions to address resourcing need at all levels; covering permanent, contract and interim roles.
Our team of consultants has an in-depth understanding of the skills, attributes and experience needed for a variety of roles. We spend time understanding the businesses we work with and we use the latest software so we can match the right candidate to the right job.
Our specialist consultants are dedicated to supporting specific geographical regions across the UK allowing us to localise and tailor our services to meet the needs of both our clients and candidates.
