Senior Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Days)
Location: Eye, Suffolk
Salary: £53,000 per annum
A leading FMCG food manufacturer is recruiting for a Senior Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team at a modern, high-care production facility in Suffolk.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role, suited to an experienced multi-skilled engineer who enjoys fault-finding, improving asset reliability, and supporting site-wide engineering standards within a regulated food manufacturing environment.
The Role
- Planned preventative, predictive, and reactive maintenance across site assets
- Electrical and mechanical fault-finding, including PLC-controlled systems
- Supporting equipment upgrades, installations, and continuous improvement projects
- Use of CMMS systems to manage PPMs, breakdowns, and maintenance records
- Supporting food safety, hygiene, and health & safety compliance (BRC environment)
- Liaising with contractors and supporting engineering projects
What Were Looking For
- NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical, Mechanical, or Multi-Skilled Engineering
- Proven experience in FMCG or food manufacturing
- Strong fault-finding ability across electrical and mechanical systems
- Experience with PLCs, control systems, pneumatics, and heavy machinery
- Familiarity with planned maintenance systems and CMMS
- Comfortable working in a high-care, regulated environment
- 18th Edition, food safety, IOSHH, or similar qualifications are advantageous but not essential
Why Apply?
- Days-based senior engineering role
- Modern, well-invested FMCG manufacturing site
- Opportunity to influence reliability and engineering standards
- Long-term stability within a growing business
- Competitive £53k salary for the local market
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.
