Ernest Gordon Recruitment Limited
Maintenance Engineer (Manufacturing)
Cockburnspath
£47,000 – £57,000 + Overtime + Structured Training + Career Progression + 4 On 4 Off Shift Pattern
Are you a Maintenance Engineer or similar looking for a highly rewarding role with excellent earning potential, plenty of overtime, and a clear pathway to increase your salary through ongoing training and development?
Do you want to join a growing and well-established business where you'll work on a wide range of machinery, solve technical challenges daily, and play a key role in keeping a modern production facility running at peak performance?
On offer is a fantastic opportunity to join a market-leading vegetable washing, grading, and packing facility that invests heavily in its engineering team through structured training, career progression, and long-term development. With a starting salary of £47,000, increasing to £57,000 through training, alongside overtime opportunities, this role offers both immediate rewards and future growth.
This role would suit a Maintenance Engineer or similar with electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills, ideally from a manufacturing, FMCG, food production, or industrial background, who is looking to develop their career within a supportive and forward-thinking engineering team.
In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving site machinery, responding to breakdowns, carrying out planned maintenance, and supporting continuous improvement projects across a busy and technically varied production environment.
The Role
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance across production machinery
- Diagnosing and repairing mechanical and electrical faults
- Working a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern
- Day shift: 6am to 6pm
- Opportunities for overtime and ongoing training
- One annual night-shift rotation during December (approximately three weeks)
- Seasonal back shift (Autumn, Winter & Spring): 12:00pm – 12:00am
The Person:
- Maintenance Engineer or similar background
- Strong electrical fault-finding skills
- Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, food production, or industrial environments (Preferred)
- Electrical qualification (Preferred)
Reference Number: BBBH25120H
Keywords: Multi-Skilled Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, FMCG, Food Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Production, PPM, Breakdown Engineer, Electrical Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders
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