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Permanent

Maintenance Engineer

Hunter Selection
Cambridge
money-bag £46000 - £48000/annum Benefits
Posted: 16 July 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 15 August 2026
Ref: 225381665

Maintenance Engineer
Cambridge

Monday-Friday 8am-5pm + 1 in 3 Week Call Out Rota

-48,000 + Overtime

Our client is a leading food manufacturer that is part of a larger European Group. Due to an up and coming retirement, they are looking for a maintenance engineer, to join their close knit team.

Role & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supporting PPM''s and reactive maintenance across all site production & packaging machinery, site services & facilities
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding, problem solving and repairs
  • New machinery installations, project work
  • PLC - electrical fault finding
  • Worked on conveyors, mixers, baggers, production lines, packaging machinery, elevators, metal detectors, stitchers, labellers, scanners
  • Fixing motors, gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, chains, sprockets, control panels, sensors, safety circuits, pumps, blowers, hydraulics

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

  • Open to either electrical or mechanical biased engineers, but must have electrical fault finding capabilities
  • Must be comfortable working in a small team, flexible to working a call out rota
  • Ideally have completed a time-served-apprenticeship
  • Level 3 qualified or higher in engineering
  • Electrical & mechanical fault finding skills
  • Must have previously have worked in fast-paced manufacturing, ideally food / FMCG
  • PLC - electrical fault finding
  • Mechanical fabrication, fitting, and welding skills would be beneficial
  • Must have worked with pneumatics & hydraulics
  • Ideally have a varied career, comfortable working at heights and in confined spaces
  • 17th or 18th Edition
  • Able to work unsupervised

If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours, please presume you are unsuccessful.

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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.

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