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Permanent

Shift Engineer

Hunter Selection
Sudbury
money-bag £55000 - £56500/annum Benefits
Posted: 12 August 2026 (Today)
Closing date: 11 September 2026
Ref: 225487506

Shift Engineer

Sudbury
-56,500 + Overtime

12hr Panama Days & Nights Shift (6-6)

Would you like to join a leading manufacturing business, part of a multi-million-pound group, that values itself on staff investment, training & development.

This site has a great culture, with brilliant staff retentions numbers, they are looking for an electrically biased maintenance engineer.

Benefits:- Private Pension, Life Assurance, 23 Shift Holidays, BUPA Healthcare Cashplan, Staff Benefits Card, Qualifications/Training, Car Tax Relief

Role & Responsibilities of a Shift Engineer:

  • Carry out both preventative and planned maintenance, both electrically & mechanically
  • Working on high-speed production, packaging and automated machinery
  • Dealing with conveyors, motors, gearboxes, sensors, electrical isolation, inverters, pneumatics, servo drives, control panels, pumps, compressors, steam & boiler systems
  • PLC - electrical fault finding on Siemens & Allen Bradley
  • SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding
  • Continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations and modification work
  • Be able to work mechanically on various pipework, fabrication & fault finding

Knowledge, Skills & Experience need to be a Shift Engineer:

  • Must be a multi-skilled engineer, electrically biased
  • City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is a minimum requirement
  • Must have worked in high-speed production - food, FMCG manufacturing environments
  • Completed a time-served apprenticeship
  • Minimum 5 years'' experience as an engineer in manufacturing
  • Beneficial to have City & Guilds 2391 Electrical Test & Inspection
  • PLC & SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding
  • Beneficial to have 17th or 18th Edition Electrical
  • Strong team player with a continuous improvement approach
  • A good level of mechanical skills - dealing with pipework, gearboxes, drives, pumps, etc
  • Able to follow P&ID, electrical & mechanical drawings

"To apply please email your CV / resume to [ (url removed) ]". - Chris Gumm - (phone number removed)

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

INDENM

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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