Multi - Maintenance Engineer

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Salary: £50,900

Shift Pattern: 4 on, 4 off (rotating days and nights, 6am-6pm / 6pm-6am)

The Opportunity

We are working with a well-established manufacturing business seeking an experienced Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join its engineering team. This role offers the opportunity to work within a highly automated production environment, supporting specialist manufacturing and processing equipment while operating with a high degree of autonomy.

The successful candidate will join a close-knit engineering function consisting of shift engineers and supervisors, providing both reactive and planned maintenance to ensure maximum equipment availability and production efficiency.

This position would suit a mechanically biased engineer with strong electrical fault-finding skills and experience maintaining complex manufacturing or process machinery.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance across a range of specialist manufacturing equipment.
• Diagnose and resolve mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic faults.
• Maintain and repair extrusion and process-related machinery, conveyors, pumps, heating circuits and associated production equipment.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives aimed at improving reliability, efficiency and machine uptime.
• Assist with installations, upgrades and commissioning activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis following equipment failures.
• Ensure maintenance activities are completed safely and in line with company procedures.
• Accurately record maintenance work and equipment history.
• Work closely with production teams to minimise downtime and maximise operational performance.

Candidate Requirements

• SVQ/NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in an Engineering discipline.
• Strong mechanical maintenance background with solid electrical fault-finding capability.
• Experience working on hydraulic systems, pumps, conveyors and automated manufacturing equipment.
• Knowledge of PLC-controlled machinery and the ability to carry out fault-finding and parameter adjustments.
• Ability to work independently and make decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong problem-solving and diagnostic skills.

Preferred Backgrounds

Applications are particularly welcomed from engineers with experience in:

• Plastic extrusion
• Plastic manufacturing
• Injection moulding
• Packaging manufacturing
• Process manufacturing environments
• Heavy industrial manufacturing

Candidates whose experience is solely within FMCG, food production or bottling environments may find the transition more challenging due to the specialist nature of the equipment and mechanical systems involved.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary of approximately £50,900.
• 4 on, 4 off shift pattern.
• Stable engineering team with improved staff retention.
• Autonomous working environment.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Genuine progression prospects into supervisory positions.
• Opportunity to work on specialist manufacturing and process equipment.
• Private healthcare scheme.