Maintenance Engineer Apprentice

Join our team as a Maintenance Engineer, keeping food production machinery running safely and efficiently. You'll carry out electrical and mechanical maintenance, fault-finding and repairs across a range of bakery equipment. We're looking for a proactive, flexible team player with a positive, can-do attitude

What you'll do

• Carry out planned and reactive maintenance on electrical and mechanical equipment.
• Diagnose and repair faults to minimise production downtime.
• Maintain and repair bakery and food processing machinery.
• Work on packaging, weighing, coding, mixing and robotic equipment.
• Complete routine inspections and preventative maintenance.
• Ensure machinery operates safely and efficiently.
• Complete maintenance records and paperwork accurately.
• Support production teams with machinery issues and breakdowns.
• Assist with maintaining health and safety standards.
• Provide flexible cover across a two-shift system, including evenings and weekends when required.

After the apprenticeship

Potential full-time role upon completion of apprenticeship.

Skills

• Initiative
• PC skills
• Team player
• Flexible
• Positive
• Self-motivated
• Can-do attitude

Qualifications

• Essential: GCSE, English (grade C/4)
• Essential: GCSE, Mathematics (grade C/4)

Things to consider

Good PC skills are preferred and the successful applicant will be required to ensure all maintenance paperwork is completed within agreed timescales.

About the employer

From humble beginnings to award-winning success, our journey has always been about doing things better - driven by quality, innovation, and customer experience.

Our family business, now in its fourth generation, carries on the tradition of baking biscuits with many of the same recipes created by our great grandmother, Annie Wild, over 100 years ago.

Apprenticeship details

• Course: Engineering maintenance technician - dual discipline (level 3), Engineering and manufacturing
• Apprenticeship level: Advanced (level 3)
• Training provider: LUMINATE EDUCATION GROUP
• Expected duration: 4 Years
• Hours: 40 hours a week. Working week: Monday to Friday. The company operates a two-shift system and may require cover for evenings and weekends.
• Start date: 15 November 2026
• Positions available: 1
• Wage: £16,640 to £26,436.80 a year