Career Opportunities: Maintenance Engineer, Night Shift (16209)

Role Overview 

As a key part of the Engineering team at Danish Crown's Bugle site, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of butchery, curing and sealing operations. You’ll help minimise production downtime through quick response times and proactive maintenance. 

Working a compressed 40-hour week over four days, reporting to the Engineering Shift Team Leader. This role involves working independently on three night shifts each week. To ensure a successful transition into the position, comprehensive training will be provided on day shifts for an initial period. The duration of the training will be tailored to the individual and will continue until they are confident and competent to work independently. 

What You'll Be Doing 

The successful candidate will: 

• Provide hands-on maintenance support across butchery, curing and sealing equipment, including fault finding, repairs and improvements. 

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance and inspections to maximise equipment reliability. 

• Work closely with Production, Hygiene and Quality teams to support production targets and line performance. 

• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety, GMP and HACCP requirements. 

• Maintain records within the CMMS system and contribute to initiatives that improve performance and reduce downtime. 

What You'll Bring 

Experience 

• Previous experience maintaining industrial production equipment, with particular strength in fault finding and problem solving, ideally with exposure to meat production, food processing or other fast-paced manufacturing environments. 

• Strong diagnostic and fault-finding experience across production machinery and automated equipment. 

• Experience working with drives, motors, sensors, controls and industrial machinery. 

• Experience responding to breakdowns, carrying out preventative maintenance and supporting continuous improvement activities. 

• Comfortable supporting both electrical and mechanical maintenance activities within a fast-paced production environment. 

Technical Skills 

• Recognised Engineering qualification in Electrical, Multi-Skilled or a related engineering discipline. 

• Strong fault-finding capability and a methodical approach to troubleshooting equipment issues. 

• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and documentation. 

• Experience working on processing, packaging or manufacturing equipment. 

• Knowledge of PLC-controlled equipment and automated systems would be advantageous. 

• Good understanding of preventative maintenance and equipment reliability practices. 

Personal Qualities 

• Positive and proactive attitude. 

• Strong communication and teamwork skills. 

• Calm under pressure. 

• Highly organised with good attention to detail. 

• Committed to maintaining high standards of safety, food quality and engineering excellence. 

Why Join Danish Crown UK? 

• Salary up to £51,000 depending on experience 

• 5% matched pension contribution 

• Life assurance worth 4x annual salary 

• Medicash health plan 

• 28 days holiday  

• Overtime paid at 1.5x rate when required 

• On-site parking provided 

• Staff discounts, staff sales and seasonal product giveaways 

• Regular scheduled Fridays off throughout the year as part of the shift pattern, creating additional long weekends and supporting work-life balance 

• Ongoing training and development opportunities 

• Career progression within a global food manufacturing business 

About us 

Danish Crown UK is a business built on trust, teamwork and ambition. We exist to deliver food that people believe in and we know that takes strong leadership and collaborative cultures. 

Our leadership principles guide us. We act for the good of the whole organisation. We hire brilliant people and help them grow. We are ambitious, curious and open to new ideas. We build trust by accepting mistakes as part of development. We believe real leadership is earned through example, not title. 

Whoever joins us will help create a workplace where people feel safe to speak up, share ideas, challenge old ways of working and stretch themselves to achieve more. If that sounds like the environment where you thrive, we would love to hear from you.