Shift Maintenance Engineer

Shift Maintenance Engineer

Salary: £40,000 – £45,000 DOE

Hours: 42 hours per week average

Location: Rushden

Shift Pattern: 3 nights on, 2 days off, 3 days on, 12-hour shifts, 7 to 7

We are recruiting for a Shift Maintenance Engineer to join a tier-one packaging manufacturer within a fast-paced production environment. This is a hands-on, multi-skilled role focused on keeping machinery running efficiently, reducing downtime, and supporting continuous improvement across the site.

The successful candidate will carry out fault finding, reactive repairs, planned preventative maintenance and general site engineering work across electrical and mechanical systems. You will work closely with production and engineering teams to improve reliability, maintain safety standards and support TPM/OEE initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Fault diagnosis and repair of production equipment

Electrical and mechanical maintenance across site machinery

Planned preventative maintenance and TPM activities

Supporting improvements to machine efficiency and downtime reduction

General site maintenance and safety checks