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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer – Melton Mowbray
📍 Location: Melton Mowbray
💷 Salary: £50,900 - £56,900 (incl. shift allowances, DOE)
🎁 Benefits:
- + £2,500 welcome bonus
- Performance Bonus & distinctive benefits package
- 12-hour shift pattern (7 days on, 7 days off, 2 days off, 4 free days)
About The Role
At Melton, we pioneer innovation in high-speed food processing. This opportunity is an invitation to innovate, grow, and make an impact in a fast-paced, dynamic technical environment.
Key aspects of working here:
- Work with cutting-edge tech, including ABB/Kuka robotics, Allen Bradley PLCs, and predictive maintenance tools.
- Collaborate in a supportive, progressive culture that empowers continuous improvement and teamwork.
Responsibilities
Your primary focus will be:
- Reducing repair times through technical expertise and problem-solving.
- Supporting technical facilitation, training, and leadership to minimise:
- Downtime
- Waste
- Quality issues
- Safety risks
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Core duties include:
- Fault-finding & problem-solving across diverse equipment.
- Delivering maintenance activities to ensure seamless transitions between production and maintenance.
- Conducting risk assessments and drafting method statements for safe work execution.
- Identifying parts for purchases and procuring necessary goods/services.
- Resolving breakdowns within shift timelines.
- Performing Level 1 problem-solving, including component failure analysis.
- Logging breakdowns/known jobs in Atlas.
Requirements
Essential:
- Qualifications:
- Minimum Higher National Certificate or Diploma in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Practical industrial experience to complement qualifications.
- Specialised expertise in Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) environments.
- Proven ability to:
- Solve technical issues using root cause analysis.
- Use Microsoft Excel, PI Process Book, and SAP Planned Maintenance.
- Proficiency in risk assessment and change control processes.
- Experience leading:
- Root-cause fault finding investigations.
- Sustainable technical improvements.
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Benefits
You’ll thrive in Mars’ pioneering work environment with: ✅ £2,500 welcome bonus paid in first-week salary ✅ Onsite hot food restaurant ✅ Career growth through structured paths (e.g., Mars Prospective Learning) ✅ Comprehensive benefits, including:
- Private healthcare
- Equal parental leave
- Up to 9% contributions to company pension
- £4x salary life assurance
- EV salary sacrifice scheme
- Free gym membership & health support ✅ Generous annual leave: Starting at 24 days, increasing to 32 days with tenure, plus free onsite parking
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