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Mechanical Maintenance Technician
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Business area: CPW (Cereal Partners)
Job Title: Mechanical Maintenance Technician
Location: Bromborough, Wirral
Shift: 42-hour work week - predominantly day-based shift pattern but with a requirement to do circa 36–42-night shifts in the year to cover holidays
Salary: Circa £58,000 (inclusive of shift allowances)
This is a one-year fixed term contract
Position Summary
We have a new opportunity for an experienced, mechanically biased engineer to join our maintenance team in Bromborough. Reporting into the System Engineer, the main purpose of the role will be to provide a safe, high-quality, cost-effective maintenance service to site assets including preventative, predictive and breakdown maintenance; to enhance people's and product's safety, product quality, protection of the environment and Operations performance.
At Cereal Partners UK, we have established ourselves as one of the largest cereal manufacturers in the UK, making many well-loved brands with a long heritage. Cereal Partners is a powerful alliance between Nestle and General Mills, producing some of the biggest names in breakfast cereals.
As a bright, forward-thinking company, we are always striving for new ways to develop and market better products, helping us to enhance the lifestyle of consumers and stay at the top of the highly competitive cereal category.
A day in the life of… a Mechanical Maintenance Technician
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include but will not be limited to:
- Root cause analysis of technical problems
- Providing both planned and reactive maintenance solutions across plant.
- Maintenance of packaging and process equipment
- Generation, completion and return of work orders.
- Participate and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
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What will make you successful?
We are looking for a Mechanically biased Engineer to fill this role. You will ideally be experienced within an FMCG environment. Other areas of experience will be considered but FMCG is preferred.
- Ideally you will have completed a time-served engineering apprenticeship or minimum ONC/HNC in Mechanical Engineering with demonstrated experience.
- Mechanically biased is essential for this role – competency in other engineering discipline is a bonus but must have bias towards mechanical.
- Good working knowledge of utilities (e.g. Gas; Water; Steam).
- Working knowledge of H&S, environmental and legislative requirements.
- Being conscious in role to maximise effectiveness of relationship between Engineering and Production to bring about performance improvements across the department, fostering teamwork.
- Ability to problem-solve and analyse. Committed to root cause analysis and proactive continuous improvement initiatives.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package.
Job advert closing date: Tuesday 25/08/2026.
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
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Right to work in the UK
In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. We have assessed this role and do not consider that we would be able to sponsor a successful candidate under the Skilled Worker route as the role does not meet the relevant Home Office criteria; the successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their own right to work during the recruitment process without Nestlé sponsorship.
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