Ernest Gordon Recruitment
Multi-Skilled Engineer (Manufacturing)
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Multi-Skilled Engineer (Manufacturing)
Cockburnspath
£47,000 - £57,000 + Overtime + Structured Training + Career Progression + 4 On 4 Off Shift Pattern
Are you a Multi-Skilled Engineer looking for a highly rewarding role with excellent earning potential, plenty of overtime, and a clear pathway to increase your salary through ongoing training and development?
Do you want to join a growing and well-established business where you'll work on a wide range of machinery, solve technical challenges daily, and play a key role in keeping a modern production facility running at peak performance?
On offer is a fantastic opportunity to join a market-leading vegetable washing, grading, and packing facility that invests heavily in its engineering team through structured training, career progression, and long-term development. With a starting salary of £47,000, increasing to £57,000 through training, alongside overtime opportunities, this role offers both immediate rewards and future growth.
This role would suit a Multi-Skilled Engineer with strong electrical and mechanical fault-finding skills, ideally from a manufacturing, FMCG, food production, or industrial background, who is looking to develop their career within a supportive and forward-thinking engineering team.
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In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving site machinery, responding to breakdowns, carrying out planned maintenance, and supporting continuous improvement projects across a busy and technically varied production environment.
The Role
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance across production machinery
- Diagnosing and repairing mechanical and electrical faults
- Working a 4 on, 4 off shift pattern
- Day shift: 6am to 6pm
- Opportunities for overtime and ongoing training
- One annual night-shift rotation during December (approximately three weeks)
- Seasonal back shift (Autumn, Winter & Spring): 12:00pm - 12:00am
The Person:
- Multi-Skilled Engineer or similar background
- Strong electrical fault-finding skills
- Experience within manufacturing, FMCG, food production, or industrial environments (Preferred)
- Electrical qualification (Preferred)
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Reference Number: BBBH25120
Keywords: Multi-Skilled Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, FMCG, Food Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Production, PPM, Breakdown Engineer, Electrical Maintenance, Industrial Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders
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