Engineer

Multi-Skilled Engineer (Electrical Bias)

Noble Foods (Gainsborough Poultry site) | Fast-paced FMCG Environment

Are you a hands-on engineer who thrives in a busy production environment? Do you enjoy fault-finding, fixing problems fast, and keeping vital machinery running smoothly? If so, Noble Foods wants you on our engineering team.

We’re looking for a multi-skilled maintenance engineer with a strong electrical bias and solid mechanical experience to help keep our high-volume poultry processing site operating safely, efficiently, and reliably.

🛠️ The Role

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving our production and site services equipment. This is a practical, varied role where no two days are the same.

You’ll be:

• Responding quickly to breakdowns and carrying out effective electrical and mechanical fault-finding

• Maintaining and repairing production machinery including conveyors, evisceration equipment, packing machines, and chillers

• Completing planned preventative maintenance and supporting continuous improvement

• Fault-finding on PLC-controlled systems, motors, drives, sensors, and control panels

• Carrying out mechanical work on gearboxes, bearings, pneumatics, hydraulics, and basic fabrication

• Working closely with production and hygiene teams to minimise downtime

• Supporting shutdowns, installations, and site engineering projects

• Recording all work accurately using the site CMMS

• Ensuring all tasks meet strict food safety, hygiene, and health & safety standards

👷‍♂️ What We’re Looking For

You’ll be a confident, safety-focused engineer who can think on their feet in a high-volume environment.

Essential:

• Recognised electrical qualification (NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, or equivalent)

• Multi-skilled engineer with a strong electrical bias

• Solid mechanical fault-finding experience in a manufacturing environment

• Good working knowledge of PLC fault-finding, motors, inverters, sensors, and control systems

• Experience with pneumatics and hydraulics

• Understanding of permit-to-work, isolation, and lock-off procedures

Desirable:

• Experience in food, FMCG, or poultry processing environments

📚 Training & Development

We invest in our people. Depending on your experience, you’ll receive training in areas such as:

• Health & Safety (IOSH Working Safely, behavioural safety, hazard reporting)

• HACCP and food hygiene

• Safe systems of work

• Manual and mechanical handling

• Role-specific technical and process training

🎁 What’s in It for You?

We offer far more than just a competitive salary:

• Competitive pay (dependent on experience)

• Overtime opportunities

• Ongoing training and development

• Free hot drinks on shift ☕

• Free meal every day in our on-site canteen 🍽️

• Discounted eggs and chicken 🐔

• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

• Free life insurance

• Enhanced sick pay scheme

• Perkbox benefits including monthly freebies from Greggs or Café Nero

• DigiCare+ access: Digital GP, annual health checks, mental health support & more

• Discounted gym memberships

• Free eye test every two years

• Discounted mobile phone contracts

• Annual bonus through our People Partnership (after 6 months)

• Extra allowances for First Aiders & Mental Health First Aiders

• Wellness programme & Employee Charity Matching Scheme

• Celebration Day – enjoy an extra day off after one year’s service to celebrate a life event 🎉

🚀 Join Us

If you’re an engineer who takes pride in keeping production moving and wants to be part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and help power the future of Noble Foods, Gainsborough Poultry site.

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