Days Shift Engineer

Nestlé Purina

Location: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Shift Pattern – Monday to Thursday 42 hours per week (Monday 7am – 4pm / Tuesday – Thursday 7am – 6pm)

Salary: £51,809.00 per annum 

Position Summary

Are you currently a Maintenance, Shift or Reliability Engineer who is looking to share your skill-set in a role that offers an opportunity for you to shine? Are you keen to make your mark in your next career step? Then this could be the role you’re looking for.

We are now looking for Days Shift Maintenance Engineers to help deliver the maintenance strategy for our Purina factory in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, this factory is in its prime with heavy capital investment on new lines and new exciting equipment leading to new development opportunities!

At Nestlé Purina, we’re on a mission to enrich the lives of pets, the people who love them, and the planet we share. Join us, and you’ll discover a world where your skills, knowledge, and passion can flourish. As part of our supportive and dynamic environment, you’ll be encouraged to challenge norms, experiment with new ideas, and drive meaningful change. At Purina, you’re not just part of a team; you’re part of a movement to create a better world for pets and people alike.

Our Wisbech factory makes some of the UK’s most well-known and much-loved brands, such as Felix, Winalot, Gourmet, and Purina ONE, and is constantly developing to meet the changing needs of our consumers. This factory is in its prime with significant capital.

A day in the life of a Days Shift Engineer

Here at Purina we are moving to a line centric approach to help create efficiencies with our production. This role is a key role for the factory; working as part of an integrated Engineering team, ensuring maintenance activities are carried out whilst complying with all relevant Health and Safety Legislation and site standards. This role is responsible for a defined set of production assets in terms of the engineering strategy to support in driving your area to world class performance levels in safety, quality, cost and service.

Other key responsibilities:

• To maintain the basic condition of the machines by means of reactive, preventative and predictive maintenance activities.
• Driving a safe culture and eliminate safety risks.
• Empowering and inspiring people by supporting the production team and developing their capability.
• Ensure all work is completed to a good engineering standard following GMP and safe systems of work at all times.
• Participate and support the Autonomous and Maintenance Working Groups to drive improvement through the implementation of following tools: inspections, abnormalities identification, centre lining, breakdown analysis, preventive and predictive maintenance.
• Drive continuous excellence and continuous improvements in the key operational business processes throughout manufacturing.

What will make you successful

To be successful in this key role we expect you to ideally have experience working in a FMCG manufacturing maintenance environment maybe as a Technician, Shift Engineer or a Maintenance Engineer and have strong service orientation amongst internal stakeholders with lots of proactive initiative and passion for continuous improvement.

Other key attributes we are looking for are:

• Ideally educated to apprenticeship level NVQ 3 or hold a recognised engineering qualification.
• Demonstrate mechanical comprehension & food safety/Food handling awareness.
• Ability to understand and adhere to strict hygiene rules.
• Experience in Planned Preventative asset Maintenance.
• Experience in Root Cause Analysis tools/problem solving methodology.
• Understanding of Lean manufacturing tools including TPM.
• Demonstrates understanding of Continuous Improvement and cost awareness.
• Data analysis and understanding of performance indicators.
• Demonstrate that you are a real team player.

What we need you 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, bonus scheme, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth. This position is a days based role and operates over a 4 day working week.

The closing date for this role is Tuesday 21/10/2025.

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.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect. When we embrace diversity and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. People of all gender identities, ethnically diverse individuals, people with disabilities, and members of the LGBT+ community are strongly encouraged to apply. If there is anything we can do to accommodate you to participate fully in the application process, please let us know. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity, our people make up a number of Colleague Networks who represent different experiences and communities who hold us accountable in creating a sense of belonging for all, and our values create the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution you bring. Find out more about our Colleague Networks here: Diversity, equity and inclusion | Nestlé (nestle.co.uk)

We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!