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Salary
≈ $44k – $75k per year (Estimated)
Location
In office (Manchester)
Seniority
Middle · 3+ years exp
Visa
Licensed UK visa sponsor
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 25, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 23, 2026. McBride scores B on the Alion truth index.

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We are the leading European manufacturer and supplier of Private Label and Contract Manufactured products for the domestic household.

If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.

Name:

Job Title:

Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer

Location:

United Kingdom

Site:

UK - Middleton

Function:

Operations Liquids

Line Manager (Direct):

Engineering Section Manager

Line Manager (Dotted):

Key Purpose:

  • Be a pro-active member of a cross functional, multi-skilled engineering team. Working on a 4 on 4 off shift pattern to provide a 24/7 reactive and proactive engineering service to Middleton production site. Ensuring all assets perform to maximum production speeds with minimum interruptions and breakdowns.
  • Having a natural desire for continuous improvement and ability to get to the root cause of failures. Applying corrective measures required to ensure all McBride assets are maintained and repaired to a high standard.
  • Ensuring all equipment is fit for purpose as required and maintained to high safety standards. Working in a safe manner and inline with all Health & Safety procedures and McBride Health & Safety Policies and Procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

Work proactively within a team and independently to carry out:

  • Issue and work with Permit to Work systems, Isolation Procedures and McBride Risk Assessments and Policies.
  • Play an active part in Safety Walks and identifying improvements and producing/updating Risk Assessments.
  • Completion of Planned Reliability Maintenance Inspections and Tasks to a high standard
  • Reactive maintenance and fault finding. Using practical problem solving skills to provide a timely fix. Ensuring production losses are minimal and workaround solutions are provided when required.
  • Engage in Lean Maintenance Improvement Initiatives using CI and Lean techniques. Play an active role in CI projects taking the lead where appropriate.
  • Use CMMS system to plan work. Including booking & requisitioning of spare parts, accurately recording completed work, follow up work, along with the results and findings of reliability maintenance tasks;
  • Ensure communication is clear and consistent to all team members, management and across shifts - including all external customers such as Production, Quality and H&S,
  • Collaborate with all site personnel to ensure site minimal disruption to production output.
  • To assist with training new and existing staff members on specialist skills and experience to effectively benefit the team’s growth.
  • Working alongside third party contractors on R&M and the implementation of new assets to site, including commissioning.
  • Produce technical documentation and reports. Including SOPs and Risk Assessments.
  • Support TPM autonomous maintenance and improve ways of working within the internal and external team
  • Have responsibility within the Emergency Evacuation plan to carry out the Engineering Investigation Team Role.
  • Work a fully flexible rota which will include overtime and flexible working requirements

Key Result Areas:

(The key end results by which achievement will be measured)

OEE improvements and reduction in downtime Labour utilisation Pro-active v Reactive Maintenance PPM completion CI improvements Changeover time and start ups Near Miss Raise and Close % Corrective action completion Audit compliance for workshops and Ways of Working Compliance to H&S audits and Safe Systems of Work

Relevant and Quantifiable Measures:

(Relevant facts/figures relating to the job including number of direct reports, budgets)

  • 0 direct report but essential to be a team player.

Behavioural Competencies / Personal Characteristics:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

  • Able to handling complexity and a high pressure work environment.
  • Able to work autonomously whilst effectively prioritising and adapting to variable workload.
  • Good Communicator. Both written and verbal. Able to produce technical and non-technical report.
  • Customer Orientated.
  • Team player
  • Highly responsible and conscientious
  • Reliable and flexible with strong work ethic.
  • Punctual, presentable and with good attendance.
  • Pro-active and can do attitude required.
  • Strong desire to learn and improve own skills.

Technical Competencies & Qualifications:

(Experience and skills needed to do the job)

  • You should have a minimum of 3 years’ experience working on high volume production automated machinery with knowledge of pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical control systems whilst carrying out and preparing routine maintenance programs.
  • You should hold a time served apprenticeship or a HNC/ONC in an Electrical/Mechanical Engineering background
  • You should have strong Multi-Skilled Electrical or Mechanical Maintenance fault finding capabilities.
  • Previous experience of a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer within a similar FMCG environment.
  • Good knowledge of MS Office and general PC skills
  • Able to read both electrical and mechanical drawings
  • Able to fault find and basic PLC programming advantageous.

McBride Principles:

(Standard for all Job Descriptions)

Teamwork

  • Work together, learn from mistakes, support each other, and respect others opinions regardless of your own views.
  • Think of the needs of the team and focus on the achievement of collective results.
  • Handle any issue as one team and hold each other accountable for delivering results.
  • Have the moral courage to bring all topics and difficult issues on the table for discussion, and commit to decisions collectively taken.

Leadership

  • Create an environment that encourages teamwork, engagement, and communication.
  • Set the tone for a focus on results and define goals that are specific and actionable.
  • Take the lead and responsibility, move forward without hesitation, and solve problems quickly.

Engagement

  • Be present and participate in the realisation of our mission, vision and goals.
  • Buy in to decisions, commit to plans, and always look for improvement.
  • Join in on discussions and debates.
  • Act with speed, agility, and confidence.

Communication

  • Be genuinely open with one another.
  • Talk and listen to each other.
  • Challenge each other.
  • Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

This job description describes the key areas of the post but is not exhaustive. The job description is subject to review and amendments in line with the needs of the business.

I acknowledge receipt of this job description and agree to undertake the tasks, responsibilities and activities set out in order to achieve the described key results.

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Date:

Name of Line Manager:

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