Maintenance Engineer – East Manchester

Salary/Rate:£42,000 - £45,000

Job type:Permanent

Town/City:Manchester

County:Greater Manchester

Engineering Discipline:Maintenance Engineers

Sector:FMCG Manufacturing

Job ref:SW0106

Post Date:May 11, 2026

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Meet Our Recruiter

Stephen Simpson

Director/Engineering Recruiter

07508 636 230

stephensimpson@simwestengineering.co.uk

About the Role

Maintenance Engineer – East Manchester

Manufacturing | Production & Packaging Machinery

Day Shifts

A long-established manufacturing business in East Manchester is looking to recruit a Maintenance Engineer to support production uptime across manufacturing, process, and packaging machinery along with site services equipment.

This is a stable manufacturing environment with a well-established engineering team, long-standing workforce, and a varied workload covering reactive maintenance, planned maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvement activity across the plant.

The Maintenance Engineer role would suit someone from a manufacturing, FMCG, packaging, food production, process manufacturing, or industrial production background who enjoys a hands-on engineering environment with a mix of mechanical and electrical maintenance work.

The Maintenance Engineer Role

As a Maintenance Engineer, you’ll be responsible for keeping production machinery and site services running efficiently while supporting engineering improvements across the factory.

The Maintenance Engineer will be working on:

Production machinery
Process equipment
Packaging machinery
Conveyors and automated equipment
Pumps, motors, gearboxes, and drives
Pneumatics and hydraulics
Site services and utilities

Responsibilities

Reactive and planned maintenance across manufacturing machinery
Fault finding on electrical and mechanical systems
Supporting production to minimise downtime
Preventative maintenance and engineering inspections
Working on packaging lines and process equipment
Assisting with continuous improvement projects
Maintaining site services equipment and utilities
Supporting engineering standards and health & safety compliance

Requirements for this Maintenance Engineer role:

Previous experience as a Maintenance Engineer within manufacturing
Multi-skilled engineering background preferred
Experience working on production, process, or packaging machinery
Electrical fault finding ability beneficial
Mechanical maintenance experience essential
Comfortable working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
Engineering qualification such as NVQ, City & Guilds, or apprenticeship preferred

The Business

Long-established manufacturing business
Stable production environment
Established engineering team
Ongoing investment in machinery and production equipment
Varied engineering workload across manufacturing and site services

Package

£42,000 - £45,000 pa (salary level dependent on experience)
Day shift role
Overtime available
Pension
Training and development
Permanent position
East Manchester location

If you’re a Maintenance Engineer looking for a stable manufacturing environment with a varied engineering workload across production, process, packaging machinery, and site services, apply today for immediate consideration.

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