This isn’t a traditional maintenance role.

You’ll be joining a live manufacturing environment where the focus is keeping production equipment running reliably, while also supporting improvements, equipment upgrades, and process optimisation.

This role suits a well-rounded multi-skilled engineer who enjoys fault finding, problem solving, and getting hands-on with a broad range of electrical, mechanical, and automated equipment.

Manufacturing Maintenance Engineer
Saffron Walden
£50,000 to £55,000 + Benefits
Full-time, permanent (37.5 hours per week)

Key Responsibilities

• Reactive and planned maintenance across production equipment and site systems.

• Electrical and mechanical fault finding.

• Supporting equipment reliability and uptime improvements.

• Working across automated machinery, conveyors, motors, drives, pumps, pneumatics, hydraulics, and control systems.

• PLC fault finding and minor modifications where required.

• Supporting process improvements and equipment upgrades.

• Assisting with new equipment integration and commissioning.

• Working closely with operations and engineering teams.

• Taking ownership of equipment performance within your area.

Key Requirements

• Multi-skilled engineering experience within manufacturing.

• Strong electrical and mechanical fault finding capability.

• Experience supporting automated production equipment.

• Exposure to PLC-controlled machinery (Siemens ideal).

• Hands-on engineering mindset with strong problem-solving ability.

• Experience in FMCG, food, pharma, packaging, medical devices, or process manufacturing would be beneficial.

Why consider it?

• Varied hands-on engineering role

• Good mix of maintenance + improvement work

• Exposure to specialist manufacturing processes

• Stable day-based working hours

• Opportunity to make a genuine impact in a smaller engineering team

If you’re looking for something that combines hands-on engineering with controls and process work, drop me a message or email lewis@cranleighstem.co.uk