Shift Engineer


Company:	Hunter Selection Limited
Salary:	£55,000 to £56,500 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sudbury, CO10 5AF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	24 Sept 2026
Closing date:	8 Oct 2026

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Summary

Shift Engineer

Sudbury

£56,500 + Overtime

12hr Panama Days & Nights Shift (6-6)

Would you like to join a leading manufacturing business, part of a multi-million-pound group, that values itself on staff investment, training & development.

This site has a great culture, with brilliant staff retentions numbers, they are looking for an electrically biased maintenance engineer.

Benefits:- Private Pension, Life Assurance, 23 Shift Holidays, BUPA Healthcare Cashplan, Staff Benefits Card, Qualifications/Training, Car Tax Relief

Role & Responsibilities of a Shift Engineer:

Carry out both preventative and planned maintenance, both electrically & mechanically

Working on high-speed production, packaging and automated machinery

Dealing with conveyors, motors, gearboxes, sensors, electrical isolation, inverters, pneumatics, servo drives, control panels, pumps, compressors, steam & boiler systems

PLC - electrical fault finding on Siemens & Allen Bradley

SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding

Continuous improvement projects and new machinery installations and modification work

Be able to work mechanically on various pipework, fabrication & fault finding

Knowledge, Skills & Experience need to be a Shift Engineer:

Must be a multi-skilled engineer, electrically biased

City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical is a minimum requirement

Must have worked in high-speed production - food, FMCG manufacturing environments

Completed a time-served apprenticeship

Minimum 5 years' experience as an engineer in manufacturing

Beneficial to have City & Guilds 2391 Electrical Test & Inspection

PLC & SCADA Systems - electrical fault finding

Beneficial to have 17

th or 18

th Edition Electrical

Strong team player with a continuous improvement approach

A good level of mechanical skills - dealing with pipework, gearboxes, drives, pumps, etc

Able to follow P&ID, electrical & mechanical drawings

"To apply please email your CV / resume to [

chrisg@hunterselection.co.uk

]". - Chris Gumm - 01908 010 438

If you do not get a response back on your application within 24-48 hours please presume you are unsuccessful.

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If you are interested in this position please click 'apply'.

Hunter Selection Limited is a recruitment consultancy with offices UK wide, specialising in permanent & contract roles within Engineering & Manufacturing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology and Service & Sales sectors.

Please note as we receive a high level of applications we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.

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