Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer
Job description
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Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (known internally as Craft Engineer)
Billingham (Home of McCoy’s, Pom-Bear and more)
On-site | Flexi-shift (24/7 cover)
Join our snack-loving team
We’re looking for a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join us at KP Snacks. If you’re ready to bring your ideas to the table, grow your skills and be part of a team that values what makes you, you – this could be your next big move.
About the role
As a Multi Skilled Engineer, you’ll play a key role in keeping our production lines running smoothly and safely. Working as part of the Line Structure Team (LST), you’ll support the day-to-day running of our equipment and contribute to continuous improvement across the site. You’ll be hands-on with both mechanical and electrical tasks, helping us deliver great-tasting snacks to our customers – right first time, every time. You’ll also support and coach colleagues, helping to build engineering capability across the team. This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same, and where your ideas and energy will make a real difference.
What’s in it for you?
We believe in rewarding our colleagues and helping them thrive. Here’s a flavour of what we offer:
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Annual salary of £52,578.66
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Annual bonus scheme, with a strong track record of overachievement
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Comprehensive healthcare support – including Medicash Health Cash Plan, Digital GP, Best Doctors second opinion service and specialist cancer care
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KP Pension Plan – contribution matching up to 7% of your salary
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Holiday buy scheme
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KP4ME – our online platform for benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more
What will you be doing?
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Take ownership of mechanical and electrical integrity across your area
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Carry out planned maintenance, fault finding and repairs
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Recommend improvements to maintenance schedules and equipment performance
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Operate food manufacturing equipment when needed, including changeovers
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Support and coach colleagues and apprentices to build engineering capability
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Lead and contribute to continuous improvement activities using IWS tools
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Monitor plant conditions and report defects, ensuring downtime is minimised
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Maintain high standards of hygiene, safety and housekeeping
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Champion engineering standards and safe working practices
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Help create and maintain risk assessments and job operating procedures
Who are we?
We’re KP Snacks, part of the Intersnack family. Across more than 30 countries, over 15,000 of us work together to make the snacks people love – from Hula Hoops to McCoy’s. In the UK, we’re a team of around 2,400 colleagues, based across seven sites and our Slough HQ. We’re proud of our close-knit culture, where we speak up, celebrate differences and push boundaries together.
We’re committed to inclusion
We’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. If you don’t tick every box, we’d still love to hear from you – your unique perspective could be just what we need. And if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you, just let us know.
We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:
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A formal engineering qualification (e.g. City & Guilds, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Multi skilled engineering)
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Electrical and mechanical experience and qualifications, including fault finding and diagnostics (Essential)
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Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, PLCs and safe working practices (Essential)
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Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
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Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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A flexible, hands-on approach and willingness to support across shifts
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Experience operating complex machinery in a manufacturing environment
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Confidence using data to drive decisions and improvements
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Key skills extracted
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Our tips for applying
5 recommandations générées par notre IA pour maximiser vos chances.
⭐ Lead your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly names both 'mechanical' and 'electrical' competencies, as the advert emphasises multi-skilled capability throughout the role description.
📊 Quantify your maintenance impact: e.g. 'Reduced unplanned downtime by 22% over 12 months by implementing a revised PPM schedule across 4 production lines.'
🎯 Reference IWS (Integrated Work System) tools by name in your skills section — the advert calls them out specifically as the CI methodology used on site at Billingham.
🤝 Include a bullet demonstrating coaching or mentoring experience (e.g. apprentices or junior technicians), as supporting and developing colleagues is listed as a core responsibility.
🏭 Highlight any food manufacturing or FMCG production environment experience prominently — KP Snacks operates to strict hygiene and housekeeping standards that are explicitly required in this role.
Bullets CV suggérés
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Ajoutez ces 3 bullets sous votre expérience la plus récente :
- •Reduced unplanned production downtime by 18% across 3 high-speed lines by redesigning the PPM schedule and introducing condition-based monitoring checks on 12 critical assets.
- •Coached 4 apprentice engineers through NVQ Level 3 competency sign-offs, cutting average time-to-competency from 14 months to 10 months across the engineering team.
- •Led an IWS-aligned continuous improvement project targeting a recurring conveyor belt failure, eliminating 6 hours of weekly reactive maintenance and saving an estimated £9,000 in annual downtime costs.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
KP Snacks' Billingham site — producing McCoy's and Pom-Bear at scale across a 24/7 operation — is exactly the environment where my multi-skilled mechanical and electrical maintenance expertise can add immediate value. The emphasis on IWS-driven continuous improvement and coaching engineering capability across the Line Structure Team aligns directly with the work I find most rewarding.
My background in multi-skilled maintenance within high-volume food and FMCG manufacturing has equipped me to manage planned preventive maintenance schedules, carry out rapid fault diagnosis on production-critical equipment, and write robust risk assessments and job operating procedures. I have supported apprentices and junior engineers on shift, helping to build site-wide engineering capability — a responsibility I take seriously and one your advert places at the heart of this role.
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Likely interview questions
10 questions générées à partir de cette offre.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you would diagnose and resolve an electrical fault on a high-speed production line with minimal downtime.
- ›How do you prioritise planned maintenance tasks against reactive breakdown work during a 24/7 shift pattern?
- ›Describe your experience with IWS or similar continuous improvement methodologies — how have you applied them to reduce equipment failures?
- ›What steps do you take when writing or reviewing a risk assessment for a new piece of food manufacturing equipment?
- ›How do you approach a changeover on a production line to ensure it is completed safely, hygienically and within the target time?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you identified a recurring equipment fault and led an improvement that prevented future breakdowns.
- ›Describe a situation where you coached a less experienced colleague or apprentice — what approach did you take and what was the outcome?
- ›Give an example of when you had to balance multiple maintenance priorities simultaneously. How did you manage it?
- ›Tell me about a time you raised a safety concern on the shop floor. What did you do and how was it resolved?
- ›Describe a continuous improvement project you contributed to — what was your specific role and what measurable difference did it make?
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Tell me about a time you identified a recurring equipment fault and led an improvement that prevented future breakdowns.
Describe a situation where you coached a less experienced colleague or apprentice — what approach did you take and what was the outcome?
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