All Locations
Leicester
All Departments
Engineering
Vacancy Type
Permanent
Normal Working Days:
Panama 2 - 3 - 2
Normal Start & Finish Time:
07:00 - 19:00 & 19:00 - 07:00

About The Role


Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations: -

  • Enhanced pension scheme
  • Private health scheme
  • Employee discount scheme
  • Experience annual pay reviews
  • Profit related pay
  • Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity

In this role you will:
  • Run, monitor and improve the CMMS assigning work to engineers and contractors.
  • Be responsible for leading the engineering shift team in the day-to-day activities, weekly engineering budget, ordering parts and arranging contractors.
  • Your daily tasks will include attending production and downtime meetings liaising closely with the production managers.
  • Monitor & maintain a high standard of work and actively look for new ways of proactively reducing equipment down time. 
  • Using the company OEE system you will interrogate the system to highlight downtime and produce a root cause analysis to put a long-term fix in place.
The Ideal Candidate

We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience: -

  • City & Guilds/Level 3 NVQ minimum in Electrical Engineering
  • Experience of managing others in an FMCG environment including managing absence and performance
  • Experience with the following would be an advantage: Fillers, Vacuum tray sealers, slicers, bowl choppers, boxing and packaging machines, xray, metal detectors.
  • Experience of fault finding and diagnosis at a fast pace
  • An ability to work on your own initiative and as a part of a team
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role. 

Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member – you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!

About Us

We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK’s best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.

At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.


Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative.

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