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Why join us?

We’re proud of what we do, why we do it and who we do it for. We’re proud to give everyone the opportunity and support to develop and progress their career. To nurture talent, fuel ambition and work with resilience and purpose to achieve the highest possible standards. We’re proud of our caring culture, loyal colleagues and future focus. But, most of all, we’re proud to enable and empower everyone to believe, achieve and succeed.

What we do

This particular role is at our Bakkavor Meals site in Park Royal - West London. Split across 3 factories and 1 distribution centre. The factories make chilled ready meals, houmous dips, deli products & savoury accompaniments and employs over 2,000 people.

About the role

In this busy and exciting role, you will bring your engineering skills and problem-solving abilities to our team to help maintain and optimise our food and drink processing and packaging assets.

You’ll play a key part in keeping production running smoothly, safely, and efficiently — ensuring that our equipment performs at its best to deliver high-quality products for our customers.

You’ll be involved in a wide range of engineering activities, from planned and predictive maintenance to responding to breakdowns and implementing improvements.

Working closely with operational teams, you’ll use your technical expertise to diagnose faults, carry out repairs, and contribute to continuous improvement projects that enhance efficiency, reliability, and profitability

Role Accountabilities

• Prepare and carry out maintenance work on food and drink processing and packaging equipment.
• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance to optimise performance and prevent downtime.
• Respond promptly to breakdowns, carrying out repairs or corrective actions as required.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatic faults.
• Support operational teams with machinery changeovers, set-ups, and adjustments.
• Manufacture or repair component parts to maintain equipment reliability.
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects and technical performance reviews.
• Identify and implement engineering solutions to improve efficiency and profitability.
• Maintain accurate maintenance and engineering documentation.
• Ensure maintenance tools and equipment are available, safe, and well maintained.
• Support and mentor team members to develop technical skills and competence.
• Participate in internal and external audits to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.

About You

You’ll have (or be working towards) Level 2 Maths and English and a recognised Engineering Apprenticeship qualification, such as a C&G or EAL NVQ Level 3/4 or OAL FDEM Diploma. Within your first year, you’ll complete the current IET Wiring Regulations, a Level 2 Food Safety Qualification, CMMS training, and contractor control requirements, developing multi-skilled capability with an electrical bias over time.

You’ll bring strong problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills, with a good understanding of Safety, Health and Environmental procedures. Experience in fault finding, planning maintenance work, using IT systems, and following site SOPs is essential.

Knowledge of both mechanical and electrical systems - such as hydraulics, pneumatics, motors, PLCs, and sensors - will be key, along with an understanding of asset performance and spare parts management.

Desirable experience includes IOSH Managing Safely, FMCG background, and exposure to continuous improvement, condition-based monitoring, and reliability techniques.

What you’ll receive

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

• Life Assurance (1 x salary)
• 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays as standard (may vary by role)
• Private medical insurance (after 5 years’ service)
• Staff Shop
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Discount & cashback platform
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Free health check
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans)
• Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
• Free independent mortgage advice
• Discounted tutoring for children
• Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

At Bakkavor, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive, and we believe that diversity makes us stronger. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds and ensure fair, transparent recruitment practices. Learn more about our commitment in our Inclusion and Diversity Policy (Inclusion & Diversity Policy).

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