Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer

CompanyAB Agri

LocationBury St Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

Posted At3/6/2026

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Occupation Type

Metal working production and maintenance fitters

Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled

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£41,700 (£21.38 per hour)

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Description

Job title: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk, UK

Contract & hours: Permanent, the shift pattern is 2 weeks of days (8 am to 4 pm), 1 week of early (6 am to 2 pm), and 1 week of late (1 pm to 9 pm).

During the late shift week, the engineer is also on call overnight and for the weekend.

Package includes Salary £48,748.47 a year, plus around £3,965 annual on-call payment (13 weekends per year at £305 per weekend), plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing, and everyday life.

Over Time is currently being offered.

Join AB Agri as a Maintenance Engineer and play an important role in keeping our manufacturing sites operating safely, efficiently, and reliably.

Working as part of a small engineering team, you will be responsible for both planned and reactive maintenance, supporting plant availability while ensuring feed safety, quality and health and safety standards are never compromised.

Role Overview

This role supports the overall maintenance of the site, covering both electrical and mechanical systems. You will conduct planned preventative maintenance, respond to breakdowns, conduct fault finding and support plant optimisation. The role contributes directly to maximising plant reliability and efficiency while maintaining high standards of safety, feed safety, and product quality.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure the site always remains electrically and mechanically safe.
Conduct maintenance work in line with risk assessments, safe isolation procedures, and safe systems of work.
Complete planned preventative maintenance in line with agreed schedules using the Agility CMMS system.
Collaborate with operators to plan equipment availability for maintenance activities.
Respond to breakdowns and reactive maintenance requirements in a timely manner.
Participate in the site on-call rota to support out of hours breakdown response.
Support spare parts management by reporting parts used and assisting with ordering through the P2P system.
Monitor plant condition as part of routine inspections and report any issues identified.
Maintain good standards of workshop and work area housekeeping.
Issue permits and supervise contractors as required

Essential

About you:

Multi-skilled engineer with City & Guilds Level 3, HNC or equivalent experience in mechanical and electrical engineering
Experience working with planned maintenance systems.
High level of health and safety awareness

Effective communication skills and ability to work as part of a team.

Logical and structured approach to fault finding and problem solving.

Experience maintaining automated process control systems

Desired Qualifications

Experience within FMCG or food manufacturing.
Knowledge of continuous improvement or lean techniques
18th Edition wiring regulations
C&G 2391 inspection and testing
IOSH or similar safety qualification
IPAF, PASMA or forklift licence
Confined space training
Steam boiler qualification such as BOAS
Understanding of DSEAR and maintenance of ATEX equipment
Welding, fabrication and machining skills

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About Us

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’r

e passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.