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🟢 Actively Hiring · Posted 25d ago ⏳ Closes in 66 days UK Corridor 🛡️ UK Work Eligibility 🏢 Company - Public

Maintenance Engineer

🏢 Nestle • 📍 Tutbury, England • 🕒 Sep 14, 2026
Salary Range
£45,000 - £50,000
£3,750 - £4,167 / mo

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Tutbury, England
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Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
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Position Overview & Specifications

Position Snapshot
Business Unit – Nestle Coffee
Job Title – Maintenance Engineer
Location – Tutbury Factory
Salary - £45,000-£50,000
Work Pattern – 5 Days 37.5 hr working week
Position Summary We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer, to join our team based at our Nestlé Beverage, Tutbury Factory.
This role is responsible for ensuring competent maintenance management, to support the sites aim to eliminate unplanned stops and optimise maintenance cost and as a result increased asset intensity.
Nestlé Tutbury Factory in Staffordshire is one of the largest Nestlé factories in Europe after circa £500 million investment over the last few years. The factory is a Centre of excellence for Nescafé products around the world producing freeze-dried, spray dried and pod coffee technologies and is at the forefront of coffee innovation globally.
A day in the life of an Maintenance Engineer …
Reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager you will support the running of both the Spray Dried and Freeze-Dried manufacturing departments.
The main focus of the role will be:
  • Ensuring compliance with the Nestlé quality policy particularly engineering change management and line release.
  • Drive plant reliability through effective coordination and coaching whilst delivering fixed cost reductions.
  • Coordination and implementation of the departmental maintenance strategy.
  • Analysis of breakdowns, with a root cause mindset, taking ownership of follow up actions and roll out.
  • Supporting the capability build across the department with a strong competency build plan.
  • Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practice standards in respect of plant, tools and environment.
  • Support and challenge your colleagues to maintain all company standards.

What will make you successful?
  • Ideally Multi-skilled but Electrical or Mechanical Bias will also be considered. Time served apprenticeship to a minimum of NVQ level 3/City & Guilds or equivalent.
  • Have previous experience within Roast and Ground coffee technology. (Desirable)
  • Have a hands-on, practical approach to your work, along with a can-do attitude.
  • Can work as part of a team delivering compliance in safety and quality.
  • Ability to influence by having strong inter person skills.
  • Have excellent problem solving and prioritisation skills.
  • Naturally able to lead, challenge and build capability.
  • Ability to communicate across all levels and work on own initiative.
  • Manage and prioritise workload in a fast-paced environment.
  • TPM understanding is a must.
What you need to know
What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.
The closing date for this role is Thursday 23rd March.
We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers. That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process. Be yourself, everyone else is taken!
Right to work in the UK In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. The successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their right to work status for the UK during the recruitment process. We have assessed this role and it could be applicable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and you are unable to gain this independently, we may be able to provide sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in line with the Home office guidelines. We encourage you to review the UK Home Office guidelines ahead of submitting a job application to review whether you meet the eligibility criteria under the Skilled Worker route and understand the immigration fees that you would be responsible for when making a visa application. If you require sponsorship, please discuss this with us as part of the recruitment process.

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Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for Maintenance Engineer roles across Nestle's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

1. Domain Competency

Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Food & Beverage Manufacturing.

2. Behavioral & Leadership

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