Job Description

The Role

We're looking for an experienced engineer - ideally with a background in bakery equipment - to step off the tools and into a technical assessment role. As a Condition Reporting Engineer, you'll review detailed engineer reports and determine whether equipment is repairable or beyond economic repair. You'll compile professional condition reports for customers, recommend the best course of action, and propose suitable replacements where needed.

This is a great opportunity for someone with hands-on engineering experience who wants to transition into a more office-based, advisory role - while still using their technical knowledge every day.

Key Responsibilities

Review and interpret service reports from field engineers to assess the condition of bakery and catering equipment.

Decide on the viability of repair versus replacement based on fault history, cost of parts, and operational risk.

Write clear, professional condition reports that help customers understand the state of their equipment.

Produce accurate, cost-effective quotations for replacement units when needed.

Liaise with engineers, the sales team, and customers to ensure smooth communication and timely decisions.

Maintain a structured record of assessments, decisions, and customer communications.

About You

Previous hands-on engineering experience with bakery or catering equipment is essential.

Able to read and interpret technical fault reports with a strong understanding of repair economics.

Confident writing structured reports in plain English.

Commercial awareness - comfortable with quoting, pricing, and recommending alternative options.

Good communicator, both written and verbal, with strong attention to detail.

Company Information

Who are we?

Miller's Vanguard are proud to have been supporting all the UK's Supermarket chains for over 40 years, in brief, we are the people in the background ensuring that supermarkets keep the Nation fed! Maintaining a wide and varied range of assets from food production equipment through to loading bay lifts.

Our service are as follows: -

Nationwide reactive maintenance Hygienic Deep cleaning & Planned maintenance services Refurbishment, logistics and installation of equipment
We do all of this with the firm foundations of being owned by the global Ali Group, whose turnover is in excess of 4 billion p.a.

Our people

Despite being a large operation here at Miller's Vanguard we still firmly believe in running the business like we have done for the last 40 years, by valuing our biggest asset we have YOU...the employee.

Our team of over 500 employees have the advantage of working in state-of-the-art working environments: -

New (2021) Technical response centre Award Winning research, Innovation, and recycling facility Stylish, modern Volkswagen Van
We believe in providing you with the very best environment and tools to do the job.

Why Join Us

Job Specific Uniform & tooling for all roles Company wide fun days and charity events Company Pension 32 Holidays per year Regular staff 'treats' for employees and their families A supportive and knowledgeable team environment The chance to stay in the bakery industry while stepping away from regular site work Opportunities for future development within a growing business
Monday - Friday 08.00am - 17.00pm

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: SO - Condition Reporting Engineer