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Job Title: Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer
Company: Allied Bakeries
Requisition ID: 3566
Job Location: Walthamstow
Posting Start Date: 29/12/2025
Posting End Date: 26/01/2026
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Job Category: Engineering
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Overview of role
Location: Walthamstow, Greater London
Annual salary: 62,401.08
Hours: 42 hours per week - 4 on 4 off (alternating days and nights)
Shifts: 1 week of days followed by 1 week of nights
As a Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer, you'll have an integral part in ensuring the smooth running of our bakery. You'll be working across shifts (days and nights) to deliver continuous improvement, proactive maintenance, and timely repairs. This is a hands-on role requiring quick problem-solving, initiative, and collaboration with the wider team.
The role of a Multi-Skilled Shift Engineer is a varied and challenging one. Working shifts, you will be expected to identify and deliver continuous improvement initiatives alongside proactive and reactive maintenance and repairs to the plant and site services associated with a major bakery.
Key Accountabilities

• Diagnose and resolve automation, electrical, and mechanical issues during breakdowns.
• Implement our engineering strategy with consistency and efficiency.
• Deliver improvement projects on time and within budget.
• Support site performance by focusing on KPIs such as OEE and CCOs.
• Maintain high standards of safe working practices.
• Provide training and coaching to operators and other engineers.
• Undertake additional activities as required, supporting the overall function of the site.

Plus, any other duties which reasonably correspond to the general character of the role. The above list of accountabilities is not exhaustive, and the post holder may be required to undertake duties as may be reasonably expected.
Key Ingredients to Success

• A candidate with effective communication skills.
• Experience in training and coaching others.
• Enthusiastic and motivated for continuous improvement.
• Ready and equipped to address emerging requirements within the business.
• Indentured time served apprentice with an Electrical bias, supported by suitable experience.
• Alternatively, C&G 2346-03 Electro-technical Experienced worker qualification.
• A Higher National Certificate (HNC) in an electrical, automation or multi-skilled engineering discipline is desirable.

Information at a Glance
Allied Bakeries 2025. Allied Bakeries - A division of ABF Grain Products Limited, Registered in England No. 79590 at Weston Centre, 10 Grosvenor Street, London W1K 4QY

Skills Required