Shift Maintenance Engineer

4 on 4 off (Days & Nights)

Circa £53,000

Location: North Dorset (commutable from Shaftesbury, Salisbury, Yeovil, Blandford Forum, Warminster and surrounding areas)

Yolk Recruitment are supporting a stable, well-invested manufacturer at their award winning site that values its people and encourages development across every level of the business. You’ll be joining a team with an excellent culture, who are supported, trusted, and given the tools to grow both technically and professionally.

This is what you’ll be doing

The Maintenance Engineer will play a key part in maintaining, improving, and developing site performance through proactive maintenance, fault finding, and project work.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Carrying out planned preventative and reactive maintenance across a range of automated production and packaging machinery.
• Electrical fault finding, safe isolation, and component replacement across panels, drives, inverters, relays, and control systems.
• Supporting mechanical maintenance including pumps, conveyors, bearings, gearboxes, and pneumatic systems.
• Working closely with production teams to maintain uptime and product quality while following strict hygiene and safety standards.
• Supporting and driving continuous improvement initiatives across engineering and operations.
• Keeping accurate maintenance records and ensuring compliance with site and industry standards.
• Taking part in structured internal and external training to continually develop your skillset.

The experience you’ll bring to the team

• Electrically biased preferred but not essential
• If mechanically trained, it is essential that you are able to demonstrate strong fault-finding skills across electrical systems.
• Ideally apprentice-trained or qualified to NVQ Level 3 / HNC either electrically or mechanically
• Experience working within a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• Confident working independently and as part of a small, close-knit team.
• Positive attitude towards personal development and continuous improvement.

And this is what you’ll get in return

• Circa £53,000 annual salary
• 9% company pension contribution
• 28 days holiday
• Regular overtime opportunities
• Life assurance
• Secure, long-term career prospects with a growing manufacturer

Benefits currently under review, including enhanced salary sacrifice schemes that go beyond the usual cycle-to-work, with options for electric vehicle schemes and wider lifestyle benefits being rolled out across the group.

Are you up to the challenge?

Please get in touch today with engineering specialist recruiter Liam Reid at Yolk Recruitment.

Apply with your CV or contact Liam directly to discuss your background and the role in more detail.

We do our best to contact all applicants, but due to high volumes, if you’ve not heard within 7 days please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note, the client is unable to accept applications from candidates who require sponsorship.

Electronic Warfare Systems Engineer Porton Down (SP4) Perm - Full Time On-site

• Salary £50,000 - £65,000 DOE
• 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down
• Buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave
• Annual Wellbeing allowance
• Two pension schemes to choose from
• Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members
• Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
• Share Save scheme
• Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retail discounts
• Career development support

Join MASS at Porton Down as anElectronic Warfare Systems Engineerand play a key role in delivering cutting-edge EW solutions. Youll be embedded directly with our technical customer, Dstl, helping to design, implement, and validate new capabilities, influence operational outcomes, and develop into a Subject Matter Expert within a high-performing, multidisciplinary team.

The invaluable experience youll bring

Joining a large project in its early phases, you will be needed to gather stakeholder use cases and work together with a broad range of customers and colleagues to define User and System Requirements, and support the derivation of Design Specifications.

Youll play a key role during deployment, providing hands-on support and guidance for design activities, using your Model-Based Systems Engineering expertise (UML, SysML, ArchiMate) helping turn concepts into operational solutions.

Essential:

• Systems Engineering
• System Design Documentation
• Defence Industry knowledge of EW systems
• Test and acceptance of integrated systems
• Experience across the Engineering Delivery Lifecycle
• Requirements Management (DOORS/Enterprise Architect etc.)

Desirable:

• Systems Modelling (UML/SysML)
• Coding experience (JavaScript or MATLAB/Simulink)
• Previous ex-Military experience with EW systems (operator, maintenance, support, or acquisition).

Wellbeingis at the core to our culture, allowing you to flourish and to achieve your full potential. You are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support you as individuals including, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with,youmustbe:

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK GovernmentDV-levelsecurity clearance

Apply todayto see how working for MASS could work for you!

DSP Embedded Software Engineer
My client is a leading electronics company based in Wiltshire, specialising in the development and manufacturing of cutting-edge products for the global market. With a strong focus on innovation and customer satisfaction, they are committed to delivering exceptional user experiences through advanced technology.
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimise real-time digital signal processing algorithms and embedded software for consumer electronic devices.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to define system architectures and interfaces for seamless integration.
• Perform code reviews, unit testing, and debugging to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Analyze and optimise software performance to meet stringent product specifications.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in DSP and embedded software development.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define software requirements and ensure timely project delivery.
  Skills and Requirements:
• Proven experience in developing DSP algorithms and implementing them in embedded systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, and assembly language for embedded systems.
• Strong understanding of real-time operating systems and device driver development.
• Familiarity with digital audio and video processing, image processing, or wireless communication protocols is highly desirable.
• Good communication skills to collaborate with cross-functional teams and present technical concepts effectively.
  Salary – Flexible DOE
  Location: Wiltshire, United Kingdom (very flexible hybrid working)
  If you are passionate about software and have the necessary skills, please apply now