📍 GU | Bishop’s Stortford | 7am–7pm 4 days on, 4 days off
At GU, we don’t just make dessert — we make moments of pleasure. Behind every perfectly indulgent pot is a factory that runs brilliantly… and that’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a Multi-skilled Day Shift Engineer to help keep our site running at its best. If you thrive in fast-paced FMCG environments, love fault-finding, and take pride in high standards, this could be your next move.
🔧 What you’ll be doing
You’ll be a key part of our Engineering team, supporting production by:
- Responding fast to breakdowns and minimising downtime
- Delivering high-quality planned, preventative & predictive maintenance
- Working across low care and high care environments
- Driving continuous improvement, plant uptime and OEE
- Supporting new machinery, site improvements, hygiene and quality
- Working closely with Production, Engineering leaders and contractors
- Maintaining world-class Health, Safety, GMP and hygiene standards
This is a hands-on, visible role where your expertise genuinely makes a difference every shift.
🧠 What we’re looking for
- 3+ years’ FMCG engineering experience (food manufacturing desirable)
- Multi-skilled Engineer with NVQ Level 3 (or higher)
- Completed engineering apprenticeship
- 17th or 18th Edition certified
- Confident fault-finder with a proactive, can-do mindset
- Comfortable working independently, but a strong team player
- Experience in chilled or frozen environments (desirable)
💚 Why GU?
- Be part of a values-led, people-first business
- Work on modern, high-performance manufacturing equipment
- 4 on / 4 off day shift for a great work-life balance
- A culture of learning, development and continuous improvement
- Pride, passion and quality at the heart of everything we do
Benefits include:-
- 23½ days holiday
- Increased holiday with length of service
- Option to buy more holiday
- Enhanced maternity/paternity (Maternity is 6 months full pay after 2 years of service. 3 months full for 1-2 years)
- Death in benefit service (Metlife Master trust)
- Health Care Cash Plan
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- Life Event leave
- Free Gu
- Heat Scheme
- Mortgage Support
- EAP
- CostCo Membership
- Specsavers eye care voucher
✨ Ready to help keep GU running smoothly?
If you’re an Engineer who loves solving problems, improving performance and being part of something special — we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Apply now and help us keep Britain’s favourite desserts flowing.