Apprentice Maintenance Engineer
Level: 3
Employer: HILL BISCUITS LIMITED
Location: Tudno Mill
Duration: 3 Years
Expected start date: 16/05/2025
Hours per week: 37.5 hours
Wage: (Annually)
Job role includes
- Preventative & reactive maintenance
- Scheduled maintenance
- Mechanical fault finding
- Electrical fault finding
- Creating a maintenance plan for the organisation’s equipment
- Establishing maintenance policies and procedures
- Ensuring that maintenance technicians carry out planned maintenance
- Conducting frequent quality checks on equipment to ensure no maintenance is required
- Completing emergency maintenance when equipment breaks down
- Managing the budget for the maintenance of equipment
- Keeping a record of preventive and emergency maintenance carried out
- Ensuring the organisation complies with safety regulations while maintenance takes place
- You will also deal with customers who come to collect and suppliers who deliver to the warehouse
- You will help the team load the van for deliveries
- You will work closely with the operations manager and the office team to ensure a smooth running of the dispatch area
- Any other duties required


About employer
Hill Biscuits is one of the largest and longest-established biscuit manufacturers in the United Kingdom. From its site in the heart of Ashton-under-Lyne, the Hill bakery operates 24 hours a day and produces over 100 product lines of everyday traditional biscuits – including flavoured creams, Bourbon Creams, Fruit Shorties, Gingerbread Men and Digestives – all following family recipes handed down through the generations. Started in 1855 by John and Sarah Hill from a small shop in Dukinfield, Manchester – manufacturing was scaled to meet supply in 1889 and four years later the foundation stone for the Tudno Mill factory was laid by Sarah Hill on 4th November 1893. The bakery remains the home of Hill Biscuits to this day, 130 years on.
Maintenance and Operations Engineering Technician Level 3.
Training will take place both on-site at Hill Biscuits and weekly day release at the Rochdale Training. Candidates need to ensure that they can attend both sites.
Progression offered to the right candidate.
- Communication skills
- Organisation skills
- Team working
- Experience is desirable
- Punctuality
- Reliability
- Trustworthiness