Technician (Brewing)

About HEINEKEN UK

HEINEKEN UK is the UK’s leading beer, cider and pub business, home to brands including Inch’s and Birra Moretti, as well as around 2,400 pubs.

About the role

As the Technician, you’ll work within brewing lines of production, helping maintain machinery used to brew and package approximately 5 mhl per year. You’ll identify plant abnormalities, minimise production downtime, support colleagues on the shop floor and monitor production-line performance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Perform corrective and reactive maintenance to address defects, losses and breakdowns.
• Diagnose and resolve electrical, automation and mechanical faults while minimising downtime.
• Lead root cause analysis and implement lasting countermeasures, including risk assessments, positive interventions, safety tags, near-miss reporting and 5S activities.
• Drive Total Productive Maintenance initiatives to eliminate losses and promote lean practices.
• Plan and coordinate maintenance activities with Maintenance colleagues, operators and technicians.
• Support and guide shop-floor operators, delegating tasks when required.
• Collaborate with operators on autonomous maintenance tasks and assist the shift manager with asset-related issues.
• Identify and record non-conformities in the CMMS to support continuous improvement.
• Maintain high standards of equipment cleanliness and reliability, contributing to safety, quality, cost and service objectives.
• Champion and uphold HSE standards.

Who we’re looking for

• Near or full completion of an apprenticeship, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering HND or NVQ Level 3, or time served as a multiskilled engineer with an electrical bias.
• Experience in a highly automated, safety-critical manufacturing environment, ideally including high-speed packaging lines such as canning.
• Experience executing planned maintenance techniques and using computerised maintenance management systems.
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• Confidence and ability to work autonomously.

Contract and working pattern

Permanent contract with a 4-on, 4-off shift pattern consisting of 2 days, 2 nights and 4 days off.

Benefits

• Annual bonus.
• Double-matched pension up to 10%.
• 32 days’ holiday plus three listed public holidays.
• Life assurance, subject to policy terms.
• Free ciders and beers, including low- and zero-alcohol options.
• Retail discounts and wellbeing support.
• Comprehensive learning and development opportunities.
• Access to colleague networks.

Application

Applications should be submitted before the closing date of 10 September 2026. HEINEKEN UK can provide adjustments to support applications, including accessible information formats.