Electrical Maintenance jobs in United Kingdom

Role: Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Maintenance Electrician

Salary: £46,000 to £48,500 per annum, plus overtime and opportunities to learn and develop

Hours: 2 week rotation of days and night shifts. 6.00am to 6.00pm (days) & 6.00pm-6.00am (nights)

Week 1 is Mon, Tues, Fri, Sat

Week 2 is Sun, Wed, Thurs

Location: Commutable from Durham, Darlington, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Sunderland and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Maintenance Electrician to work within a manufacturing company at one of their leading automated factories. You will benefit from a friendly and loyal team of Engineers working in this fast-paced environment. The role is varied and enjoyable where you can expect to be challenged, supported, and help continuously improve machinery.

Responsibilities

This role will involve all aspects of troubleshooting, problem-solving, and project work. You will be required to look for and implement continuous improvements individually and as part of a team. In addition, you will also be required to plan and carry out preventative maintenance to ensure a high standard of plant maintenance is always achieved. You will assist in all maintenance activities on site. The successful candidate will be working as part of the electrical maintenance team ensuring that all electrical plant equipment is operating efficiently with the minimum amount of downtime and in a safe order. You will also be required to adhere to strict health and safety requirements at all times.

Key responsibilities include:

1. Electrical maintenance of all plant and machinery through fault finding, planned maintenance, shut downs, and project work.
2. Working as part of a team, responsible for all electrics throughout the factory.
3. Identification of solutions that improve efficiency and reduce costs.
4. Developing an understanding of machinery operation to diagnose and rectify faults efficiently.
5. Providing good communication to colleagues and production while keeping required logs of maintenance work.
6. Working safely at all times and following safe systems of work.
7. Actively involved in the TPM improvement process.
8. Working tidily and making a positive contribution to the 5S system.
9. Handling anything electrical, including sensors, motors, variable speed drives, contactors, relays, inverters, and PLCs. Experience with some of these will be highly desirable.

Requirements

1. Completed a recognised electrical engineering apprenticeship or hold an engineering electrical qualification.
2. Experience of electrical maintenance engineering within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
3. Some of the following electrical experience: 3 phase, star/delta motors, sensors, inverters, PLC fault finding, contactors, relays, servo drives, installations, general maintenance.
4. Friendly and adaptable working attitude, with a hunger to learn and progress.
5. Proactive work attitude and keen to get stuck in.

If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up-to-date CV to Jane at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Wesley or Jane for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful.