Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Electrical Maintenance Engineer

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Location: Desford
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (Days & Nights)
Salary: £57,000 + up to £3,000 annual bonus
Pension: Up to 15% total (10% employer, 5% employee)

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a large engineering team at a state‑of‑the‑art, highly automated manufacturing facility. This is a brand‑new, high‑volume production site-set to become one of the fastest in Europe-offering excellent training, modern equipment, and long-term progression.

This position has become available due to an engineer leaving, creating an excellent opportunity for a strong electrically‑biased engineer to join a well-supported and forward‑thinking team.

Key Responsibilities

Provide electrical maintenance, fault finding, and repair across a variety of automated manufacturing equipment.
Work on conveyors, mixers, ovens, kilns and other large-scale industrial machinery.
Support continuous improvement, reliability, and efficiency across the site.
Work within a large engineering team (approx. 20 engineers), ensuring safe and efficient operation of all equipment.
Complete handover processes daily (5:30-6:00).
Participate in holiday cover to reduce banked hours (296 hours reducing to 206 after handover deductions).
Undertake planned and reactive maintenance in a dusty, fast‑paced FMCG/industrial environment.

Overtime & Hours Structure

You will have 206 banked hours annually (equivalent to 18 days of overtime per year).
These hours can only be reduced through holiday cover.
Weekend holiday cover = time and a half deduction.
Any overtime not related to holiday cover = paid at time and a half.

Essential Requirements

Electrically qualified (City & Guilds / NVQ / HNC or equivalent).
Strong electrical bias with excellent fault‑finding skills.
Experience in FMCG or heavy industrial environments.
Experience with industrial electrical panels.
Exposure to automation, complex machinery, and fast‑paced engineering settings.

Desired Skills

Siemens experience (including Siemens S7)-desirable but not essential.
Ability to work within highly automated environments.
Experience in large production or manufacturing facilities.

Benefits

Up to 15% total pension (company contributes 10% when you contribute 5%).
Strong training and development opportunities.
Chance to work at a brand‑new, cutting-edge automated site with major production output.
Progression opportunities within a large engineering function.

Working Environment

Dusty industrial environment.
Highly automated systems and robotics.
Fastest producing site in Europe (target).
Large, supportive engineering team (approx. 20 engineers).

Interview Process

Stage 1:
Informal technical discussion with Carl, reviewing your CV and experience.

Stage 2:
On‑site technical assessment with an engineer.

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Walk‑through of site.
Basic practical test (panel work, fault finding)