Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Position: Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Salary: £48,000 to £53,000 per annum (£55k - £60k+ with potential overtime), plus Annual Bonus, 10% Pension, Profit Share Scheme, Recognition Awards, Overtime paid at x1.5 & x2.0, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 10pm till 6am AND short day Friday, 6pm till 12am (perm nights)
Location: Commutable from Newbury, Swindon, Chippenham, Cirencester, Faringdon, Yate, Marlborough, Oxford and surrounding areas

Company

We are currently recruiting for a Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Maintenance Electrician to work within a busy factory environment, looking after the day to day maintenance of their production machinery, completing PPM's and attending swiftly to machinery problems and breakdowns. You will also support various projects that include multi million pound machinery upgrades and installations.

They offer great benefits from annual bonuses, employee recognition awards, 10% pension contributions, training and development, and potential annual increments on salary too!

It would suit someone who is electrically trained and qualified, enjoys a variety of work, willing to learn new skills and happy to work in a heavy plant environment where you can expect to get your hands dirty. Team fit is very important too, someone who is a team player with strong and clear communication skills.

Responsibilities

Whilst working in this large company, you will be benefit from working in a small team on night shift. The role is focusing on Electrical Maintenance across all plant machinery, with a heavy bias on dealing with breakdowns re-actively as well as supporting planned preventative maintenance and project work. The role provides autonomy, accountability and a degree of flexibility.

· Focusing on electrical maintenance work across all plant and machinery through fault finding, planned maintenance, planned maintenance shut downs and project work.
· Identification of solutions that improve efficiency and reduce costs.
· Support the handover of work to the opposite shift and ensure works are logged and recorded.
· To work safely at all times and follow safe systems of work.
· To be actively involved in the development and continued planned preventative maintenance schedule.

Machinery in this environment is mainly all plastics related, including extruding, moulding, conveyors, mixers, hydraulics.

Requirements

· Electrically trained and qualified either through an Apprenticeship or hold electrical engineering qualifications.
· Electrical background in a similar environment. This could be industrial or production or manufacturing environment.
· Your job titles may include Electrician, Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Multi Skilled Engineer or Mechanical Technician.
· We are looking for someone who has SOME of the following mechanical experience; Drives, AC/DC Motors, 3 phase, Sensors, Relays, Inverters, Contactors, Control Panels, PLC's (Siemens, Allen Bradley, Omron etc)
· Friendly and adaptable working attitude, with the hunger to learn and physically fit
· 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 Wesley at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Wesley 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.