Day-Shift Electrical Maintenance Engineer - PLC Focus

Yolk Recruitment Limited; Llanidloes; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Yolk Recruitment Limited is recruiting an Electrically Biased Maintenance Engineer in Mid-Wales for a days-based operation. You’ll join a small maintenance team supporting a contract packing and manufacturing operation, handling planned and reactive maintenance across a varied range of machinery.

Expect electrical fault finding on PLC-controlled systems, HMIs and ladder logic alongside mechanical work such as rollers, motors and gearboxes.

Qualifications

• Apprenticeship/NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering required.
• 3–5 years' experience in a manufacturing or industrial maintenance environment.
• Strong electrical fault-finding skills on panels, motors, drives and control systems.
• Basic to intermediate PLC fault-finding experience, ideally Siemens or Mitsubishi.

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and reactive maintenance across conveyors, bucket elevators, bag weighers, heat sealers, robotics and mixing equipment.
• Fault find on PLC-controlled systems using HMIs and ladder logic; work with external suppliers on complex issues.
• Support mechanical maintenance such as rollers, motors and gearboxes in a multi-skilled team.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Panel & motor control

PLC fault finding

Mechanical maintenance

Problem solving

Education

Electrical engineering apprenticeship / NVQ Level 3

Tools

Siemens PLC

Mitsubishi PLC

Job description

Yolk Recruitment Limited is recruiting an Electrically Biased Maintenance Engineer in Mid-Wales for a days-based operation. You’ll join a small maintenance team supporting a contract packing and manufacturing operation, handling planned and reactive maintenance across a varied range of machinery.

Expect electrical fault finding on PLC-controlled systems, HMIs and ladder logic alongside mechanical work such as rollers, motors and gearboxes.