Electrical Engineer

Meridian Business Support; Clyst St Mary; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment specialist is seeking an Electrical Engineer to oversee project management within a manufacturing facility. Key responsibilities include identifying and purchasing machines, supervising contractors, and improving manufacturing equipment reliability. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years' experience and a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering. This position offers an excellent benefits package, including holiday, secure parking, and a contributory pension.

Benefits

25 days annual holiday

Secure on-site parking

Excellent contributory pension

Health care cash back plan

Life assurance

Company bonus scheme

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience.
• Knowledge of low and high voltage electrical systems and schematics.
• Ability to identify and solve root causes of repetitive reliability problems.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervising sub-contractors and ensuring project implementation to time and cost.
• Creating project plans for machine rearrangement and equipment installation.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Low voltage systems

High voltage systems

Data analysis

Reliability improvement

Education

HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering

Tools

CAD

Microsoft Suite

Oracle

Job description

Overview

Electrical Engineer

The Opportunity: This role might suit somebody who is an Electrical Engineer who could also project manage within a manufacturing facility. Experience in electrical maintenance of industrial services and/or machines would be beneficial, OR with building services including fixed installation testing and power distribution. This Electrical Project Engineer role is critical to ensure that the manufacturing equipment, services, buildings and the entire engineering infrastructure are maintained and improved to meet the current and future demands of the business.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
• Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
• Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
• Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
• Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
• Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/electrical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
• Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
• Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce recurring faults and downtime.
• Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
• Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
• Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience.
• No other formal Electrical qualifications are required in this role but you will need to have a knowledge of low and high voltage electrical systems and schematics and be able to effectively communicate with and manage electrical contractors on site.
• Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures.
• Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment.
• CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful.

Pay and Benefits

• 25 days annual holiday
• Secure on-site parking
• Excellent contributory pension
• Health care cash back plan
• Life assurance
• Company bonus scheme
• 8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy