Electrical Engineer

Wallace Hind Selection; Oundle; On-site; GBP 43,200 - 52,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private Healthcare

Death in Service

Disability Cover

Personal Accident Insurance

Travel reimbursements

Job summary

Wallace Hind Selection is seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to join our growing team on a field-based role. You will diagnose faults, repair industrial machinery, and perform preventive maintenance at customer sites across multiple industries, including recycling, farming, and manufacturing.

The role involves reading electrical drawings, fault finding on PLC systems, and delivering excellent customer service while working independently on site. A full UK driving licence is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong electrical fault‑finding and diagnostic skills.
• Ability to read and work from electrical drawings.
• Knowledge of PLCs and automation systems.
• Understanding of pneumatics and hydraulics in machinery.
• Full UK driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Diagnosing and repairing electrical breakdowns on industrial machinery.
• Carrying out planned maintenance and servicing.
• Reading and interpreting electrical drawings.
• Fault finding on PLC‑controlled systems.
• Working independently at customer sites.
• Delivering excellent customer service and representing professionally.

Skills

Electrical fault-finding

Reading electrical drawings

PLCs

Pneumatics & hydraulics

Driving licence

Education

City & Guilds or equivalent (Electrical/Mechanical/Maintenance)

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Electrical Engineer to join our growing team. This is not a shift role. You'll be travelling to customer sites, diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, and helping keep businesses running when they need it most. You'll work across a wide range of industries including recycling, farming, printing and processing, tackling challenges on equipment such as Heidelberg presses, compactors, balers, shredders, cut‑and‑crease machines, automated feeding systems and extruders.

BASIC SALARY

up to £48,000

BENEFITS

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• BUPA Private Healthcare
• Life Assurance / Death in Service Benefit
• Permanent & Total Disability Cover
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Real‑time travel pays from home to site and back again

LOCATION

Rushden, Northamptonshire

COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS

Kettering, Thrapston, Olney, Daventry, Market Harborough, Huntingdon, St Neots, Corby, Towcester, Newport Pagnell, Bedford

JOB DESCRIPTION

Electrical Engineer - Machinery, Engineering

We're looking for an Electrical Engineer who enjoys the challenge of fault finding, takes pride in solving problems, and genuinely wants to help customers get back up and running.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Diagnosing and repairing electrical breakdowns on industrial machinery
• Carrying out planned maintenance and servicing
• Reading and interpreting electrical drawings
• Fault finding on PLC‑controlled systems
• Working independently at customer sites
• Delivering excellent customer service and representing professionally

PERSON SPECIFICATION

• Strong electrical fault‑finding and diagnostic skills
• Ability to read and work from electrical drawings
• Working knowledge of PLCs
• Understanding of pneumatics, hydraulics and mechanical systems
• City & Guilds or equivalent trade qualifications in Electrical, Mechanical or Maintenance Engineering
• Full UK driving licence

THE COMPANY

Our business has grown from a one‑man band specialising in print machinery, to teams who cover recycling, farming, processing and manufacturing. Our dedicated and knowledgeable team of qualified Engineers work from our specially configured workshop and offices, which are fully equipped to carry out everything here from motor rewinds, VAC pump repairs and bespoke machinery parts. Fully accredited and with over 40 years' specialist experience, we pride ourselves in a professional and personable service which aims to give the highest quality to our customers.

Wallace Hind Selection, alongside our client embrace diversity, champion equality, and foster inclusion to create a work environment where everyone belongs and thrives.