Electrical Engineer (Food Manufacturing)

LJ Recruitment; Wigan; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an Electrical Engineer for a food manufacturing site in Wigan. The ideal candidate will have an electrical apprenticeship and strong manufacturing maintenance experience. Responsibilities include reactive and planned maintenance, fault-finding, and improvements on equipment. The role requires confidence in electrical maintenance and a commitment to hygiene and safety standards. A salary of up to £42,000 is offered for this permanent, site-based position.

Qualifications

• Electrical apprenticeship served is essential.
• Strong background in manufacturing maintenance.
• Confident in reactive and planned maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Perform reactive maintenance on breakdowns to minimise downtime.
• Conduct planned preventative maintenance across plant and equipment.
• Execute electrical maintenance on machinery, buildings, and utilities.
• Engage in fault-finding and repairs, including PLC-related work.
• Identify improvements and help implement fixes.
• Occasional installation work, primarily focused on maintenance.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Reactive maintenance

Planned preventative maintenance

Fault-finding

Hygiene and food safety

Education

Electrical apprenticeship

HNC

Tools

PLC systems (Mitsubishi/Siemens)

Job description

⚡ Electrical Engineer (Food Manufacturing)

📍 Wigan | 💷 Up to £42,000 | Permanent | Site-based

If you're an Electrical Engineer who loves a proper fault-find, keeps calm during breakdowns, and gets a genuine buzz out of keeping machinery uptime high… I've got a great one for you.

I'm recruiting for an Electrical Engineer role at a busy food manufacturing site in Wigan. You'll report into the Engineering Manager and play a key part in keeping production running smoothly through a mix of reactive maintenance, PPM, and improvements across plant machinery, utilities and site services.

This is an electrically biased role, but they do want someone who's happy to get involved in the basic mechanical side too when needed.

💷 The package

• Salary: up to £42,000
• Permanent role
• Site-based in Wigan

What you'll be doing

• Reactive maintenance on breakdowns (minimising downtime)
• Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across plant and equipment
• Electrical maintenance across machinery, buildings, services and utilities
• Fault-finding and repairs (including PLC-related work)
• Identifying improvements and helping implement fixes
• Occasional installation work, but mainly focused on maintenance and uptime

Food manufacturing environment, so H&S, hygiene and food safety are taken seriously (and you'll be backed with the right processes and standards).

Must haves ✅

• Electrical apprenticeship served (essential)
• Strong manufacturing maintenance background
• Confident with reactive + planned maintenance

Nice to haves 🌟

• HNC preferred
• PLCs (ideally Mitsubishi/Siemens)
• 18th Edition (C&G #removed#)
• Food manufacturing experience
• 5+ years experience

If you're open to hearing more, drop me a message and I'll send the full details over.