Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Kpi-Recruiting-Ltd; Beetham; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime pay 1.5x

10 consecutive days off per month

Competitive base salary

Job summary

KPI-Recruiting-Ltd is recruiting a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer for a paper manufacturing site in Cumbria. The role focuses on reliability centred maintenance, improvement, and problem solving on legacy and upgraded machinery.

You will work across motors, drives, panels and PLC systems in a heavy industrial setting. The successful candidate will handle both planned and reactive maintenance, participate in project work, and maintain high safety standards, with overtime and a strong earning

Qualifications

• Time-served Electrician / Electrical Engineer required.
• NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
• Experience in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments.
• Strong electrical fault-finding and reading electrical drawings.

Responsibilities

• Electrical maintenance across production and site services.
• Fault finding and repair on ageing and upgraded equipment.
• Work on motors, drives, control panels, PLC systems.
• Participate in PPM and reactive maintenance.
• Support reliability improvements and root cause analysis.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Fault finding

PLC systems

Motors & drives

PPM & reactive maintenance

Electrical drawings

Safety compliance

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering

18th Edition Wiring Regulations

Tools

Siemens PLC

Allen-Bradley PLC

VSDs (Variable Speed Drives)

Job description

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Cumbria
Salary: Starting Salary of 45k
Shift Pattern: Rotating Days & Nights (10 Days off straight per month with a 13 working days per months)

About the Role

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established paper manufacturing site with a strong engineering culture and a real focus on reliability.

This is an opportunity for a true Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer- someone who appreciates both legacy machinery and modern upgrades. This is not a highly automated, high-CAPEX environment where equipment is replaced at the first fault. Instead, this site believes in:

• Reliability-centred maintenance

• Continuous improvement

• Process optimisation

• Engineering-led problem solving

• Getting the absolute best performance from existing assets

If you enjoy improving plant performance, enhancing reliability, and making meaningful engineering improvements - this is the role for you.

Shift Pattern & Overtime as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• Rotating days and nights

• You will work an average of 13 shifts per month

• Includes 10 consecutive days off every month

• Excellent work-life balance compared to traditional shift roles

• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Regular availability of additional overtime days

This pattern offers significant time off while maintaining strong earning potential.

Key Responsibilities as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• Electrical maintenance support across production and site services

• Fault finding and repair on a mix of ageing and upgraded equipment

• Work on motors, drives, control panels, PLC-controlled systems

• Participate in PPM and reactive maintenance

• Support reliability improvements and root cause analysis

• Contribute to small project work and plant modifications

• Work collaboratively with mechanical engineers and operations teams

• Maintain high safety standards in a heavy industrial environment

Engineering Environment

You will work across:

• Paper manufacturing and converting machinery

• Pumps, motors, gearboxes and conveyors

• Variable speed drives (VSDs)

• PLC systems (Siemens, Allen Bradley or similar)

• Industrial control panels and instrumentation

• Utilities including steam, compressed air and water systems

This is a hands-on industrial site where practical engineering ability is valued.

Essential Experience & Qualifications as a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer:

• Time-served Electrician / Electrical Engineer

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering

• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations

• Experience in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments

• Strong electrical fault-finding skills

• Experience with motors, inverters, control circuits and panels

• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings

• Comfortable working shifts in a continuous production setting

Desirable Experience for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer

• Experience within paper manufacturing or continuous process industries

• PLC fault-finding capability

• Knowledge of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience

• Instrumentation and calibration experience

• Test & Inspection qualification

• Experience improving and maintaining ageing plant assets

The Ideal Engineer

You'll be someone who:

• Takes pride in improving equipment rather than replacing it

• Has a strong reliability mindset

• Thinks proactively and analytically

• Enjoys solving complex faults

• Wants to influence plant performance and site standards

• Values engineering craftsmanship

What's On Offer

• Competitive base salary

• Overtime paid at 1.5x

• Strong earning potential

• 10 consecutive days off per month

• Stable, well-established manufacturing site

• A role where engineering genuinely makes the difference