Electrical maintenance engineer

ATA Recruitment; Leicester; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Electrical Maintenance Engineer for an exciting opportunity in Leicester. This role involves utilizing your electrical skills to perform reactive and planned maintenance on a diverse range of equipment. You'll be responsible for fault finding, installation, and ensuring the plant runs smoothly. With competitive hourly rates and the potential for long-term extension, this position offers immediate start and a chance to work in a dynamic environment. If you have a recognized electrical qualification and experience in maintenance engineering, this is the perfect opportunity for you to make an impact.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rates

Immediate start

Potential for long term extension

Qualifications

• Must have a recognized Electrical qualification.
• Experience as a Maintenance Engineer in an automated environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance.
• Fault finding and installation of electrical panels and motors.

Skills

Electrical Qualification

Maintenance Engineering

Fault Finding with Multimeters

Electrical Installations

Education

Recognized Electrical Qualification

Tools

Multimeter

PLC (Siemens S5 & S7)

Job description

Electrical Maintenance Engineer, £53,820, health care cash plan, 9% pension, holiday allowance,

Shifts: 4 on 4 off (2d2n)

ATA is supporting a large manufacturing group who are looking to add an experience maintenance electrician to their team. With over 200 years of experience, this group has a well-established history of delivering sustainable packaging products to various industries, including Food, Beverage, Retail and E-commerce. The group are a true global leader within their field, operating across 40 plants in 17 countries, employ over 6,000 staff and turnover an impressive £2billion.

This site in Leicestershire has been at the heart of the community for over 40 years with a lot of their employees being at the site for near its full tenure including the plant manager who started on the shop floor. The site has always offered a great place to work and with investment plans on the horizon, it will soon become the groups UKs flagship site.

About the role

As a maintenance electrician on this site, your role will be varied but include a mix of fault finding on electrical systems, electrical installation work, reactive maintenance (breakdowns), PPM on machinery on site which includes lots of conveyor systems, and other plant machinery. You will be working on a variety of electrical components including relays, inverters, control panels, sensors, AC drives, star delta and 3 phase motors.

About you

To be considered for this line maintenance technician you should be/have the following:

• Strong electrical knowledge and practical experience
• You should have experience fault finding electrical inside control panels and experience on PLC systems
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience stripping and rebuilding a variety of electrical systems
• Ideally you would have completed an electrical NVQ level 3 qualification or an apprenticeship

Benefits

Joining our client as an electrical maintenance engineer, you will receive a host of benefits. You will be joining a company who put personal development and growth at the forefront of everything they do. Personal development can take many forms, but here, it could include technical growth and progression into senior positions. The group prefer to promote from within, this has been demonstrated many times across the business. The current plant manager started on site as an apprentice.

If you feel like you are the electrician maintenance engineer for this role and would like to hear more about, please press apply, call AJ on 07701326339 or email on [e-mail]

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation