Electrical Maintenance Engineer – 12h Shifts, Bonus & Growth

Andrews Recruitment Group; Brentwood; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Andrews Recruitment Group is recruiting two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Essex. You’ll keep production equipment electrically reliable, balancing planned maintenance with reactive breakdown work across motors, drives, controls and related electrical systems.

The role suits someone with an electrical engineering apprenticeship and strong industrial maintenance experience, plus fault-finding skills.

Qualifications

• Recognised electrical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent training.
• Strong industrial electrical maintenance experience.
• Experience maintaining automated production machinery.
• Good fault-finding ability.
• Experience with motors and motor control.
• Inverter drive / VFD experience.
• Knowledge of contactors and control circuits.
• 17th Edition or 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
• Experience of planned and reactive maintenance.
• Comfortable working within a production or process environment.

Responsibilities

• Keep production equipment electrically reliable and available across the site.
• Planned preventative maintenance on production machinery.
• Reactive electrical breakdown response.
• Fault finding across automated plant and control systems.
• Motors, contactors and inverter drives maintenance.
• Electrical repairs and component replacement.
• Supporting PLC-controlled machinery.
• Identifying repeat faults and improving plant reliability.
• Recording maintenance activity through a CMMS.
• Working closely with production and engineering colleagues.
• Maintaining high electrical safety and compliance standards.

Skills

Industrial electrical maintenance

Fault finding

Motors & motor control

VFD / inverter drives

Planned & reactive maintenance

Electrical safety/regulations

Education

Electrical Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent

Tools

Siemens PLCs (S5/S7)

Job description

Andrews Recruitment Group is recruiting two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Essex. You’ll keep production equipment electrically reliable, balancing planned maintenance with reactive breakdown work across motors, drives, controls and related electrical systems.

The role suits someone with an electrical engineering apprenticeship and strong industrial maintenance experience, plus fault-finding skills.