Electrical Maintenance Engineer-Fault-Finding & Reliability

Andrews Recruitment Group; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Contributory pension

Employee discounts and rewards

Training and development

Long-term career progression

Support from a major UK industrial org

Job summary

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Essex. The role keeps production equipment electrically reliable across a fast-moving plant, with 42 hours per week on 12-hour days and nights and a salary in the £45,000–£50,000 band plus bonus and benefits.

You’ll do planned and reactive maintenance on automated machinery, fault finding, motors and drives, control circuits, and PLC-controlled equipment.

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 or 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
• Experience of planned and reactive maintenance.
• Comfortable working in a production environment.
• Siemens PLCs (S5/S7) would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Planned preventive maintenance on production machinery.
• Reactive electrical breakdown response.
• Fault finding across automated plant and control systems.
• Motors, contactors and inverter drives.
• Electrical repairs and component replacement.
• Supporting PLC-controlled machinery.
• Identifying repeat faults and helping improve 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 & drives

VFDs / inverters

Control circuits

Siemens PLCs

Electrical safety & compliance

Education

Electrical apprenticeship or equivalent training

Job description

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Essex. The role keeps production equipment electrically reliable across a fast-moving plant, with 42 hours per week on 12-hour days and nights and a salary in the £45,000–£50,000 band plus bonus and benefits.

You’ll do planned and reactive maintenance on automated machinery, fault finding, motors and drives, control circuits, and PLC-controlled equipment.