Electrical Maintenance Engineer (Shift) – Bonus & Progression

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

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Contributory pension

Training and development

Job summary

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Basildon, Essex. The role covers 12-hour rotating days and nights, 42 hours per week, with a salary of £45,000–£50,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits.

You’ll fault-find, maintain automated plant, motors, drives and control systems, and work with production to improve reliability. Previous manufacturing/industrial experience is essential.

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.
• Support PLC-controlled machinery and controls.
• Identify repeat faults and improve plant reliability.
• Record maintenance activity through a CMMS.
• Work with production and engineering colleagues.

Skills

Electrical apprenticeship

Industrial maintenance

Fault finding

Motor control

VFD drives

Control circuits

17th/18th Edition

Planned maintenance

Production environment

Education

Electrical Engineering apprenticeship or equivalent

Job description

Andrews Recruitment Group is seeking two Electrical Maintenance Engineers for a major manufacturing site in Basildon, Essex. The role covers 12-hour rotating days and nights, 42 hours per week, with a salary of £45,000–£50,000 plus bonus and excellent benefits.

You’ll fault-find, maintain automated plant, motors, drives and control systems, and work with production to improve reliability. Previous manufacturing/industrial experience is essential.