Electrical Shift Engineer – 12h Rotating Shifts, Overtime

Hollybank Trustees Ltd; Thirsk; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite canteen

Free onsite parking and charging

Healthcare cashback plan

Job summary

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition in Thirsk is seeking experienced Shift Engineers with an electrical bias to join the Maintenance team at our manufacturing plant. The role operates on a four-week Dupont cycle with 12-hour days/nights, offering generous benefits and a competitive hourly rate with overtime.

The position focuses on proactive maintenance, safety, and reliability, ensuring production efficiency and asset health across the site. A strong electrical background and CMMS experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Qualified or time served in Electrical engineering discipline (required).
• Qualified or time served in Mechanical engineering discipline (desirable).
• Experienced in the use and operation of CMMS
• Reliability Management expertise (FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM)
• Computer literate with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• NEBOSH with a sound knowledge of behavioural safety at site level - desirable
• Legionella and HACCP awareness - desirable
• Experienced in PLC - desirable

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and predictive maintenance of equipment and complete ad hoc repairs in a timely manner and by prioritising works in line with site priorities to ensure that efficient production is maintained
• Assessing the need for spares by ensuring that the critical spares and spares list is up to date and stock is at the required levels and resolve any issues in a timely manner
• Ensuring a safe environment by conducting all servicing and maintenance activities with minimal risk to employees, products and equipment. Champion safety
• Using root cause analysis on breakdowns to identify actions and drive completion of actions to prevent re-occurrence
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed
• Participate in daily and weekly review sessions to drive the improvement throughout the site.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Reliability management

Microsoft Office

PLC

NEBOSH desirable

Legionella awareness desirable

HACCP awareness desirable

CMMS

Tools

CMMS

Job description

INSPIRED Pet Nutrition in Thirsk is seeking experienced Shift Engineers with an electrical bias to join the Maintenance team at our manufacturing plant. The role operates on a four-week Dupont cycle with 12-hour days/nights, offering generous benefits and a competitive hourly rate with overtime.

The position focuses on proactive maintenance, safety, and reliability, ensuring production efficiency and asset health across the site. A strong electrical background and CMMS experience are essential.