Electrical Shift Engineer - PLC & Automation (Mon-Fri)

Hunter Selection; March; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Pension + X4 Life Assurance

25 Days Holiday + Bank Holidays

Discounted Memberships

24/7 EAP

Job summary

Hunter Selection is recruiting an electrically biased shift engineer for their flagship UK site in March, Cambridgeshire. The role offers a salary of £47,000 with overtime on a Mon-Fri 3-shift pattern (6-2 / 2-10 / 10-6).

You’ll work on production and packaging machinery, perform PPMs, and support improvements across electrical and control systems. Candidates should be qualified to Level 3 in electrical engineering, with PLC fault-finding skills and CMMS experience.

Qualifications

• Must be an experienced electrical biased engineer or industrial electrician.
• Level 3 qualified or higher in electrical engineering - apprenticeship trained.
• PLC - electrical fault finding skills.
• Must have worked in fast-paced manufacturing previously.
• Willingness to learn and suggest improvements.
• Strong computer skills - using automated CMMS systems.
• Able to read & follow electrical & pneumatic schematics & drawings.
• Team player, but able to work on own initiative when needed.
• Experience with high-speed production, processing & packaging machinery.

Responsibilities

• Carry out PPM's, reactive maintenance & continuous improvement projects.
• Industrial electrical fault finding & problem solving, along with minor mechanical repairs.
• Support reliability engineering, looking to make things run more efficiently.
• Work on various production & packaging machinery, conveyors, automation & control systems.
• PLC - electrical fault finding.
• Use and regularly update the CMMS systems.
• Dealing with industrial equipment, motors, sensors, servo drives, proximity systems, control panels, inverters, contactors, gearboxes, drives, pneumatics, hydraulics.

Skills

Electrical bias

Industrial electrician

PLC fault finding

CMMS usage

Reading electrical drawings

Problem solving

Team player

Initiative

Education

Level 3 electrical engineering qualification

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Hunter Selection is recruiting an electrically biased shift engineer for their flagship UK site in March, Cambridgeshire. The role offers a salary of £47,000 with overtime on a Mon-Fri 3-shift pattern (6-2 / 2-10 / 10-6).

You’ll work on production and packaging machinery, perform PPMs, and support improvements across electrical and control systems. Candidates should be qualified to Level 3 in electrical engineering, with PLC fault-finding skills and CMMS experience.