Engineer - Electrical

HEYSHAM PORT LTD; Greenock; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Matched pension 10%

Flexible benefits

Training & development

Employee wellbeing support

Job summary

Peel Ports is seeking an Electrician to join the Clydeport Engineering Department at Greenock Ocean Terminal to perform planned and reactive maintenance on electrical equipment.

You will work toward authorised person for HV and LV, use fault finding equipment, and ensure safety standards while keeping downtime to a minimum. Occasional travel to other sites within the cluster may be required.

Qualifications

• You'll be a time served electrician, with experience of maintaining heavy plant and machinery.
• Experience using fault finding diagnostic equipment.
• Willing to work at heights, understand work systems and accident reporting with a commitment to maintaining Health and Safety standards.
• Previous High Voltage and Three Phase experience is desirable

Responsibilities

• Perform planned and reactive electrical maintenance on heavy plant and machinery.
• Work towards appointed authorised person for HV and LV systems.
• Utilise fault finding diagnostic equipment and minimise downtime.
• Travel to other sites within the cluster as required

Skills

Time served electrician

Fault finding

Health and Safety

High voltage experience

Tools

Diagnostic equipment

Job description

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Date: 12 Aug 2026

Location: Greenock, GB, PA16 8UU Glasgow, GB, G51 4SD

Your Role

As an Electrician, you join the Clydeport Engineering Department, based at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, to safely and effectively complete planned and reactive maintenance work, ensuring all electrical equipment is compliant with current standards and legislation, with zero defects to maximise customer satisfaction. You will work towards appointed authorised person for HV and LV systems as per the Peel Ports Electrical Safety Management Systems

You will use fault finding diagnostic equipment to ensure the reactive maintenance impact is minimised as well as resolving unplanned failures in a timely manner to meet reliability targets, proposing tactical solutions to ensure activities stay on schedule. You will expand your skills to become multi skilled in mechanical and electrical engineering to contribute to the ongoing success of the team. This role will be shift based.

What you'll bring

You’ll be a time served electrician, with experience of maintaining heavy plant and machinery and be used to working effectively in a critical and busy environment. Alongside this, you will also have:

• Experience using fault finding diagnostic equipment, with strong fault finding skills.
• Willing to work at heights, understand work systems and accident reporting with a commitment to maintaining Health and Safety standards.
• Previous High Voltage and Three Phase experience is desirable

Whilst predominantly based at Greenock travel to other sites within the cluster to provide cover may be required on occasion.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• Salary up to £49,955.31
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required