Industrial Electrical & Instrumentation Technician

Discover Recruitment; Workington; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Discover Recruitment is seeking an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a busy engineering team in a high-hazard industrial manufacturing environment. The role emphasizes preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring safe, reliable and compliant operation of plant equipment with safety as a top priority.

Responsibilities include safe maintenance and installation of electrical, control and instrumentation systems, fault-finding on PLC/DCS, and contributing to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Electrical, Control & Instrumentation apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in a regulated industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience in hazardous areas (ATEX/DSEAR desirable).
• Strong fault-finding skills on PLC, DCS, control and instrumentation systems.
• Familiarity with CMMS.

Responsibilities

• Carry out electrical, control and instrumentation maintenance and installation safely and to a high standard.
• Fault-find on PLC/DCS control systems and instrumentation.
• Conduct inspections, testing, preventative maintenance and reliability-based maintenance.
• Support permit-to-work, isolation, risk assessment and safe system of work processes.
• Assist with plant modifications, upgrades and new equipment installations.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary engineering team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement, reliability and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support training and mentoring of colleagues where required.

Skills

Fault-finding

Maintenance planning

Teamwork

Communication

Education

NVQ Level 2 in relevant discipline

COMPEX certification desirable

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Discover Recruitment is seeking an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a busy engineering team in a high-hazard industrial manufacturing environment. The role emphasizes preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring safe, reliable and compliant operation of plant equipment with safety as a top priority.

Responsibilities include safe maintenance and installation of electrical, control and instrumentation systems, fault-finding on PLC/DCS, and contributing to continuous improvement.