Lead Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Proman UK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Company pension

Healthcare - BUPA

Life Assurance

Job summary

Proman UK in Wigan (Standish or Pemberton Site) seeks a Lead Electrical Maintenance Engineer to support the Maintenance Manager. You will supervise technicians and drive projects from concept to delivery, ensuring production runs smoothly.

This role requires strong fault-finding, experience in a manufacturing, regulated environment, and commitment to health and safety. You will develop the team, manage overhauls, and use data to inform decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a maintenance role within a manufacturing environment.
• Completed an Electrical or Mechanical apprenticeship.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong technical fault-finding and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience working within highly regulated environments.
• Strong commitment to health, safety, and maintaining the highest standards of work.
• Desirable: BEng (Hons) Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Promote and utilise the CMMS with detailed inputs by all team members.
• Deputise for the Maintenance Manager as required.
• Monitor equipment condition, reporting abnormalities and risks.
• Set clear priorities and ensure the function is well organised for preventive maintenance.
• Identify replacement parts and order via approved channels.
• Manage change requests for replacements not like-for-like.
• Ensure tasks are completed safely while driving continuous improvement.
• Diagnose issues across a range of equipment with cross-functional teams.
• Communicate timelines for equipment overhauls and return to service clearly.
• Use data to drive decision making.
• Develop and action training and development needs for the team.

Skills

Fault finding

Team leadership

Communication

Regulated environments

Health and safety

Electrical apprenticeship

Education

BEng (Hons) Electrical/Electronic Engineering

COMPEX Certification

18th Edition Wiring Regulations Qualification

Electrical or Mechanical apprenticeship

Tools

CMMS

Job description

Lead Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Wigan (Standish or Pemberton Site)

Monday to Friday from 8am to 4.30pm

Salary Depending on Experience

The Role:

This role is to support the Maintenance Manager in leading the direct and wider teams to support the effective running of production. Direct day-to-day supervision of technicians is required whilst also seeing projects through from concept to delivery.

Responsibilities:

• - Ensure that the internal CMMS is promoted and utilized with detailed inputs by all team members
• - Effectively deputise for the Maintenance Manager as required
• - Monitor equipment condition, reporting abnormalities and risks
• - Set clear priorities and ensure the function is well organised, with resource focused effectively on preventative maintenance and opportunities of greatest importance to the business
• - Identify replacement parts and order via approved channels
• - Undertake management of change requests for approval when replacements are not like-for-like
• - Ensure all tasks are completed safely whilst always looking at ways to improve, audit personnel task completion and feedback when standards are below expectations
• - Confidence in diagnosing issues across a range of equipment whilst working with cross functional teams to support investigations
• - Ensure timelines for equipment overhauls and return to service are communicated clearly, concisely and persuasively
• - Use data to drive decision making
• - Effectively manage team members ensuring that training and development needs are identified and actioned

The Candidate:

Essential:

• Proven experience in a maintenance role within a manufacturing environment
• Completed an Electrical or Mechanical apprenticeship
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong technical fault-finding and problem-solving abilities
• Experience working within highly regulated environments
• Strong commitment to health, safety, and maintaining the highest standards of work

Desirable:

• BEng (Hons) Degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Essential:

• COMPEX Certification
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations Qualification

Benefits:

• 33 days - includes bank holiday entitlement
• Company pension - Company contributes 3% and the employee contributes 5%
• Healthcare - Eligible for BUPA cover after 6 months probationary period
• Life Assurance

Our clients and their customers come from diverse backgrounds and so do we. We hire our people from various walks of life, each of whom make our company stronger with their talent, uniqueness, and expertise. This is what makes our company special; if you want to help us grow and take this ethos to our clients, then we cannot wait to collaborate with you!

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