Maintenance Electrician

ATA Recruitment; Botcheston; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the UK is seeking a Maintenance Electrician for a brand-new manufacturing site in Botcheston. This role involves maintaining PLC-controlled automated machinery and offers excellent training and career progression opportunities. The ideal candidate will have an NVQ level 3 in electrical work and strong fault-finding skills. This position offers a competitive salary, bonuses, and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits

Quarterly bonus up to £600

15% total pension contributions

Opportunity to purchase shares

Qualifications

• Experience working with PLC controlled automated machinery.
• Ability to complete planned preventive maintenance.
• Capability to undertake project work and fault finding.

Responsibilities

• Complete planned preventive maintenance.
• React to breakdowns and fault-find using various methods.
• Undertake project work including continuous improvement.

Skills

Strong fault-finding skills

Problem-solving ability

Experience in fast-paced manufacturing

Education

Apprentice trained NVQ level 3 qualification (electrical)

Job description

Maintenance Electrician, £51,500 + £5000 guaranteed overtime, Quarterly bonus up to £600 per Q, 15% total pension contributions, option to purchase shares.

OTE £60K+

4 on 4 off days and nights rotation. 06:00 – 18:00 / 18:00 – 06:00 start half hour earlier for hand over.

Why join our client?

• Opportunity to work within a brand-new manufacturing plant.
• Fantastic employee engagement - over 300 employees have been with the business over 25 years.
• Further development through fantastic internal and external training. They have Pledged to have 5% of employees in pay and learn positions by 2025. For this role, you will
• Real career progression opportunities into senior roles
• Option to buy reduced shares in the business (up 15% within the last 5 years).
• Opportunity to work for a forward-thinking company who have invested over £125m across their sites since 2023.

ATA Recruitment is working in partnership with a major UK manufacturing group to recruit an maintenance electrician for their brand-new, flagship site in Leicestershire.

With roots dating back to the 1960s, this organisation is steeped in British manufacturing heritage. Employing over 2,000 people across 15 sites nationwide, they produce some of the UK’s most well-known and much-loved products.

This new facility marks a significant investment in the future of UK manufacturing. Boasting state-of-the-art equipment and technology unseen anywhere else in the country, it’s set to become Europe’s highest-output factory of its kind once fully operational.

As a Maintenance Electrician, you'll play a key role in shaping the success of this cutting-edge operation from the ground up.

About the role

As a maintenance electrician you will be responsible for maintaining a variety of PLC controlled automated machinery.

Responsibilities will include:

• Completing planned preventive maintenance
• Reacting to breakdowns
• Fault finding using a variety of methods and tools.
• Undertaking project work which can include continuous improvement, root cause analysis and machine upgrade.
• PLC fault finding.

About you

To be considered for this maintenance electrician you should have the following:

Apprentice trained NVQ level 3 qualification (electrical)

Experience working within a fast paced or complex manufacturing environment would be beneficial.

Strong fault-finding skills, the ability to problem solve and rectify faults in a safe and effective manner.

The benefits

This is a fantastic opportunity for engineers to join a forward thinking, reputable business who offer a fantastic training package which includes a market leading salary and pension. You will get the added benefit of working on a completely brand-new site, the largest of its kind in Europe with an engineering manager who is driven by training and development.

If you think you are the right maintenance electrician for this market leader, please press apply, call AJ on 07701326339, or email your CV too [e-mail]

ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website.

ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation