Maintenance Engineer

ATA Recruitment; Wednesbury; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days annual holiday

Life assurance 3x salary

Overtime opportunities

Stable manufacturing environment

Job summary

ATA Recruitment Ltd is seeking an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer in Birmingham to join a well-established manufacturing business. In this role you will fault find, maintain, and install electrical systems across automated production equipment, including presses and welding/fabrication lines.

The position offers a stable Monday–Friday day shift, with a strong emphasis on hands-on problem solving and downtime minimisation in a varied manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Electrical bias with hands-on experience in automated manufacturing
• Experience with fault finding on production equipment
• Experience with electrical installation and commissioning
• Familiarity with Siemens S7 PLCs and Allen-Bradley equipment

Responsibilities

• Electrical fault finding and maintenance across production machinery.
• Electrical installation and commissioning on site equipment.
• Troubleshoot contactors, inverters and machine safety systems.
• PLC fault finding focusing on I/O issues.
• Support reliability and uptime of presses and automated equipment.

Skills

Electrical bias

Fault finding

Maintenance

Electrical installation

Tools

Siemens S7-1200

Siemens S7-1500

Allen-Bradley

Automated machinery

Job description

Maintenance Engineer

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £45,000 per annum OTE 50K

Working Hours: Monday to Friday - Days 7 - 4

The Opportunity

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Electrically biased Maintenance Engineer to join an established manufacturing business with a long-standing presence in the industry.

The company manufactures products for the food, steel and chemical sectors, alongside. With a strong reputation and continued production across five days a week, this is an opportunity to join a stable business offering a consistent Monday-to-Friday day shift.

The site operates a range of automated manufacturing equipment, including presses, stamping machinery, welding and fabrication processes, providing an interesting and varied environment for an electrically biased engineer.

The Role

As an Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for electrical fault finding, maintenance and installation across the site's manufacturing equipment. The role will suit an engineer with a strong electrical background who enjoys hands-on troubleshooting and working with automated machinery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Electrical fault finding and maintenance across production machinery.


• Electrical installation and troubleshooting on a day-to-day basis.


• Fault finding on contactors, inverters and machine safety systems.


• PLC fault finding, including identifying input/output (I/O) issues.


• Working with Siemens PLCs, primarily S7-1200 and S7-1500 systems, alongside some Allen-Bradley equipment.


• Supporting the reliability and efficient operation of presses, automated machinery and associated manufacturing processes.


• Helping minimise downtime and maintain production output.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will ideally have:

• A strong electrical bias, with approximately a 70/30 electrical-to-mechanical skill set or better.


• Experience maintaining and fault finding on automated manufacturing machinery.


• Good electrical fault-finding and installation skills.


• Experience with contactors, inverters and machine safety systems.


• Basic PLC fault-finding knowledge, ideally with Siemens S7 systems.


• A proactive, hands-on approach to maintenance and problem-solving.

What's on Offer?

• £45,000 annual salary


• Monday-to-Friday day shifts.


• 30 days' annual holiday.


• Life assurance at three times salary.


• Overtime available, with flexibility to discuss time off in lieu.


• A stable manufacturing environment with a varied range of machinery.


• The opportunity to work within an established business with a strong track record in the local area.

Interested?

If you're an electrically biased Maintenance Engineer looking for a Monday-to-Friday days role offering a competitive salary, overtime opportunities and a varied manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.

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