Senior Electrical & Instrument Engineer

Hunter Selection; Barry; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 Days + Bank Holidays

Enhanced Pension

Private Healthcare

Salary life insurance

Income protection

Job summary

Hunter Selection is seeking a Senior Electrical & Instrument Engineer for their facility in Barry, South Wales. This role involves leading the site’s electrical and instrumentation infrastructure, ensuring compliance, and driving reliability improvements.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical expertise and a passion for continuous improvement. Benefits include a competitive salary, enhanced pension, and private healthcare.

Qualifications

• Technical expert in all levels of modern instrumentation.
• Competent in maintaining electrical control equipment up to 11KV.
• Experience in engineering and maintenance roles in manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for a safety-first environment.
• Manage site electrical infrastructure and maintenance programs.
• Drive continuous improvement in equipment reliability.

Skills

Electrical control maintenance

Leadership capability

Continuous improvement

Technical expertise

Project management

Tools

PLC systems

Electrical distribution networks

Job description

Senior Electrical & Instrument Engineer

Barry CF64

£50-70,000

Commutable from Cardiff, Newport, Swansea, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Penarth, Pontypridd, Llantrisant, Talbot Green, Merthyr Tydfil, Neath

Benefits

• 25 Days + Bank Holidays which increase with service
• Enhanced Pension
• Private Healthcare
• Salary life insurance
• Income protection for long-term sickness

Our client is a globally recognised manufacturing organisation with a major, high-performing production facility in South Wales. As part of their continued investment in operational excellence and asset reliability, they are looking to appoint an experienced Senior Electrical & Instrument Engineer to provide technical leadership across critical electrical, control and instrumentation systems within a complex, heavy manufacturing environment.

This is a key engineering position offering the opportunity to take ownership of site-wide electrical and instrumentation infrastructure, drive reliability improvements and support ongoing capital investment projects. Working closely with operations, maintenance and site leadership teams, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring statutory compliance, maintaining high engineering standards and delivering safe, reliable plant performance. Ideal for an experienced electrical engineering professional with strong technical expertise, leadership capability and a passion for continuous improvement, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact within a well-invested, industry-leading facility.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to encourage a safety first environment at all times
• Owns and manages the site electrical infrastructure (including 11kv, 415v, lower voltage systems and instrumentation) including maintenance program, upgrades and modifications.
• Owns and manages the site electrical standards and drawings to ensure that they meet legal, corporate and local electrical requirement including safety standards.
• Support the Maintenance supervisor in leadership and management of the Electrical & Instrument Technicians.
• Support the Engineering Manager for control and setting of the site Electrical & Instrumentation maintenance and shutdown budgets.
• Identifies and drives continuous improvement in equipment reliability.
• Take responsibility to ensure that electrical/instrumentation maintenance schemes are in place such that Capital assets fulfill their life expectancy with minimum expenditure.
• Provide Project Management for small scale capital projects for replacement / equipment upgrades.
• Authorized to issue Safe Work Permits (SWP's) for approved contract resource to maintain 11 KV systems work and electrical approver for excavation permits.

Requirements

• Technical expert in all levels of modern instrumentation.
• Competent in full range of maintenance skills of electrical control equipment up to 11KV including transformers, switch rooms, MCC, electrical distribution networks, variable speed drive technology.
• Understanding of ladder logic and ability to perform first line maintenance on PLC system.
• Working knowledge of Hazardous area electrical equipment, maintenance and protection concepts
• Experience in engineering and maintenance roles within a manufacturing industry.
• Experience of Process Safety management.28640/534