Shift Electrical Maintenance Technician

Biffa Waste Services; Wilton; On-site; GBP 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company committed to engineering excellence and sustainability. This role focuses on driving plant availability through effective maintenance and engineering practices. You'll be responsible for ensuring compliance with health and safety standards while implementing improvements that enhance operational efficiency. With a competitive salary and a strong focus on career development, this opportunity is perfect for those looking to make a meaningful impact in waste management and engineering. Be part of a team that values diversity and innovation, and help shape the future of waste solutions.

Benefits

Ongoing career development

Generous pension scheme

Medical and dental scheme

Retail and leisure discounts

Holiday and travel discounts

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Engineering qualification required, preferably in electrical.
• Experience in maintaining production machinery and fault finding.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high operational availability and efficient breakdown repairs.
• Develop planned preventative maintenance programs to minimize downtime.
• Liaise with external contractors for specific repairs and maintenance.

Skills

Fault finding in control panels

Maintaining production machinery

Electrical engineering

Mechanical maintenance

Education

Engineering qualification (electrical preferred)

Job description

Come and be part of the future of engineering and maintenance operations within Biffa.

Location: Redcar

Salary: £46,460

Hours of work: 2 days, 2 nights, 4 off, repeat (7am - 7pm / 7pm - 7am)

A quick look at the role

The role holder will be responsible for driving plant availability through ensuring all PPM’s, reactive maintenance, engineering, and process improvements are carried out and implemented in a timely manner. The role holder will drive best practice on a daily basis through high engineering, compliance and H&S standards.

Your core responsibilities

• Provide high operational availability, and an efficient breakdown repair service. Diagnosis running faults and ensuring effective repairs and improvements are conducted within minimum time scale.
• Develop and implement a programme of planned preventative maintenance and inspection to minimise downtime, provide records of recurrent faulting and develop engineered solutions to these issues.
• Carry out minor maintenance operations to plant and equipment.
• To liaise with external contractors on specific repairs/maintenance work.
• Keep abreast of changes to health & safety and environmental legislation and company policies to ensure defined standards and best practice are implemented.

Here’s what we require:

• Engineering qualification - electrical preferred
• Maintaining production machinery
• Fault finding in control panels on PLC’s, VSD’s and relay logic circuit
• The following job titles that would be considered for this role would be Multiskilled Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Maintenance Electrical Technician, Maintenance Electrician, Shift Electrician, Maintenance Technician, Shift Engineer, Multi Skilled Electrician Electrical or Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Fitter etc.

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary
• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.