Shift Maintenance Electrician

MRD Recruitment; Ardrossan; On-site; GBP 39,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

MRD Recruitment is seeking a time-served Shift Maintenance Electrician for a manufacturing facility in Ayrshire. You will maintain and improve manufacturing equipment to ensure production runs safely and efficiently.

You''ll carry out planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and support projects, with exposure to motors, pumps, control systems, and electrical documentation. A formal apprenticeship and experience in industrial settings are essential, with shift premiums and enhanced

Qualifications

• Time-served electrical engineering apprenticeship.
• Experience working in an industrial manufacturing or continuous-process environment.
• Strong electrical fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
• Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings.
• Good understanding of health and safety procedures.
• Experience with PLCs, HV networks, furnace control systems, rolling mills, AC/DC drives, safety circuits and 18th Edition wiring regulations would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown repairs.
• Electrical fault finding, diagnostics and troubleshooting across production machinery.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to equipment reliability and performance.
• Working with motors, pumps, control systems and associated electrical equipment.
• Supporting engineering projects, installations and equipment modifications.
• Reading and interpreting electrical drawings and technical documentation.
• Following site safety procedures, including Permit to Work systems.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Fault finding

Reading drawings

Health & safety

PLC experience

Electrical engineering apprenticeship

Education

Time-served Electrical Engineering apprenticeship

Job description

Shift Maintenance Electrician

Ayrshire £39,390-£48,000 including shift allowance

We are recruiting a time-served Maintenance Electrician to join an established engineering team at a manufacturing facility in Ayrshire.

This is an excellent opportunity for an electrically biased maintenance professional with experience in an industrial or continuous-process environment, looking to join a business offering a competitive salary, shift premiums and enhanced overtime rates.

The Role

Working as part of the site engineering team, you will be responsible for maintaining and improving manufacturing equipment and ensuring production operations run safely and efficiently.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown repairs.
• Electrical fault finding, diagnostics and troubleshooting across production machinery.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to equipment reliability and performance.
• Working with motors, pumps, control systems and associated electrical equipment.
• Supporting engineering projects, installations and equipment modifications.
• Reading and interpreting electrical drawings and technical documentation.
• Following site safety procedures, including Permit to Work systems.

About You

To be considered, you should have:

• A recognised, time-served Electrical Engineering apprenticeship.
• Experience working within an industrial manufacturing or continuous-process environment.
• Strong electrical fault-finding and diagnostic skills.
• Experience carrying out planned and reactive maintenance.
• The ability to read and interpret electrical drawings.
• A good understanding of health and safety procedures.

Experience with PLCs, HV networks, furnace control systems, rolling mills, AC/DC drives, safety circuits and 18th Edition wiring regulations would be advantageous.