Electrical Engineer (Food Manufacturing)

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? Electrical Engineer (Food Manufacturing)

?? Wigan | ?? Up to £42,000 | Permanent | Site-based
If you're an Electrical Engineer who loves a proper fault-find, keeps calm during breakdowns, and gets a genuine buzz out of keeping machinery uptime high I've got a great one for you.
I'm recruiting for an Electrical Engineer role at a busy food manufacturing site in Wigan . You'll report into the Engineering Manager and play a key part in keeping production running smoothly through a mix of reactive maintenance, PPM, and improvements across plant machinery, utilities and site services.
This is an electrically biased role, but they do want someone who's happy to get involved in the basic mechanical side too when needed.

?? The package

Salary: up to £42,000

Permanent role

Site-based in Wigan

What you'll be doing

Reactive maintenance on breakdowns (minimising downtime)

Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) across plant and equipment

Electrical maintenance across machinery, buildings, services and utilities

Fault-finding and repairs (including PLC-related work)

Identifying improvements and helping implement fixes

Occasional installation work, but mainly focused on maintenance and uptime

Food manufacturing environment, so H&S, hygiene and food safety are taken seriously (and you'll be backed with the right processes and standards).

Must haves ?

Electrical apprenticeship served (essential)

Strong manufacturing maintenance background

Confident with reactive + planned maintenance

Nice to haves ??

HNC preferred

PLCs (ideally Mitsubishi/Siemens)

18th Edition (C&G 2382-22)

Food manufacturing experience

5+ years experience

If you're open to hearing more, drop me a message and I'll send the full details over.

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Location:
Wigan
Salary:
£40,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Manufacturing;Engineering

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