Electrical Maintenance Engineer

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Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Desford
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (Days & Nights)
Salary: £57,000 + up to £3,000 annual bonus
Pension: Up to 15% total (10% employer, 5% employee)
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a large engineering team at a state-of-the-art, highly automated manufacturing facility. This is a brand-new, high-volume production site-set to become one of the fastest in Europe-offering excellent training, modern equipment, and long-term progression.
This position has become available due to an engineer leaving, creating an excellent opportunity for a strong electrically-biased engineer to join a well-supported and forward-thinking team.
Key Responsibilities
Provide electrical maintenance, fault finding, and repair across a variety of automated manufacturing equipment.
Work on conveyors, mixers, ovens, kilns and other large-scale industrial machinery.
Support continuous improvement, reliability, and efficiency across the site.
Work within a large engineering team (approx. 20 engineers), ensuring safe and efficient operation of all equipment.
Complete handover processes daily (5:30-6:00).
Participate in holiday cover to reduce banked hours (296 hours reducing to 206 after handover deductions).
Undertake planned and reactive maintenance in a dusty, fast-paced FMCG/industrial environment.
Overtime & Hours Structure
You will have 206 banked hours annually (equivalent to 18 days of overtime per year ).
These hours can only be reduced through holiday cover.
Weekend holiday cover = time and a half deduction .
Any overtime not related to holiday cover = paid at time and a half .
Essential Requirements
Electrically qualified (City & Guilds / NVQ / HNC or equivalent).
Strong electrical bias with excellent fault-finding skills.
Experience in FMCG or heavy industrial environments .
Experience with industrial electrical panels.
Exposure to automation, complex machinery, and fast-paced engineering settings.
Desired Skills
Siemens experience (including Siemens S7 )-desirable but not essential.
Ability to work within highly automated environments.
Experience in large production or manufacturing facilities.
Benefits
Up to 15% total pension (company contributes 10% when you contribute 5%).
Strong training and development opportunities.
Chance to work at a brand-new, cutting-edge automated site with major production output.
Progression opportunities within a large engineering function.
Working Environment
Dusty industrial environment.
Highly automated systems and robotics.
Fastest producing site in Europe (target).
Large, supportive engineering team (approx. 20 engineers).
Interview Process
Stage 1:
Informal technical discussion with Carl, reviewing your CV and experience.
Stage 2:
On-site technical assessment with an engineer.
Bring overalls & safety shoes.
Walk-through of site.
Basic practical test (panel work, fault finding).

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Location:
Coalville
Salary:
£60,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Skilled Trades

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