Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Birmingham | Salary: £50,000 per year + overtime | Hours: shift basis
The Role
We are looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join our West midlands site on a permanent, full-time basis. The role focuses on maintaining, fault finding, and improving a wide range of production and plant equipment.
Key Responsibilities
* Fault finding, servicing, and maintenance of production machinery and control systems
* PLC and computer-controlled systems
* Plant services and electrical distribution systems
* Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance on process systems
* Safety systems
* Electrical distribution
* Testing electrical installations using appropriate test and measurement equipment
* Reading and interpreting electrical drawings and schematics
* Supporting and delivering small electrical projects from concept through to commissioning
Project Work Includes
* Designing simple electrical control systems
* Producing electrical drawings
* Ordering components and materials
* Building and installing control systems
* Commissioning new or modified equipment
Skills and Experience Required
* Recognised electrical qualification (Apprenticeship, BTEC, C&G, or NVQ Level 3)
* Strong fault-finding and problem‑solving skills
* Experience with production plant systems, including PLCs, VSDs and soft starters, weighing equipment, sensors and process control systems
* Experience with scheduled and preventative maintenance
* Confident working from electrical drawings and schematics
Desirable Experience
* PLC programming and software experience, particularly Mitsubishi or Siemens
* Multi‑skilled background with mechanical and pneumatic experience
* Inspection and testing qualifications
* Previous experience within the food manufacturing industry
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