Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Desford
Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.
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. xsngvjr
* Basic practical test (panel work, fault finding).