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ELECTRICIAN

Job Description

A great temp to perm opportunity is available for an Electrician who is particularly interested in installation work. The company is a leader in a wide range of biomass solutions for the industrial and commercial industry. 

My client is looking for an Electrician to join them who will be traveling to various customer locations across the UK installing Biomass boilers. With a company van, fuel car and paid accommodation including food and drink, my client will truly give you everything you need to get the job done. If this sounds like you, please read on. 

Electrician Benefits:

  • Full time contracted moving to permanent after 3 Month probationary period. 
  • £16 Per Hour. Overtime paid at Time + half after 2PM, OTE earnings £45,000 - £50,000. (This will be reviewed after first 3 months) 
  • 40-week, Overtime paid at Time + half.
  • 28 days holiday – including bank holidays.
  • 3% company pension scheme.
  • Company van + Fuel card
  • All accommodation paid for by company including food & drink while working away.
  • Working week Mon – Fri 
  • 6AM – 2PM working hours 

Electrician Duties: 

  • Travel to customer locations and completing installation tasks in a timely manner.

Electrician Requirements: 

  • Someone with previous installation experience.
  • Electrically trained.
  • 18th edition BS7671
  • Full UK Driving License
  • Willing to travel regularly across the UK. 

This Electrician position is commutable from: Northamptonshire, Rugby, Kettering, Milton Keynes, Beford and surrounding areas.

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Our aim is to help you secure the best possible future for yourself & this is a totally FREE service to all our Candidates.

If you believe that your skills and experience match what we are looking for please call me or APPLY and I will be in touch.

Should you want to learn more about any of our MAINTENANCE, RELIABILITY & SERVICE ENGINEERING vacancies, or should you just want to discuss your particular needs, then please do not hesitate to contact me to have an informal, confidential chat.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Maintenance, Reliability & Service Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

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The Company

For over 60 years, this business has been constantly evolving their product portfolio to meet the demands and ever-changing needs for some of the world’s largest industries. From the design of their first ever product, the business has sustained manufacturing excellence, setting the industry standard.

Today they operate from a purpose built, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northampton, where they routinely design and develop system solutions for bespoke applications.

Due to an increasing volume of sales they now need to expand and strengthen their Engineering department.

Development Engineer Package, Benefits and Hours

  • Salary £40,000 - £45,000
  • 37 hours per week; Monday to Thursday 8:30am – 17:15pm, Fridays 8:30am – 12:30pm
  • 25 days holiday, plus statutory
  • 10% employer pension, 4% from employee
  • Excellent contractual benefits package to include: death in service, income protection benefits and health insurance, together with a non-contractual annual profit share bonus

Commutable From: Northampton, Long Buckby, Leicester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Banbury

Role Overview

The Development Engineer will assist Business Development to provide technical solutions to customer enquiries and study, research and develop ideas for new products and methods used to make them. 

You will be working on a wide range of high-speed rotating machinery, couplings and test rigs of bespoke design that must be functional, reliable, easy and safe to use, including modifying existing products or processes to increase efficiency or improve performance.

Development Engineer Candidate Key Requirements

  • Experience or knowledge of high-speed rotating machinery / rotordynamics or similar would be highly advantageous. 
  • Mechanical Engineering Degree with Aerospace/Automotive/Energy/Oil & Gas background together with 3 to 5 years of demonstrable experience in a similar role.
  • Working knowledge and experience of CAD & PDM (preferably SolidWorks) and FEA tools (preferably ANSYS Workbench and/or SolidWorks Simulation).
  • Ability to create and interpret engineering drawings with GD&T.
  • Abley to perform hand calculations for preliminary design, sizing, and stress assessment of static and rotating components.
  • Material selection ability and knowledge of conventional manufacturing processes.
  • Good understanding of Applied Mechanics, Strength of Materials, Metal Fatigue, Rotordynamics, and Vibrations along with a basic understanding of heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.

Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)

  • The Development Engineer will support the Chief Engineer in providing timely response to new application and product enquiries for driveline components (couplings, torquemeters, spindles etc.) and turnkey test rigs for testing high-speed rotating machines such as e-motors, generators, aero engines, gearboxes, turbines, compressors, pumps, turbochargers etc.
  • Produce innovative designs/ideas and create workable and cost-effective solutions.
  • Assist in product costing and preparation of technical and commercial proposals.
  • Assist in new product development and product improvement activities including brainstorming, design, analysis, supplier selection and testing, creating 3D CAD conceptual designs and 2D drawings.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing, assembly and testing to build in-house R&D test rigs for new product development.
  • The ability to conduct test schedules, document the results and present these findings clearly.