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MAINTENANCE ELECTRICIAN

Job Description

An Outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Electrician. 

Are you a Qualified Maintenance Electrician? Seeking an opportunity to Join a Busy, Friendly Manufacturing / Packaging organisation within the Cheshire Area.  

This exciting opportunity is commutable from the following locations: Winsford / Warrington / Runcorn / Macclesfield / Ellesmere Port. 

Benefits for the Maintenance Electrician Role include:

  • Salary: £44,000 
  • 25 + 8 days Holiday Entitlement 
  • Company Pension - Matched at 4%
  • Plenty of Overtime 
  • Stability & progression Opportunities 
  • Training & Support 

The maintenance electrician will be required to work a 3 shift Rota: Mornings / Afternoons / Nights  

Duties and Requirements for the Maintenance Electrician role: 

  • The role is to join an already existing Maintenance Team within a Busy / Manufacturing & Packaging organisation.
  • Happy to work a Continental Shift and very Flexible.  

Main Duties and Requirements the Maintenance Electrician will Have and Hold. 

  • Previous experience within a Manufacturing / Packaging organisation. 
  • Ideally the right individual will hold a 60/40 Split Electrically Biased – with a Good Knowledge on the mechanical side. 
  • To carry out Planned Maintenance Activities. 
  • Fault finding abilities with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC’s 
  • Other Kit on Site: Hydraulics & Pneumatics / Conveyor systems / Packaging and Labelling and Wrapping Equipment / Temperature controls / HMI’s / Controls / Motors an Drives. 
  • Able to read both Electrical and Mechanical Drawings 
  • Flexibility is key to the role as you maybe required to work a alternative shift. 
  • The right individual will be Apprentice trained holding a formal qualification in Electrical Maintenance engineering.

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

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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.

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  • Secured cark parking. 
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Experience required: 

  • We are looking for a Mechanical biased maintenance engineer. Holding a Minimum of 5 years within Engineering. 
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An exceptional opportunity has arisen for a Maintenance Electrician.

This is an opportunity to join a leading Manufacturing organisation, known worldwide, supplying into Food & Manufacturing organisations. A company who continues to grow and pride themselves on a good working environment.  

The maintenance electrician will be joining an already established Maintenance team and will have support from Senior engineers on site.  

This role is commutable from: Stockport / Stoke-On-Trent / Macclesfield / Denton 

Shift the maintenance electrician will be required to work Monday to Thursday – the option to work 1pm till 11pm or 2pm till 12 o clock.

Benefits: 

  • Salary: £38,000 - £40,000  
  • Pension
  • 21+8 Days holiday
  • Overtime
  • Flexible working hours / 4-day week.   

Industry: Manufacturing / Packaging organisation   

Maintenance Electrician Duties:

  • Trouble shooting and Fault Finding on various machines including Injection Moulding Machines, Extruders, Grinders, Rotational Moulding Machines, and associated ancillaries.
  • Planned Preventative Maintenance.
  • Identifying parts required to carry out repairs and providing details to the Maintenance Manager.
  • Using blueprints, wiring diagrams and manufacturer’s installation manuals to complete projects.
  • Testing of fixed installations.
  • Some building maintenance such as lighting & small power.
  • Installation of 3 phase supplies & associated switchgear.
  • Highlighting potential problems with aging switchgear and advising the correct course of action for rectification.

Maintenance Electrician Requirements:

  • Experience with Siemens and Mitsubishi PLC’s. – Strong fault-finding abilities 
  • Experience with Grinders, Extruders, Injection Moulding machinery. 
  • Ideally experience within Single and 3 phase systems. 
  • Dealing with some Plant maintenance such as Lighting and Small power. 
  • Must be Apprentice trained, holding a Formal qualification in Electrical engineering. 
  • 17th or 18th Edition trained/compliant.
 

 

We are an established Manufacturing / Textiles organisation with a proven record of providing Quality Products. Offering Stability and a supportive work Environment. 

The position of Maintenance Electrical will offer you the opportunity to join an established team and will offer you to grow professionally into the organisation. 

Multi-Skilled ability – 60/40 Split

Benefits the maintenance electrician will receive: 

  • Salary: £35.000
  • Shift: Days only Monday to Friday – Flexible on Start and finishing times  
  • Pension,
  • 25+8 Days holidays
  • Life Assurance
  • Parking
  • Canteen

The Maintenance electrician will hold the following: 

  • Experience in an engineering maintenance or service role is essential. 
  • Holding fault finding abilities with Siemens and Allen Bradley PLC’s 
  • Excellent fault -finding skills are crucial, especially; motor drives, temperature controllers, able to fault find on PLC and other control systems.
  • Competent in mechanical repairs
  • Experience carrying out preventative maintenance tasks.
  • Ability to facilitate repairs under pressure.
  • Flexible and able to adapt to situations as they occur.
  • Able to work in a team and independently.
  • IT literate; including Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, Outlook,), Gradus CMMS system.
  • Familiar with building maintenance tasks
  • Apprentice trained. 
  • Educated to HNC in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
  • Extensive Electrical knowledge 17th Edition – progressing to 18th.
  • Full valid UK Driving Licence
  • Flexible – as you may be required to travel to alternative sites on occasions. 

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Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

  • Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 
  • Great Training and progression opportunities 
  • Company Pension 
  • Secured onsite Parking. 
  • Plenty of overtime 

Shift in place: Continental – 4on-4off systems – 2days-2nights. 12 hours Shift. 

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  • Carry out planned preventative maintenance 
  • Complete maintenance work orders, use of CMMS systems 
  • Be able to communicate at all levels throughout the business 
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Benefits the Maintenance Engineer will receive: 

  • Position: Maintenance Technician – Mechanically Biased 
  • Location: Wigan 
  • Shift: Continental 4Days on – 4Days off / 4Nights on – 4Nights off  
  • Salary: £38.470
  • Benefits: Pension, 20days holiday, Overtime, Parking, Canteen  

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The ideal Maintenance Engineer will hold: 

We are seeking to recruit a proven Maintenance Eechnician with proven skills both mechanically and electrically to join our plant maintenance and reliability team to support our operation within the Wigan Region 

  • You must be qualified Mechanically and hold a multi skilled Maintenance Engineer ability having gained your experience of supporting plant within a heavy engineering environment such as chemical processing, oil refineries, quarrying, recycling, power generation, steel works or within a heavy plant overhaul support organisation. 
  • Holding experience with Heavy conveyor systems, Separators, Granulators and blenders, Hydraulics & Pneumatics, Gearboxes. 
  • Ideally you will be Apprentice trained holding a formal qualification with Engineering. 
  • Proven experience within a similar role 

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We have a fantastic opportunity for a qualified Maintenance electrician to join a Manufacturing Specialist within the Greater Manchester Area, are you looking to join a well-established company, a company who Design and manufacture and are a leading UK Organisation. 

Shift the maintenance electrician will be required to work: 8am till 4:30pm 

Benefits the Maintenance electrician will receive:

  • Salary: £19.83 Per hour Earning Over £45,000
  • Monthly bonus scheme
  • 25+8days holiday
  • 8% Pension  

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  • Previous experience within an ATEX Chemical or Process type industry 
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  • Trouble shooting 
  • Planned preventative maintenance. 
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  • Instrumentation experience 
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  • If based in London then London Weighting will be applied on top. 
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  • There may be some overnight stays.
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Birthday off
  • Xmas shutdown
  • Annual leave buy and sell scheme
  • Company sick pay after probation period
  • Pension salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Life assurance after 12 months
  • Career progression and development
  • Active social committee

The ideal Service Engineer must have a full clean driving licence. Be flexible and willing to travel at short notice as appropriate and have an ability to perform under pressure. Some key duties of the role include: 

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  • Attend regular service meetings via teams and head office. 
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My client is looking for a maintenance technical trainer to join their team on a Continental shift pattern. The right person will be a multi-skilled engineer with strong electrical abilities. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer looking to take a step up in their career. 

Maintenance Technical Trainer Benefits:

  • Salary £50,974.56 
  • Premium overtime rates. 
  • Generous holiday entitlement. 
  • 12% Employer Pension Contribution. 
  • Training and progression opportunities.  
  • Xmas Bonus. 
  • Cycle to work. 
  • Volunteering days off. (Paid) 

Maintenance Technical Trainer Duties include:

  • Continental shift rota. 
  • Attend OEM and technical training. 
  • Take technical lead in fault finding and develop step by step guides for engineers to follow. 
  • Create training logs for engineers and apprentices. 
  • Hands on maintenance, preventive and reactive. 
  • Record engineering work with SAP. 
  • Support and cover for engineering supervisors to achieve departmental goals. 

As a Maintenance Technical Trainer Requirements: 

  • Apprentice trained. (Mechanical or Electrical). 
  • Electrically qualified. 
  • Experience with PLC’s ideally Alan Bradley. 
  • Strong IT skills.   
  • Strong fault-finding capabilities. 
  • Health & Safety / Food Safety. 
  • Be knowledgeable in using quality assurance systems and standards. 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

This Maintenance Technical Trainer position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Dudley, Kingswinford, Stourbridge, Wombourne, Bilston, Brierley Hill, and surrounding areas.

 

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Maintenance Team Leader Role Benefits:

  • Salary £50,974.56 
  • Premium overtime rates. 
  • Generous holiday entitlement. 
  • 12% Employer Pension Contribution. 
  • Training and progression opportunities.  
  • Xmas Bonus. 
  • Cycle to work. 
  • Volunteering days off. (Paid) 

Maintenance Team Leader Duties include:

  • Continental shift rota. 
  • Improve and promote safety across site. 
  • Lead a team of multi-skilled engineers. 
  • Focus on departmental KPI’s. 
  • Manage and supervise contractors. 
  • Shift reports. 
  • Planned and reactive maintenance. 
  • Identify and procure critical spares. 

As a Maintenance Team Leader Requirements include: 

  • Apprentice trained. (Mechanical or Electrical). 
  • Previous experience in team leading role. 
  • Strong fault-finding capabilities. 
  • Health & Safety / Food Safety. 
  • Be knowledgeable in using quality assurance systems and standards. 
  • PLC knowledge (advantageous) 
  • SCADA systems (advantageous). 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

This Maintenance Team Leader position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Dudley, Kingswinford, Stourbridge, Wombourne, Bilston, Brierley Hill, and surrounding areas.

 

I have a fantastic opportunity for a maintenance engineer to join a well-known company based near Wolverhampton and Dudley. As an engineer you will have access to high level technical recourses and training, my client has a really low turnover of staff, so opportunities here don’t come up often. 

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  • Salary £47,087.04 
  • Premium overtime rates. 
  • Generous holiday entitlement. 
  • 12% Employer Pension Contribution. 
  • Training and progression opportunities.  
  • Xmas Bonus. 
  • Cycle to work. 
  • Volunteering days off. (Paid) 

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  • Panama shift rota. 
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  • Apprentice trained. (Mechanical or Electrical). 
  • Strong fault-finding capabilities. 
  • Health & Safety / Food Safety. 
  • Be knowledgeable in using quality assurance systems and standards. 
  • PLC knowledge (advantageous) 
  • SCADA systems (advantageous). 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

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Company

This is a great opportunity for a Mobility Product Demonstrator to join a family business where changing people’s lives through the products that they design, manufacture and install is a daily occurrence. With 35 years’ experience under their belt, they are a leading mobility provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. They continue to expand rapidly in the UK and internationally, with this role being part of that growth.

This is a field-based role which will cover the Northwest region. 

Mobility Product Demonstrator Salary and Benefits

  • Salary is dependent on experience
  • Company car (a new vehicle that is fully kitted out)
  • Commission – uncapped (pays on average £1,000 - £2,000 per month)
  • 37.5 hours per week, Monday - Friday
  • 23 days holiday, increasing with service, plus statutory
  • Life Assurance
  • Profit related pay

Commutable From: Manchester, Liverpool, Blackburn, Warrington, Preston Blackpool

Mobility Product Demonstrator Candidate Requirements

  • Previous mobility product experience or similar would be useful but is no essential.
  • Take a proactive approach to understanding customer needs and delivering the right solution for each customer.
  • Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
  • Demonstrate empathy with their customers.
  • Be able to understand the technical aspects of our vehicle adaptations (a level of self-learning is expected in addition to the comprehensive training provided), demonstrate the products effectively and comfortably in a manner that gives the customer the level of confidence they need.
  • Have good IT skills with competency in the MS Office Suite.
  • Be highly organised and self-motivated.
  • Have a clean driving licence.
  • Regular travel and ‘some’ over-night stays are required for this role.

Mobility Product Demonstrator Manager Key Responsibilities

  • Identify and fully understand the customer needs, whether at their home address, a mobility store or a car dealership.
  • Demonstrate the full range of vehicle adaptations offered by the Company.
  • Complete all paperwork accurately and in the required timescales.
  • Attend shows and exhibitions when required. 
  • Demonstrate a technical understanding and ability to learn the technical aspects of each product.

Screening Questions - Must be happy to answer yes to them all to be considered:

1.    Are you technically minded and willing to carry out ongoing self-learning to constantly improve your knowledge?
2.    Do you have a clean driving licence?
3.    Are you flexible to be able to travel in your role with some overnight stays?
4.    Are you eligible to live and work in the UK with fluent English language skills?
5.    Have you previously worked mobile and are happy with minimum 3 hours driving each day?