Contract Electrical Maintenance Engineer in Desford

Electrical Maintenance Engineer (Contract)

Location: Desford
Shift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (Days & Nights)
Salary: £36p/h

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.

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.

Working Environment

• Dusty industrial environment.
• Highly automated systems and robotics.
• Fastest producing site in Europe (target).
• Large, supportive engineering team (approx. 20 engineers).