Electrical Engineer

Sleaford, Lincolnshire | Food Manufacturing | Rotating Days & Nights

£58,000 + benefits

Are you an Electrical Engineer with strong industrial fault-finding experience looking for a well-paid shift role in a high-output manufacturing environment?

We're recruiting an Electrical Engineer for a large-scale poultry processing site in Sleaford, part of a major European food group supplying leading retail and foodservice customers.

This is a hands-on electrical engineering role working directly on production and packaging equipment, with responsibility for breakdown response, planned maintenance and improving equipment reliability.

4 on / 4 off | Rotating Days & Nights

Days: 05:30-17:30
Nights: 17:30-05:30

A structured continental shift pattern with significant time off between rotations.

You'll provide electrical engineering support across a busy production environment, keeping equipment running safely and efficiently.

You'll be responsible for:

• Electrical fault-finding and breakdown response

• Working on single and three-phase systems

• Fault-finding on motors, drives, sensors and control systems

• Planned preventative maintenance

• Repairing and servicing production equipment

• Using SAP to record maintenance activity, labour and parts

• Supporting OEE and reliability improvements

• Reducing repeat failures and equipment downtime

• Working with engineering leadership and external engineers on complex faults

• Safe isolation and Lock Out / Tag Out procedures

• Supporting the training of colleagues and apprentices

Electrical experience is essential.

You'll ideally have:

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Electrical Engineering

• Strong industrial electrical fault-finding experience

• FMCG, food manufacturing or other high-output manufacturing experience

• Experience with single and three-phase systems

• Knowledge of motors, drives, sensors and control systems

• PLC diagnostic experience

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Ability to work safely and make decisions under pressure

You don't need to be a PLC programmer, but you should be confident using PLCs for diagnostics and fault-finding.

SAP or other CMMS experience is useful but not essential.

• £58,000 salary

• 4 on / 4 off rotating days and nights

• Competitive holiday entitlement

• Pension contribution

• Life assurance

• Family-friendly policies

• Learning and development opportunities

• Long-term opportunity with a major food manufacturing group

• Ongoing investment in engineering and site capability

This is a high-output, technically varied manufacturing environment where engineering reliability directly impacts production.

If you're an electrically qualified engineer looking for £58k, a 4-on/4-off shift pattern and genuine industrial engineering work, this is a strong opportunity.

Electrical Engineer | Sleaford | £58,000 | 4 On / 4 Off | Days & Nights

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