Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer – Electrical and Mechanical

Electrical biased - Regular days - 37 hours per week basic hours

Salary / rate: £20 to £21 per hour + overtime + insurance depending on experience
Job type: Permanent position, immediate start
Location: Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
Posted: 30/6/2026
Hours: 7-30am to 4-30pm mon to thurs; 7-30am to 2pm every other Friday (making a 9 day fortnight) – with some ad hoc overtime (obviously as this is a maintenance role)

Maintenance Engineer – Electrical and Mechanical - Benefits:

• 24 days holiday per year
• 2 x basic annual salary death in service benefit
• Sickness insurance (subject to acceptance / conditions from insurance company) of 75% of basic pay for up to 12 months
• 9 day fortnight so lots of long weekends
• Weekday overtime at time + 1/3
• Saturday overtime at time + 1/2

Maintenace Engineer - Electrical and Mechanical - The job:

• Ensure all health and safety maintenance requirements are met and according to schedule
• Breakdowns, planned maintenance and improvement projects
• Electrical upgrades / modernisation / re-wiring 
• Electrical testing 
• Machinery build and installations
• In house power press maintenance (training will be given) – some power press experience would be an advantage but is not essential
• Must be experienced (at least 5 years in an electrical maintenance role) and time served (or modern equivalent) electrician
• Electrical – 17 / 18th edition essential
• Mechanical aptitude essential but the role is electrically biased
• Enthusiasm for hands-on electrical and mechanical engineering and problem solving
• There is always work to do so we are looking for someone happy to use their own initiative and work independently. We have a supportive team environment but, we also value people who are confident in managing their own workload without the need for constant direction.

You will be joining a team of engineers that take pride in and enjoy their work – if you don’t want to get your hands dirty, don’t apply!

This is not an office job.

The Company:

Ashfield Extrusion is a successful profitable company with a very stable workforce and is a good place to work.

As the core of the business is impact extrusion and technical components – pressing, trimming, machining, degreasing, coating and printing – we have a lot of variety. Also, being an unusual and technically difficult process, we are secure in our markets. We have also been growing steadily for a number of years.

Size of the business: approx. 110 people; turnover around £12M

If you have a look on the website you will get a good idea of the range of processes and equipment and the working environment.

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