Maintenance Electrician

Shift Maintenance Electrician

Location: Gateshead

Salary: Competitive

Benefits:

• Competitive salary package
• Shift allowance included
• Overtime opportunities
• Training & development opportunities
• Pension scheme
• Supportive engineering team environment
• Long-term career stability within manufacturing

The Company:

Our client is a well-established and highly respected manufacturing business operating within a large-scale industrial environment. With continued investment in their site, equipment and engineering function, they are looking to strengthen their maintenance team with the addition of a skilled Shift Electrician.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced production environment where reliability, teamwork and continuous improvement are highly valued.

Working Hours:

12-hour continental shift pattern covering days and nights.

Job Description:

As a Shift Electrician, you will play a key role in maintaining plant reliability and minimising production downtime within a busy manufacturing facility.

You will be responsible for responding to breakdowns, carrying out planned preventative maintenance, fault finding on electrical systems, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across site.

The successful candidate will have strong experience working with PLC-controlled machinery and be confident fault finding on automated equipment within an industrial environment.

Key responsibilities include:

Attending and resolving electrical breakdowns quickly and safely

Carrying out planned preventative maintenance activities

Fault finding on PLC-controlled systems and production equipment

Working with inverters, drives and control systems

Reading, modifying and interpreting electrical drawings

Supporting continuous improvement and reliability projects

Ensuring all work is completed in line with health & safety procedures

Following and adhering to LOTO (Lock Out Tag Out) procedures at all times

Communicating effectively with production and engineering teams during shift handovers

Skills & Experience:

Minimum 5 years’ electrical maintenance experience within manufacturing or industrial environments

17th / 18th Edition qualification

Strong PLC fault finding experience (Allen Bradley desirable)

Experience working on automated production machinery

Ability to diagnose and repair electrical faults efficiently

Experience with preventative maintenance systems

Understanding of electrical control systems and inverters/drives

Experience working safely under LOTO procedures

Strong problem-solving ability and team-working mindset

Desirable:

Allen Bradley PLC programming knowledge

Experience within heavy process, manufacturing, paper, board or industrial environments

Experience working shifts in a 24/7 operation

Experience working with gas systems/processes

Knowledge of root cause analysis and continuous improvement methodologies

Why Should You Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a secure and growing manufacturing business offering long-term stability, technical challenge and career development.

You’ll be part of a skilled engineering team where your electrical fault-finding and PLC experience will be highly valued, with the chance to work on complex automated machinery in a fast-paced environment.

If you are an experienced Electrical Maintenance Engineer or Shift Electrician looking for your next challenge within industrial manufacturing, this role offers excellent earning potential and genuine career progression.