Maintenance Engineer

Are you an electrically biased engineer who wants to develop further into PLCs, controls and automation without having to move into a full Controls Engineer role straight away?

This is an opportunity to join a well-established manufacturing site that is prepared to invest in your development, including further PLC and controls training, while giving you exposure to a broad range of electrical maintenance work.

The role would particularly suit someone who has recently completed an electrical apprenticeship or is still relatively early in their maintenance career and wants a genuine route to develop their technical capability.

The Role

You’ll work as part of the site engineering team on a regular days pattern, supporting everything from routine electrical maintenance and testing through to breakdowns, instrumentation and increasingly complex controls work as your experience develops.

Typical responsibilities will include:

• Planned and reactive electrical maintenance
• Electrical fault-finding and breakdown support
• Motors, drives, sensors and instrumentation
• Testing, calibration and electrical inspections
• Control panels and electrical installations
• PLC-controlled machinery
• Supporting continuous improvement activity
• Developing further into PLC diagnostics and controls
• Occasional out-of-hours support when required

What They’re Looking For

You do not need to be an experienced Controls Engineer.

They are more interested in someone with a strong electrical foundation, the right attitude and the ambition to develop.

Ideally, you will have:

• Completed an electrical apprenticeship
• Level 3 electrical qualification or equivalent
• Industrial electrical maintenance experience
• 18th Edition
• Experience fault-finding on production machinery
• Exposure to motors, drives, sensors or PLC-controlled equipment
• A genuine interest in developing further into PLCs and controls

Package

£40,000 basic salary

Plus:

• Business performance bonus of up to 5%
• 26 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Contributory pension
• Discounted medical and dental insurance
• Funded technical development, including PLC/controls training

Working Hours

Monday to Thursday: 8:00am – 4:30pm
Friday: 8:00am – 2:00pm

A level of flexibility is required to support occasional out-of-hours callouts.

Why Consider It? The real opportunity here is progression.

Rather than expecting you to arrive as the finished article, the business wants someone with solid electrical fundamentals who they can develop further into PLCs, controls and automation.

If you’re currently working shifts or feel you’ve hit a ceiling in a basic electrical maintenance role, this gives you the chance to move onto regular days while adding valuable controls skills to your engineering background.