Maintenance Engineers

Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £50,000 per year + overtime
Hours: shift basis 

The Role

We are looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join our West midlands   site on a permanent, full-time basis. The role focuses on maintaining, fault finding, and improving a wide range of production and plant equipment.

Key Responsibilities

• Fault finding, servicing, and maintenance of:

  • Production machinery and control systems

  • PLC and computer-controlled systems

  • Plant services and electrical distribution systems

• Carrying out planned and preventative maintenance on:

  • Process systems

  • Safety systems

  • Electrical distribution

• Testing electrical installations using appropriate test and measurement equipment

• Reading and interpreting electrical drawings and schematics

• Supporting and delivering small electrical projects from concept through to commissioning

Project Work Includes

• Designing simple electrical control systems

• Producing electrical drawings

• Ordering components and materials

• Building and installing control systems

• Commissioning new or modified equipment

Skills and Experience Required

• Recognised electrical qualification (Apprenticeship, BTEC, C&G, or NVQ Level 3)

• Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills

• Experience with production plant systems, including:

  • PLCs

  • VSDs and soft starters

  • Weighing equipment

  • Sensors and process control systems

• Experience with scheduled and preventative maintenance

• Confident working from electrical drawings and schematics

Desirable Experience

• PLC programming and software experience, particularly Mitsubishi or Siemens

• Multi-skilled background with mechanical and pneumatic experience

• Inspection and testing qualifications

• Previous experience within the food manufacturing industry