Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Biased)

Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Biased)
Central Cambridgeshire (PE15)

Commutable from: Huntingdon, St. Ives, Peterborough, Wisbech, March, Ely, Sutton, Chatteris

Working Hours: Monday - Friday Double Days (6-2 / 2-10)

Salary: £43,000

Company Overview: Our client is a leading food manufacturing & packaging company, part of a larger national organisation. Due to growth and further expansion within the factory, they are looking for an electrical biased maintenance engineer to join their team.

Role & Responsibilities:

1. Carry out PPM's, breakdowns, fault finding, testing & inspection of all production & packaging machinery
2. Electrical & mechanical fault finding & repairs
3. PLC - electrical fault finding
4. Dealing with high-speed production lines & packaging machinery
5. Working on sensors, motors, control panels, contactors, relays, hydraulics, pneumatics, gearboxes
6. Site services / facilities - water treatment plant, boilers, steam systems, BMS
7. Continuous improvement project work
8. Monitoring and ordering of spares & parts

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

1. Must be an electrically biased maintenance engineer
2. Qualifications needed: minimum City & Guilds Electrical Installation
3. Time-served Apprenticeship trained
4. Ideally have 17 th or 18 th Edition Electrical
5. Strong electrical & mechanical fault finding and problem solving skills
6. Comfortable working on own when needed
7. Must have worked in food manufacturing or packaging
8. PLC - electrical fault finding skills
9. Mechanical fabrication, fitting, welding would be beneficial
10. Happy working on production machinery, site services & facilities

Application Process: To apply please email your CV / resume to .

Contact: Chris Gumm -

Please note that due to the high volume of applications, we can only respond to applicants whose skills & qualifications are suitable for this position. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.