Night Shift Electrical Maintenance Engineer required for well-established manufacturer based in Leicestershire. This is a permanent career opportunity for a qualified and experienced electrical engineer working a permanent night shift Monday to Friday, 21.30 – 05.30 based in Leicestershire. Working for a leading manufacturer, the package offers a salary of £46000 plus enhanced holiday entitlement, contributory pension scheme and paid overtime.

Your key responsibilities will obviously include the ongoing planned and preventative maintenance within a fast-moving production environment, ensuring that all equipment and services are maintained to the highest Health and Safety and operating standards. The need to reduce engineering down time is crucial, therefore the need to respond rapidly to machine breakdowns and failures is critical, working within the wider engineering team to deliver, develop and improve maintenance schedules.

As a Night Shift Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you will be educated to HNC/ONC and/or NVQ Level 3 in electrical engineering or as a time served engineer, able to evidence at least 3-5 years previous, relevant maintenance engineering experience. Reporting to the site engineering manager, you will need to undertake projects and assist with all on site installations and machinery/equipment assessment. Ideally seeking an engineer with sound PLC Siemens experience and 3 phase control.

As an Electrical Maintenance Engineer, there is an expectation to help train production operators in the operation of site machinery and equipment, endorsing high standards of work output, identifying any areas for immediate remedial action, ensuring that all machinery and equipment performance is maintained at optimum levels.

Naturally, there is a need to comply with all Health and Safety operating procedures, identifying, and managing risk, reporting on any accident, assessing near misses and any property damage caused at any time. A very challenging and rewarding mechanical engineering vacancy that offers career stability.