Role: Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Maintenance Electrician
Salary: £48,500 per annum + overtime & benefits
Hours: Panama Shift Pattern, 6 till 6, days and nights (Working 7 of every 14 Days)
Location: Bishop Auckland Area - Commutable from Durham, Darlington, Billingham, Stockton on Tees, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Sunderland, Eggleston, Consett and surrounding areas.

This superb heavy plant manufacturing company offer genuinely challenging and rewarding careers for their Engineers and they are currently looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer / Maintenance Electrician who wants to be part of an established, loyal and successful team.

If you're after a role where you will have opportunities to develop your electrical skills and progress, coupled with getting involved in a range of work from reactive repairs and PPM to undertaking installations & improvement projects, then this job is for you!

The site prides themselves on being self-sufficient, not relying on outside contractors for most projects, so the maintenance teams get fully involved in most of the full Lifecyle of work. They also provide training and up-skilling where required ie. programming or PLC's - both fault finding and programming, although ideally you will have some of these advanced skills already.

Responsibilities

Your role will be to focus on Electrical Maintenance and Engineering work in the factory, including:
Supporting a wide range of heavy equipment and machinery including conveyors, mixing and robotics machinery.
Working through a planned preventative maintenance program as well as project and continuous improvement work.
Providing reactive maintenance, attending to and resolving breakdowns swiftly and getting production lines back up and running again.
Installing, maintaining & troubleshooting VSD Drives and PLC's.

Requirements

The Maintenance Electrician will need to have completed a recognised Electrical Engineering Apprenticeship or hold Electrical Engineering qualifications at NVQ/C&G Level 3 or above.
Are experienced in performing reactive & PPM Electrical maintenance work within an industrial and/or heavy manufacturing environment.
Ideally will have experience of PLC Fault Finding - programming skills are useful, additionally experience with VSD Drives is beneficial.

Can diagnose and repair Electrical Motors and Pneumatics.
Are open to & willing to learn and develop your skills further, together with sharing your knowledge and experience with the team.
A friendly, proactive and adaptable attitude to work is essential.
Good knowledge of and strict adherence to Health & Safety.

If this role sounds of interest, please apply now and send your most up to date CV to Alec at TechNichols Resourcing to be considered. Or call TechNichols Resourcing and speak with Alec for further information.

We will endeavour to get back to all applicants but if you have not heard back within 5 working days unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful