Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Company: Synergi Recruitment
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Job Description:

Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Location: DesfordShift Pattern: 4 on 4 off (Days & Nights)Salary: £60,000Pension: Up to 15% total (10% employer, 5% employee)

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a large engineering team at a state‑of‑the‑art, highly automated manufacturing facility. This is a brand‑new, high‑volume production site‑set to become one of the fastest in Europe-offering excellent training, modern equipment, and long‑term progression. This position has become available due to an engineer leaving, creating an excellent opportunity for a strong electrically‑biased engineer to join a well‑supported and forward‑thinking team.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide electrical maintenance, fault finding, and repair across a variety of automated manufacturing equipment.
  • Work on conveyors, mixers, ovens, kilns and other large‑scale industrial machinery.
  • Support continuous improvement, reliability, and efficiency across the site.
  • Work within a large engineering team (approx. 20 engineers), ensuring safe and efficient operation of all equipment.
  • Complete handover processes daily (5:30‑6:00).
  • Participate in holiday cover to reduce banked hours (296 hours reducing to 206 after handover deductions).
  • Undertake planned and reactive maintenance in a dusty, fast‑paced FMCG/industrial environment.

Overtime & Hours Structure

You will have 206 banked hours annually (equivalent to 18 days of overtime per year).

These hours can only be reduced through holiday cover.

Weekend holiday cover = time and a half deduction.

Any overtime not related to holiday cover = paid at time and a half.

Essential Requirements

  • Electrically qualified (City & Guilds / NVQ / HNC or equivalent).
  • Strong electrical bias with excellent fault‑finding skills.
  • Experience in FMCG or heavy industrial environments.
  • Experience with industrial electrical panels.
  • Exposure to automation, complex machinery, and fast‑paced engineering settings.

Desired Skills

  • Siemens experience (including Siemens S7) – desirable but not essential.
  • Ability to work within highly automated environments.
  • Experience in large production or manufacturing facilities.

Benefits

  • Up to 15% total pension (company contributes 10% when you contribute 5%).
  • Strong training and development opportunities.
  • Chance to work at a brand‑new, cutting‑edge automated site with major production output.
  • Progression opportunities within a large engineering function.

Working Environment

  • Dusty industrial environment.
  • Highly automated systems and robotics.
  • Fastest producing site in Europe (target).
  • Large, supportive engineering team (approx. 20 engineers).

Interview Process

  1. Informal technical discussion with Carl, reviewing your CV and experience.
  2. On‑site technical assessment with an engineer.
    • Bring overalls & safety shoes.
    • Walk‑through of site.
    • Basic practical test (panel work, fault finding)

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Posted: June 25th, 2026