Company: CAF (Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles)
Location: Newport
Posted: April 21st, 2026
We are looking for a practical, hands‑on Multi‑skilled maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) with strong electrical experience to carry out day‑to‑day maintenance activities on site. This role focuses on installation, preventative and reactive maintenance, fault finding, and continuous improvement of electrical infrastructure, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and company standards. HV experience is highly desirable (Training can be provided to the right candidate).
Carry out electrical installations and minor mechanical installations and repairs. Become the site’s electrical lead (AP) for both LV & HV. Carry out planned maintenance inspections of plant and facilities as required, both electrical and mechanical, including emergency lighting checks, compressed air checks, and fire extinguisher checks, and provide feedback on completed checks including any remedial action required. Perform preventative and reactive maintenance (both electrical and mechanical), manage the CMMS System to deploy the PM plan, diagnose and repair faults efficiently to minimise downtime, and manage specialist contractors on site, including issuing permits. Support plant upgrades, either by proposing or executing small projects, participate in the site’s daily tier meetings, provide the appropriate level of support, manage projects using Management of Change, provide out‑of‑hours support when required, cover for the Maintenance Manager when they are unavailable, oversee engineering works out‑of‑hours, conduct electrical isolations, manage contractors, investigate HSE matters, advise actions, supervise multiple teams of contractors, approve contractor risk assessments, issue permits, drive a MEWP (IPAF class 3A and 3B), drive a crane (desirable), inspect and tag lifting accessories (desirable), inspect and repair industrial racking as per SEMA standards (desirable), modify electrical circuits for small projects, configure managed switches for site‑wide upgrades, undertake more detailed scheduled inspections, and repair defects identified by inspections.