Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer

Location: Cumbria

Salary: Starting Salary of 45k

About the Role

We are recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join a well-established paper manufacturing site with a strong engineering culture and a real focus on reliability.

This site believes in:

• Reliability‑centred maintenance
• Continuous improvement
• Process optimisation
• Engineering‑led problem solving
• Getting the absolute best performance from existing assets

Shift Pattern & Overtime

Rotating days and nights – an average of 13 shifts per month.

Includes 10 consecutive days off every month and high earning potential.

Overtime paid at time and a half, with regular availability of additional overtime days.

Key Responsibilities

• Electrical maintenance support across production and site services
• Fault finding and repair on a mix of ageing and upgraded equipment
• Work on motors, drives, control panels, PLC‑controlled systems
• Participate in PPM and reactive maintenance
• Support reliability improvements and root cause analysis
• Contribute to small project work and plant modifications
• Work collaboratively with mechanical engineers and operations teams
• Maintain high safety standards in a heavy industrial environment

Engineering Environment

You will work across:

• Paper manufacturing and converting machinery
• Pumps, motors, gearboxes and conveyors
• Variable speed drives (VSDs)
• PLC systems (Siemens, Allen Bradley or similar)
• Industrial control panels and instrumentation
• Utilities including steam, compressed air and water systems

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Time‑served Electrician / Electrical Engineer
• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering
• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
• Experience in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments
• Strong electrical fault‑finding skills
• Experience with motors, inverters, control circuits and panels
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings
• Comfortable working shifts in a continuous production setting

Desirable Experience

• Experience within paper manufacturing or continuous process industries
• PLC fault‑finding capability
• Knowledge of reliability‑centred maintenance (RCM)
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience
• Instrumentation and calibration experience
• Test & Inspection qualification
• Experience improving and maintaining ageing plant assets

The Ideal Engineer

• Takes pride in improving equipment rather than replacing it
• Has a strong reliability mindset
• Thinks proactively and analytically
• Enjoys solving complex faults
• Wants to influence plant performance and site standards
• Values engineering craftsmanship

What’s On Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Overtime paid at 1.5×
• Strong earning potential
• 10 consecutive days off per month
• Stable, well‑established manufacturing site
• A role where engineering genuinely makes the difference

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