Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Job Description

Electrical Maintenance Engineer£44,000 - £48,0004 on 4 off (days/nights) with 14 day breaksPeterboroughgap technical are proud to be representing this global manufacturing business in their search for a Electrical Maintenance Engineer to work at a Brand New Manufacturing facility based near PeterboroughThe purpose of the Electrical Engineer role is to maintain all electrical equipment, machinery, auxiliary instruments, and gauges, ensuring minimum disruption to production and compliance with safety requirements across the plant.You will be working on new designs, both independently and alongside design and test engineers to devise innovative solutions to maximise line efficiency and support production output. You will also provide technical support to manufacturing teams.Performance Objectives

• Carry out and record maintenance work on machines and equipment, ensuring compliance with electrical safety legislation
• Comply with planned electrical maintenance schedules
• Update electrical programmes and associated programmes to ensure that information is current
• Conduct research into the development and implementation of new and existing equipment
• Perform statutory inspection and testing procedures, and safety inspections as per agreed schedule
• Ensure care of plant instrumentation and undertake any servicing or calibration required
• Provide flexible support across all manufacturing departments, where safety and training allow
• Maintain an understanding of electrical safety legislations and regulations and ensure compliance with both

Fault Finding and Repair

• Determine the nature of faults or breakdowns from information received from production personnel and interrogate the equipment
• Analyse the symptoms of the fault, make initial assessments and if required report faults via usual reporting channels
• Rectify faults and return the equipment to full production, in a safe and timely manner
• Utilise logical fault-finding techniques to check through circuits, consulting with electrical drawings and using test equipment (e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic probe) etc., or VDU programme details as appropriate
• After establishing and making good on rectification of faults, or if temporary actions are required to assist production, show awareness of how such actions impact on production and production personnel by ensuring full communication to all concerned

Installation and Modification

• Install or commission new equipment in conjunction with project support, external contractors, and suppliers
• Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a CAD system; write up relevant PLC programmes
• Recommend and implement improvements to line and ancillary equipment
• Install hardware for modifications to the line, which can include mechanical containment of any nature, conduit, sensors, relays, range of PLCs, logic systems, level equipment, instrumentation, motors, control equipment etc.

Person Specification

• L3 Apprenticeship (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering (with an electrical bias)
• Lean Manufacturing knowledge (5S, Kaizen & 7 wastes) advantageous
• Experience in a manufacturing background would be highly desirable

ApplyPlease send your CV and call Alex at gap technical onIf you have any questions or are interested in any other opportunities we may have, please do not hesitate to contact onThis vacancy is being advertised on behalf of gap technical who are operating as an employment agency.