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Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Job Posted: 11 hours ago

Salary: £ 45,000 - 45,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Beetham

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer 

Location: Cumbria 
Salary: Starting Salary of 45k 
Shift Pattern: Rotating Days & Nights (10 Days off straight per month with a 13 working days per months) 

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 is an opportunity for a true engineer - someone who appreciates both legacy machinery and modern upgrades. This is not a highly automated, high-CAPEX environment where equipment is replaced at the first fault. Instead, this site believes in:

Reliability-centred maintenance

Continuous improvement

Process optimisation

Engineering-led problem solving

Getting the absolute best performance from existing assets

If you enjoy improving plant performance, enhancing reliability, and making meaningful engineering improvements - this is the role for you.

Shift Pattern & Overtime

Rotating days and nights

You will work an average of 13 shifts per month

Includes 10 consecutive days off every month

Excellent work-life balance compared to traditional shift roles

Overtime paid at time and a half

Regular availability of additional overtime days

This pattern offers significant time off while maintaining strong earning potential.

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

This is a hands-on industrial site where practical engineering ability is valued.

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

You'll be someone who:

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 1.5x

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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