Electrical Maintenance Engineer Mon-Fri

Salary: £43,200 per year

Cordius is working with a highly successful and very well-known manufacturing company near Chester City Centre; the company is a global business and one of the UK’s leading building materials suppliers to builder’s merchants nationwide. Currently they are looking for a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join their team on a permanent day-based role.

Location: Chester

Salary: £36,000 + Company Benefits

Hours: Monday to Thursday, 07:00am – 16:30pm and Friday, 07:00am – 11:00am

The successful candidate will, ideally, be a time served, apprenticeship trained electrically biased engineer, with a good working knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic control systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment
• Breakdown response and efficient rectification
• Fault diagnosis and rectification of electrical and mechanical systems involving PLC control
• Achieve team and individual targets
• Complete and control all necessary documentation around engineering activities
• Achieve all activities in line with company regulations and health & safety guidelines
• Planned preventative maintenance
• Assist with driving continuous improvement and lean activities

Skills and Competencies:

• Positive and proactive attitude
• Motivated to work in a fast paced manufacturing environment
• Ability to multi-task and assume responsibility
• Maintenance of machinery, plant and equipment
• Relay logic and hard wired systems fault diagnostics
• PLC/HMI bus systems knowledge
• Medium to heavy mechanical fitting work as and when required
• Electrical installations to latest regulations
• Control techniques PLC/drives/Comms

Educational Requirements/Experience:

• City & Guilds/ONC in Electrical Engineering
• Time served electrical engineer
• HNC/HND in Electrical Engineering – desirable
• 5 years + relevant experience post apprenticeship
• Ability to read Electrical & Engineering drawings
• Ability to fault find – good working knowledge of electrical and mechanical drive systems, pneumatic and hydraulic control systems
• Working knowledge of modern AC & DC drive systems through to standard large motor starting systems
• Fault finding diagnostics – electrical and mechanical
• Good working knowledge of PLC’s, pneumatics, hydraulics, variable speed drives (AC/DC)
• Excellent electrical fault finding skills