Electrical Technician (Engineer)

Acting as an agency on behalf of my client, a well established organisation within the manufacturing industry, with offices based in the Leicester area.

Due to company expansion and ongoing success, my client is looking to employ an electrical maintenance engineer on a permanent basis, to ensure smooth operation of their Leicester site.

My client provides a highly professional working environment, with an excellent training programme and opportunity for future development within the company.

Your role will be to carry out engineering maintenance and repair work as instructed to established criteria in order to achieve machine start up time targets.

Key Responsibilities

*Ensure that all operations are carried out in accordance with company safety policies and relevant Health and Safety legislation.
*Carry out planned maintenance activities in accordance with the established programme and client engineering standards.
*Carry out fault finding on PLC control systems, AC drives inverters/DC drives controllers.
*Carry out breakdown repairs as instructed and in a prompt timely manner.
*Work closely with engineering and production teams to achieve production priorities, minimise disruption and successfully resolve problems.

Experience
*Proven experience of electrical maintenance in an industrial environment – FMCG
*Must have excellent problem solving and diagnostic skills and be able to work alone in a production environment.
*HNC/HND Electronics or Equivalent
*Automations experience, packaging lines, carton machines, wrappers, conveyor systems etc.
*Experience with AC / DC Drives and knowledge of PLC’s, power electronics and electrical installation:
*Allen Bradley ~ SLC500/PLC5/Control logix
*S7/S5
*Drives ~ Control Techniques/Sie7ens/AB
*Able to work shifts and overtime as require

Candidate must be eligible to live and work in the UK
Roevin are an equal opportunities employer