Yolk Recruitment Ltd
Electrical Maintenance Engineer
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Yolk Recruitment is supporting an established Welsh manufacturer in their search for a Multi-Skilled Engineer with a strong Electrical bias. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing engineering team, playing a key role in maintaining production performance, improving equipment reliability, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the site.
Working a rotating three-shift pattern covering mornings, afternoons, and nights, you'll be responsible for keeping manufacturing operations running safely, efficiently, and reliably through a combination of reactive maintenance, planned preventative maintenance, fault finding, and engineering improvements.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Multi-Skilled Engineer, you'll work across electrical and mechanical systems to ensure plant performance is maintained at the highest level. Key responsibilities will include:
- Responding quickly to electrical and mechanical breakdowns to minimise production downtime.
- Diagnosing faults and carrying out repairs across production machinery, automated equipment, and site services.
- Completing planned preventative maintenance (PPM) activities and inspections to a high standard.
- Carrying out mechanical maintenance and breakdown repairs as part of a multi-skilled engineering team.
- Identifying recurring equipment issues and supporting root cause analysis activities.
- Implementing corrective actions to improve reliability and prevent repeat failures.
- Working closely with production teams to maximise equipment availability and performance.
- Supporting engineering projects, machinery upgrades, installations, and continuous improvement activities.
- Maintaining accurate maintenance records through the site's maintenance management system.
- Following safe systems of work, risk assessments, isolation procedures, and LOTOTO processes.
- Contributing to high housekeeping, quality, and safety standards across engineering and production areas.
- Supporting the development of engineering standards, maintenance procedures, and best practices.
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What You'll Bring
We're looking for a proactive maintenance engineer who enjoys fault finding, solving technical problems, and improving equipment reliability. You'll ideally have:
- An Electrical Engineering qualification such as NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, HNC/HND, or equivalent.
- Previous maintenance engineering experience within manufacturing, production, or industrial environments.
- Strong electrical fault-finding, diagnostics, and repair experience.
- Good mechanical maintenance knowledge and practical experience.
- Experience working on industrial machinery, automated equipment, and production systems.
- Knowledge of preventative maintenance principles and reliability-focused maintenance practices.
- A proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues before they impact production.
- The ability to prioritise workloads effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with production colleagues.
- A strong commitment to health and safety, engineering standards, and continuous improvement.
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Why You Should Apply
- Join a respected Welsh manufacturer with a strong heritage and growing operation.
- Work within a supportive engineering team where your ideas and improvements are valued.
- Gain exposure to a varied manufacturing environment with modern production equipment.
- Play a key role in reliability improvement and engineering enhancement projects.
- Attractive benefits package including pension scheme, company perks, and generous annual leave.
- Long-term career stability with a business committed to investment and continuous improvement.
Ready to Apply?
If you're an electrically biased Multi-Skilled Engineer looking for your next challenge within a successful manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Contact Andy Jones at Yolk Recruitment for a confidential discussion.
Please apply with an up-to-date CV outlining your engineering experience and suitability for the role.
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We aim to respond to every application. However, due to the volume of applications received, if you have not heard from us within 7 days, unfortunately, your application has not been successful on this occasion. Please continue to monitor our website for future opportunities.
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