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Electrical Maintenance Engineer - Renewable Energy
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Location: Norfolk & South Lincolnshire
Salary: Up to £47,500 + Bonus + Company Van + Private Healthcare + Up to 7.5% Pension + 33 Days' Holiday
Hours: Monday - Friday: Days Only - Typically 8:00am - 4:30pm
Are you an electrically trained Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer from a manufacturing, process or heavy industrial environment?
We're recruiting for a field-based engineer to support a portfolio of anaerobic digestion and renewable energy plants across Norfolk and South Lincolnshire. You'll be responsible for keeping sites safe, reliable and operational through a mix of planned maintenance, fault finding, breakdown response and improvement work.
This is a genuinely hands-on role with a strong electrical bias, covering three-phase systems, motors, instrumentation, PLC-controlled equipment, pumps and compressors.
What You'll Be Doing
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across three sites, soon to be four
- Diagnosing electrical faults and carrying out testing and rectification
- Working on three-phase systems, motors and associated plant equipment
- Fault finding on PLC-controlled machinery and basic control systems
- Supporting instrumentation including analogue and digital I/O
- Using test equipment such as multimeters, insulation testers, clamp meters and loop calibrators
- Carrying out mechanical maintenance on pumps, compressors and associated process equipment
- Supporting shutdowns, plant start-ups and major maintenance activity
- Monitoring specialist contractors working on site
- Completing service reports and maintenance documentation
- Managing your own workload across multiple sites
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What We're Looking For:
Essential:
- Time-served electrical apprenticeship or equivalent recognised electrical qualification
- HNC, NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent
- Strong electrical maintenance and fault-finding experience
- Experience working in an industrial, manufacturing or process environment
- Good understanding of three-phase electrical systems
- Ability to read electrical drawings and schematics
- Full UK driving licence
- Comfortable travelling between sites and occasionally working independently
Useful experience:
- PLC fault finding
- Instrumentation and control systems
- Analogue and digital I/O
- Pumps, compressors and piping systems
- Process plant maintenance
- Shutdowns and major maintenance activity
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Relevant backgrounds could include: Renewable energy, anaerobic digestion, biogas, food or feed manufacturing, utilities, water, waste, chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, steel or other heavy process industries.
The Person
- A genuine self-starter
- Confident working independently
- Strong on fault finding and problem solving
- Proactive and organised
- Comfortable taking ownership of site issues
- Hands-on and practical
- Motivated by continuous improvement and plant reliability
Package
- Salary up to £47,500 depending on experience
- Bonus scheme
- Company van
- Private healthcare
- Up to 7.5% pension
- 33 days' holiday
- Tools and equipment provided
- Regular salary reviews
- Ongoing training and development
- Long-term progression within a growing renewable energy business
Working Hours
Monday to Friday, days only - typically 8am-4:30pm, with flexibility around working hours.
If you're an electrically trained maintenance engineer looking for more autonomy, variety and the opportunity to work within renewable energy, apply today for a confidential discussion.
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