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Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias)
Location: Kings Norton, Birmingham
Department: Operations
Reporting to: Operations Manager
Job Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join our Operations team at our Kings Norton site in Birmingham.
This is a hands-on engineering role with responsibility for ensuring the safe, reliable and continuous operation of our production machinery, plant and building services.
You will play a key role in maintaining and improving equipment reliability, minimising downtime and supporting our production teams. You will also lead and develop the Maintenance team, helping to build a proactive, preventative maintenance culture across the site.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Maintenance team, including allocation of work, performance management, appraisals, recruitment, training and development.
- Develop and continuously improve preventative and predictive maintenance programmes.
- Diagnose, fault-find and repair electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and control system faults across production machinery and site services.
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance (PPM), predictive maintenance and reactive maintenance.
- Fault-find, modify and improve PLC-controlled systems and automated equipment where required.
- Install, test, commission and modify machinery, electrical equipment and plant.
- Respond promptly to equipment faults and emergency breakdowns to minimise production disruption.
- Monitor maintenance KPIs and implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure machinery, plant and electrical installations are maintained in a safe and serviceable condition and comply with relevant statutory requirements.
- Oversee statutory inspections and compliance activities, including PAT, fixed wiring inspections, thermal imaging, LOLER and pressure systems.
- Ensure equipment requiring calibration is maintained and certified in accordance with company and legislative requirements.
- Manage external contractors and specialist service providers, ensuring work is completed safely and in line with company procedures.
- Support engineering, capital improvement and continuous improvement projects.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records, compliance documentation and asset histories.
- Manage maintenance purchasing, including sourcing parts, materials and specialist services.
- Monitor maintenance expenditure and work within the agreed maintenance budget.
- Liaise with insurers, regulatory inspectors and external providers regarding compliance and specialist maintenance requirements.
- Carry out fabrication and welding activities where required to support maintenance operations.
- Ensure full compliance with the company's Environmental, Health & Safety and Quality Management Systems.
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About You
We are looking for someone who is proactive, practical and confident working in a busy manufacturing environment.
You will ideally have:
- Previous experience in a maintenance engineering role within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Strong electrical engineering knowledge and an electrical bias.
- Experience fault-finding electrical, mechanical, pneumatic and control systems.
- Experience working with PLC-controlled machinery and automated equipment.
- Knowledge of preventative and predictive maintenance practices.
- Experience leading or supervising a maintenance/engineering team.
- A strong understanding of electrical safety, statutory compliance and safe systems of work.
- Good problem-solving and diagnostic skills.
- The ability to prioritise effectively and respond calmly to breakdowns and production pressures.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Production and Engineering teams.
- A proactive approach to continuous improvement.
- The ability to manage contractors, suppliers and external service providers.
- A flexible approach to working hours to meet business requirements.
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Working Requirements
The role may involve:
- Out-of-hours work to support production or respond to breakdowns.
- Occasional travel to customer sites, suppliers or training activities.
- Flexibility around working hours to support business requirements.
Location
Shapers' Technologies UK Ltd
Unit 23/25 Sovereign Road
Kings Norton Business Centre
Birmingham
B30 3HN
Why Join Us?
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Maintenance Engineer to take a key role within a busy manufacturing environment, leading a maintenance team and helping to drive improvements in reliability, efficiency, safety and operational performance.
If you are an experienced electrical-biased engineer who enjoys solving problems, improving equipment and leading a team, we would love to hear from you.
Please note that this advert is intended as a summary of the role and is not exhaustive. The post-holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties as requested by management.
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