Maintenance Electrician – Continental Shift in Lamesley

SG Personnel are working with a market leading manufacturing business in Gateshead who are looking to recruit a Maintenance Electrician on a permanent basis. This is a superb opportunity with an established business who have seen significant capital expenditure over recent years. The role will work 12 hour shifts days/nights on a rotation within a cycle of production. The role will support manufacturing and attend all breakdown calls, repair equipment, maintain equipment through preventative maintenance and look for improvements to reduce manufacturing downtime.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure the plant and equipment are available and safe for use
• Respond quickly and effectively to machinery breakdowns
• Follow weekly planned maintenance schedule
• Complete works orders assigned
• Responsible for your own and everyone else’s safety
• Communicating / reporting engineering issues and resolutions to the Shift Supervisor and Maintenance Team
• Completion of shift log reporting work done and outstanding issues to be handed over/resolved
• Assist in other departments as required such as Production/ Engineering etc
• Experience in medium to large process environment
• Become a flexible team member
• Perform all work in a manner that meets and follows electrical codes and standards

Key Process:

• Conduct electrical systems maintenance
• Identifying electrical problems and repair them
• Troubleshoot electrical issues using appropriate testing devices
• Test electrical systems and components to ensure proper functioning
• Complete planned and preventative maintenance on plant and equipment
• Inverter control – changing out, set up
• Programming and fault finding knowledge of PLC’s (Allen Bradley preferably)
• Ability to read/create/modify Electrical Drawings
• Write detailed account of shift issues and communicate to oncoming shifts
• Attend maintenance meetings when required
• Responsible for cleanliness and housekeeping

Person Specification Essential:

• >5 years Electrical experience
• 18th Edition
• Knowledge and understanding of PLC control
• Knowledge of burner controls and gas systems would be advantageous
• IT systems & Microsoft office
• Can do attitude, resourceful, team player
• Ability to problem solve using a logical approach

The Shift Pattern:

A unique pattern covering 18 shifts each month during production runs. 2 days, 2 nights, 2 days off, followed by a break between production runs. 5.30 to 5.30 start and finish time.

Salary & Benefits:

Salary of £46405 inclusive of shift premium. Service bonus of 2% per annum. KPI bonus of up to 5% of salary paid annually.