Electrical Engineer
17 days ago
Preston
Reed Talent Solutions is partnering with a well-established and growing food manufacturing business to recruit an experienced Electrical Engineer. This organisation is known for its supportive, close-knit culture and commitment to investing in its engineering team. This role is ideal for an electrically biased, multi-skilled engineer who enjoys being hands-on in a fast-paced FMCG environment. You’ll play a key role in ensuring production runs smoothly through effective fault finding, maintenance, and continuous improvement, with excellent earning potential through overtime and long-term job security. The Role As a Maintenance Engineer, your responsibilities will include: • Carrying out reactive and planned preventative maintenance (PPM) on production machinery, • Electrical fault finding on 3-phase systems and PLCs, • Supporting production by minimising downtime and improving equipment reliability, • Working within a busy food production environment To be successful in this role, you will ideally have: • Proven experience as a Maintenance Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer, • An electrical bias with strong fault-finding capability, • Experience working with 3-phase electrics and PLCs, • Basic mechanical skills (general maintenance, strip-downs, repairs), • 18th Edition qualification (advantageous but not essential), • Competitive basic salary with high overtime potential, • No night working, • Stable, growing business with a genuine “family feel”, • Opportunity to develop skills in a well-supported engineering team Keywords: Maintenance Engineer, Multi-Skilled Engineer, Electrical Maintenance, Electrically Biased Engineer, PLC Fault Finding, 3 Phase, FMCG, Food Manufacturing, Production, Reactive Maintenance, PPM, Preston, Lancashire