Job Title: Maintenance Electrician
Location: Northumberland
Salary: £40,000
The Company:
Theo James Recruitment is supporting a heavy manufacturing business with the appointment of an Industrial Maintenance Electrician.
Working across industrial machinery and automated production equipment, you will join a multidisciplinary maintenance team supporting plant reliability, breakdown response and engineering improvements.
Working Hours:
Full-time, permanent.
Day Shift, Monday to Friday
Job Description:
Reporting to the Engineering & Maintenance Manager, the Industrial Maintenance Electrician will diagnose faults, complete safe and lasting repairs, and help improve equipment performance.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Carrying out planned and reactive electrical maintenance across production machinery and ancillary plant.
- Diagnosing faults on three-phase systems, motors, starters, variable frequency drives, control panels and protection equipment.
- Using electrical drawings, diagnostic software and machine operating sequences to investigate PLC-controlled machinery faults.
- Troubleshooting HMIs, sensors, encoders and communications between control systems, drives and peripheral equipment.
- Supporting maintenance across presses, heating systems, CNC machinery, robotic handling and automated transfer equipment.
- Identifying deterioration through preventative inspections and appropriate electrical testing.
- Investigating root causes, verifying repairs and recording outstanding defects and safety concerns.
- Supporting machinery installation, commissioning, control system upgrades and reliability projects.
- Working with electrical, mechanical and production colleagues while following approved safe isolation and Lockout/Tagout procedures.
Skills & Experience:
To succeed as an Industrial Maintenance Electrician, you will need:
- A recognised electrical apprenticeship or equivalent industrial electrical qualification, such as NVQ Level 3 or City & Guilds Level 3.
- Proven electrical maintenance experience within manufacturing.
- Strong fault-finding skills across motors, drives, three-phase supplies and control circuits.
- Working knowledge of PLC-controlled machinery and automated equipment.
- Confidence reading electrical schematics and using testing and diagnostic equipment.
- Experience of planned and reactive maintenance, electrical safety and safe isolation.
- A methodical approach, accurate record-keeping and clear communication under production pressure.
Experience with Siemens S7/TIA Portal, ABB robots, CNC controls, industrial networks or machinery safety systems would strengthen your application for this Industrial Maintenance Electrician position. These are desirable rather than essential requirements.
Why Should You Apply?
This Industrial Maintenance Electrician opportunity offers:
- A permanent position in a hands-on industrial engineering environment.
- Varied work involving automation, PLC diagnostics and heavy manufacturing machinery.
- Involvement in control system upgrades, engineering projects and reliability improvements.
- Collaboration with electrical, mechanical and production colleagues.
Apply through Theo James Recruitment to discuss the opportunity.
