Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Role: Electrical Maintenance Engineer
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Location: Chard
Salary: Up to £44,000 + Benefits
Shift: Double Days (Early Friday Finish every week)
Are you a Maintenance Engineer looking for a secure long-term opportunity with a well-established manufacturer in the Chard area?
Yolk Recruitment is supporting a well-known and highly respected manufacturing business with the recruitment of an Electrical Bias Maintenance Engineer to join their established engineering team.
This is a great opportunity to join a stable business with a strong reputation locally, modern manufacturing processes and a genuine focus on employee retention and work-life balance. The role offers a double days pattern with an early Friday finish every week, alongside overtime opportunities and a strong benefits package.
This is what you'll be doing
As a Maintenance Engineer, you'll be part of an experienced engineering team responsible for keeping production equipment and facilities running efficiently through both planned and reactive maintenance activities.
You'll be working across a varied manufacturing environment, supporting continuous improvement and ensuring machinery downtime is kept to a minimum.
Key responsibilities:
Fault finding on electrical and mechanical production equipment
Working on three-phase systems, motors, drives, relays, sensors, contactors and control panels
Supporting reactive breakdowns and planned preventative maintenance schedules
Carrying out mechanical maintenance including bearings, chains, gearboxes, belts and conveyors
Assisting with continuous improvement and project work across the site
Ensuring all engineering activities are completed safely and in line with site standards
Supporting production teams to maximise machine uptime and reliability
The experience you'll bring to the team
Previous experience within a manufacturing or production maintenance environment
Electrically biased preferred with a min NVQ level 2 electrical qualification
Comfortable working on both electrical and mechanical systems
Experience with inverters/VSDs, panels, motors and production machinery
Engineering qualifications such as NVQ, City & Guilds, apprenticeship or equivalent would be beneficial
A proactive xwwtmva and team-focused attitude
And this is what you'll get in return
Starting salary up to £44,000
Double days shift pattern
Early Friday finish every week
Overtime available paid at enhanced rates
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Pension matched up to 5%
Life Assurance
Sickness Pay
Health plan
Employee discount platform
Stable and well-invested manufacturing environment
Long-term development opportunities within the business
Shift Pattern
Mon-Thu: 06:00-14:00 / 14:00-22:00
Fri: 06:00-12:00 / 12:00-18:00
If you feel you have the skills, experience and attitude required for this opportunity then please apply today with your CV.
Yolk Recruitment is acting as an employment agency on behalf of this vacancy.

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