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**Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) **
3-month contract minimum
Location: Preston
Rate: Up to £33.00p/h DOE (Limited Co. / Umbrella)
40 hours a week, Days (Monday-Friday) + Potential Overtime
For the position of Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you will be required to conduct the following duties:
- Routine Maintenance: Perform regular inspections, preventative maintenance, and repairs on electrical systems, including PLCs, motors, control panels, and other electrical equipment.
- Troubleshooting: Quickly diagnose and resolve electrical faults to minimize production downtime and ensure smooth operations.
- Working to CompEx / Atex regulations
- Reading from engineering drawings, plans and schematics
- Documentation: Maintain accurate and detailed records of maintenance activities, repairs, and system modifications.
- Working safely is paramount, installing distribution, 3phase power, cabling, transformers, relays etc
- Measuring and testing electrical supply to correct standards and procedures, and Health & Safety
The successful Electrical Maintenance Engineer will need to have the following attributes:
- NVQ Level 3 in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Proven experience in electrical maintenance within a manufacturing or industrial environment (experience with chemical or similar processes is a plus).
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work with complex electrical systems and machinery.
The benefits of this position:
- Opportunity to work with a highly reputable organisation, and repeat contract work to meet future business demands/workloads
- Autonomy to get on with the job, whilst working as part of good team
- Busy reactive maintenance environment
- Outside IR35 – suitable for Limited company contractor or Umbrella
I am looking to speak to talented Industrial Mechanical maintenance engineers, who are looking for a rewarding and challenging contract position. For more information, please contact Sam Martlew – Recruitment Specialist at ATA Recruitment ((url removed)).
ATA Recruitment specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and General Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website - (url removed).
ATA is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation
