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Site Electrical Lead Engineer, £60,000, Leicester
Package includes: Company bonus up to 10%, Pension 9%, 25 days + 8 bank holidays.
About the company
ATA is supporting a large manufacturing group who are looking to add an experienced site electrical lead engineer to their team. With over 200 years of experience, this group has a well-established history of delivering sustainable packaging products to various industries, including Food, Beverage, Retail and E-commerce. The group are a true global leader within their field, operating across 40 plants in 17 countries, employ over 6,000 staff and turnover an impressive £2billion.
This site in Leicestershire has been at the heart of the community for over 40 years with a lot of their employees being at the site for near its full tenure including the plant manager who started on the shop floor. The site has always offered a great place to work and with investment plans on the horizon, it will soon become the groups UKs flagship site.
About the role
As an Electrical Lead Engineer, you lead and develop the site electrical team. Responsible for anything electrical, from the production machinery right through to the on-site facilities.
You will be responsible for the following:
- Planning in and managing all electrical work using the onsite CMMS.
- Lead on complex electrical faults and priority breakdowns.
- Maintain adherence to health and safety legislation through risk assessments and the creation of Safe Systems of Work.
- Oversee and track corrective actions for fixed wiring testing performed by contractors.
- Ensure full compliance with regulations for Low Voltage (LV) and High Voltage (HV) systems
- Monitor faults and breakdowns & implement reliability improvements.
- Improving projects, new machine installation and upgrade work.
- Supporting the wider group to achieve their sustainability plans by leading energy reduction projects.
- Complete root cause analysis projects to drive site improvement.
- Contractor management/correct work permits.
- Training and development of electrical department
About you
To be considered for the role as site electrical lead engineer, you should be/have the following:
- Completed a time served electrical engineering apprenticeship.
- Strong working knowledge and practical experience with electrical maintenance.
- Knowledge of electricity at work regulations (British Standards).
- Leadership experience is preferential; however, our client will consider engineers who want to take the next step.
- Hands on experience managing installation projects.
- Due to the nature of the site, experience working within a high-speed manufacturing environment is essential.
- Experience with Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLC (Desirable)
Benefits
Joining our client as a site electrical lead, you will receive a host of benefits. You will be joining a company who put personal development and growth at the forefront of everything they do. Personal development can take many forms, but here, it could include technical growth and progression into senior positions. The group prefer to promote from within, this has been demonstrated many times across the business. The current plant manager started on site as an apprentice. You will be joining a company that have impressive plans for the future with over £5m of Capex already lined up for 2025.
If you feel like you are the right site electrical lead engineer for this role and would like to hear more about, please press apply, call Ashton on or email your CV too
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