Maintenance Electrician

Location Thatcham
Job Type Permanent
Salary £50000 - 50000 per year total 15% pension contribution, share saver scheme, death in service.
Contact Ashton Kenney
Call 07814 905 283
Reference ak.meah

Maintenance Electrician, £50,000, 3s and 2s Days & Nights, Thatcham

Package includes: total 15% pension contribution, share saver scheme, death in service.

Why join our client?

  • Fantastic employee engagement - over 300 employees have been with the business over 25 years.
  • Real career progression with the opportunities to progress into engineering management role in the next couple of years.
  • Option to buy reduced shares in the business.  
  • Opportunity to work for a forward-thinking company who invested over £125m across their sites since 2022.

About the company

ATA are supporting one of their longest standing clients on a search for to join their team close to Thatcham. The group who are steeped in British History have been operating since the 1960s, however some of their product’s date back to the 19th century and are one of the UKs most recognised and respected construction brands. One of 15 sites, the site based in Thatcham, has been a well-established employer in the area for over 40 years and has seen continuous periods of significant growth in recent times. This has allowed them to invest heavily into the site, running continuous improvement projects, training and developing employers and buying new plant machinery. The ongoing investment within the site has cemented their long-term commitment to the local area of being an employer of choice for the foreseeable future.

About the role

As a maintenance Electrician, you will be responsible for maintaining PLC controlled machinery within an industrial manufacturing setting.

  • Planned preventative maintenance
  • Reacting to breakdowns
  • Electrical fault finding on 3 phase equipment.
  • Working in conjunction with the groups LEAN and continuous improvement plans.

Plant machinery include cutters, overhead cranes, belt conveyors, roller conveyors, casting cars, robotics, shrink wrapping machinery and autoclaves.

About you

As a Maintenance Electrical you should be/have the following:

  • A strong electrical skillset, ideally from working within an industrial automated environment (Dusty, hot and heavy).
  • Sound understanding of motor theory.  
  • Experience working within control panels.
  • Experience fault finding on automated machinery.  
  • Recognised engineering qualification (Level 3, or above)

The benefits

This is a fantastic opportunity for any engineer that is looking to work within a stable environment, for a company that will keep on growing alongside a busy construction market. This is also a fantastic opportunity for an engineer to acquire a new range of skills with a put together training package that will help them flourish on site. You will be joining a company that has seen an impressive increase in their profit over the last 5 years which has allowed them to acquire some of their competition and build new sites.

If you think you are the right maintenance electrician for this market leader, please press apply, call Ashton on 07814905283 or email your CV too ashton.kenney@ata-recruitment.co.uk 

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

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