Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias)
Location: Gainsborough - Hemswell 
Salary: £45,000 £47,500 per year
Hours: Monday to Friday, 42 hours per week oncall rota (1 in 5 - Paid at 1.25x or time back in lieu) 8am-5.30pm or 7am-4.30pm.  
Contract: Fulltime, Permanent

Were looking for a skilled and proactive Maintenance Engineer (electrically biased) to join a busy renewableenergy processing site. This position plays a vital part in ensuring the smooth and reliable running of plant equipment used to convert food waste into green energy.

Youll be joining a supportive engineering team responsible for maintaining site machinery, improving equipment reliability, and ensuring safe, efficient daytoday operations. This role suits someone who enjoys handson engineering, problemsolving, and working across a varied and fastmoving environment.

As part of the engineering team, you will carry out planned and reactive maintenance across mechanical and electrical systems on site. You will help keep critical processing equipment operating safely and efficiently, support improvements, and assist with monitoring plant performance through SCADA and process data.

This is a role where no two days are the same breakdown response, inspections, project tasks, contractor supervision, and troubleshooting will all be part of your regular workload. Youll also take part in an oncall rota to provide outofhours support.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Carry out maintenance, repairs, and installations on mechanical and electrical equipment
• Perform routine inspections, testing, and fault diagnosis
• Complete all planned maintenance tasks, logging actions accurately on the maintenance system
• Respond quickly to equipment breakdowns and update followup records
• Support the scheduling and organisation of engineering works
• Order parts, liaise with suppliers, and maintain adequate stock levels
• Work from engineering drawings, ensuring work meets required standards
• Supervise contractors and ensure safe working practices are followed
• Assist with project work and site improvements
• Use SCADA and plant data to monitor performance and highlight issues
• Adhere to all site procedures and contribute to a safe working culture

What Were Looking For in this Maintenance Engineer Role: 

Essential:

• Level 3 qualification in engineering (electrical discipline preferred)
• 18th Edition
• At least 1 years experience in a similar maintenance or engineering role
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
• Experience using a maintenance management system
• Confident supervising contractors and working within permittowork systems
• Comfortable working at height and across varied site areas
• Strong communication skills and the ability to prioritise workloads
• Full UK driving licence or ability to travel between sites

Desirable:

• Telehandler, Forklift or MEWP certification
• Welding or fabrication experience

Benefits of this Maintenance Engineer Role: 

• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Health & wellbeing support
• Employee assistance programme
• Health cash plan
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Additional leave options
• Sick pay
• Bereavement leave
• Free/onsite parking
• Staff recognition programmes
• Referral scheme

Salary & Progression for this Maintenance Engineer Role: 

• Starting salary: £45,000, rising to £47,500 after successful probation
• Opportunity to develop new skills across both electrical and mechanical systems
• Ongoing training and support within a valuesdriven organisation

If you like the look of this Maintenance Engineer role, then click and apply or for further information, please contact Jamie Garcia-Courtice  [email protected].

Due to the volume of applications, we receive, unfortunately, we are not able to respond to every application personally, so if you have not heard back from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful. To see our other available vacancies please visit our website.

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