Electrical Maintenance Engineer - Renewable Energy

Are you an electrically trained Maintenance Engineer, Electrical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Engineer from a manufacturing, process or heavy industrial environment?

We're recruiting for a field-based engineer to support a portfolio of anaerobic digestion and renewable energy plants across Norfolk and South Lincolnshire. You'll be responsible for keeping sites safe, reliable and operational through a mix of planned maintenance, fault finding, breakdown response and improvement work.

This is a genuinely hands-on role with a strong electrical bias, covering three-phase systems, motors, instrumentation, PLC-controlled equipment, pumps and compressors.

What You'll Be Doing

• Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance across three sites, soon to be four
• Diagnosing electrical faults and carrying out testing and rectification
• Working on three-phase systems, motors and associated plant equipment
• Fault finding on PLC-controlled machinery and basic control systems
• Supporting instrumentation including analogue and digital I/O
• Using test equipment such as multimeters, insulation testers, clamp meters and loop calibrators
• Carrying out mechanical maintenance on pumps, compressors and associated process equipment
• Supporting shutdowns, plant start-ups and major maintenance activity
• Monitoring specialist contractors working on site
• Completing service reports and maintenance documentation
• Managing your own workload across multiple sites

What We're Looking For:

Essential:

• Time-served electrical apprenticeship or equivalent recognised electrical qualification
• HNC, NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds or equivalent
• Strong electrical maintenance and fault-finding experience
• Experience working in an industrial, manufacturing or process environment
• Good understanding of three-phase electrical systems
• Ability to read electrical drawings and schematics
• Full UK driving licence
• Comfortable travelling between sites and occasionally working independently

• PLC fault finding
• Instrumentation and control systems
• Analogue and digital I/O
• Pumps, compressors and piping systems
• Process plant maintenance
• Shutdowns and major maintenance activity

Relevant backgrounds could include: Renewable energy, anaerobic digestion, biogas, food or feed manufacturing, utilities, water, waste, chemical, petrochemical, oil & gas, steel or other heavy process industries.

The Person

• A genuine self-starter
• Confident working independently
• Strong on fault finding and problem solving
• Proactive and organised
• Comfortable taking ownership of site issues
• Hands-on and practical
• Motivated by continuous improvement and plant reliability

• Salary up to £47,500 depending on experience
• Bonus scheme
• Company van
• Private healthcare
• Up to 7.5% pension
• 33 days' holiday
• Tools and equipment provided
• Regular salary reviews
• Ongoing training and development
• Long-term progression within a growing renewable energy business

Working Hours

Monday to Friday, days only - typically 8am-4:30pm, with flexibility around working hours.

If you're an electrically trained maintenance engineer looking for more autonomy, variety and the opportunity to work within renewable energy, apply today for a confidential discussion.