Electrical Maintenance Engineer (Manufacturing)

An outstanding permanent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join a highly successful, premier manufacturing operation in Johnstone. If you are an electrically biased engineer looking for structured technical progression, excellent shift allowances, and a clear path into leadership, this role offers a defined grading matrix to take your career to the next level.

• Electrical Maintenance: Execute planned preventative maintenance (PPM), proactive fault-finding, and reactive breakdown repairs across complex production machinery.
• Downtime Reduction: Work closely with the wider engineering team to minimize plant downtime and optimize equipment reliability.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to site engineering projects, machinery upgrades, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Experience: Strong electrical maintenance and fault-finding background within a high-volume manufacturing or production environment.
• Industry Focus: Experience working within Injection Moulding, Blow Moulding, or Extrusion Moulding environments is highly desirable.
• Qualifications: Relevant engineering qualifications (ideally HNC/HND or equivalent time-served status).
• Flexibility: Willingness to work the rotational shift pattern following your initial onboarding period.

• Structured internal grading system (Levels 1, 2, and 3) with clear milestones to progress into Chargehand / Team Leader positions.
• Plentiful overtime opportunities to significantly boost your earnings.

Hours: 39 hours per week + Overtime available - Shift Schedule & Premiums:

You will complete an initial 2–3 week training period on day shift before moving onto the following rotational pattern (attracting 20% back shift and 33% night shift allowances):

Day Shift: Monday–Thursday, 8:00am – 4:30pm; Friday, 8:00am – 3:30pm.

Back Shift (Rotation): Monday–Wednesday, 11:30am – 10:00pm; Thursday, 12:30pm – 10:00pm. (Occasional variant: Tuesday–Thursday, 11:30am – 10:00pm; Friday, 12:30pm – 10:00pm).

Night Shift (Rotation): Monday–Thursday, 9:50pm – 8:05am. - Apply Now: Click apply for immediate consideration and a confidential discussion.