Maintenance Electrician - Day Shift

About The Role

We are looking for a skilled Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join our Days maintenance team. The ideal candidate will be proactive, reliable, and committed to maintaining high equipment uptime and electrical safety standards. While experience in heavy manufacturing is advantageous, it is not essential for the right candidate with strong electrical competence and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Carry out planned preventive maintenance (PPM) on electrical and control systems to ensure equipment reliability.
• Minimise plant downtime by identifying, diagnosing, and resolving electrical faults efficiently and safely.
• Inspect, service, and maintain motors, drives, PLCs, panels, sensors, and other electrical equipment.
• Support condition monitoring activities including thermography, insulation resistance testing, and vibration analysis.
• Assist with electrical installation, testing, and inspection work in line with BS7671 (current IET Wiring Regulations).
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability, reduce downtime, and support production efficiency.
• Maintain accurate documentation of all maintenance work, inspections, and improvements within the CMMS.
• Work collaboratively with production, engineering, and the shift maintenance teams to deliver process improvements.
• Provide holiday and sickness cover for the shift team when required.
• Adhere to all relevant safety procedures including LOTOTO, PPE, and site H&S standards.

• Time-served apprenticeship in Electrical Engineering.
• Qualified to NVQ Level 3 minimum with 18th Edition (IET Wiring Regulations).
• Strong electrical fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with motors, drives, PLCs, control panels, and industrial electrical systems.
• Good understanding of TPM/PPM systems and CMMS use.
• Strong awareness of electrical and site safety procedures (LOTO, H&S, PPE).
• Effective teamwork and communication skills.
• Knowledge of predictive maintenance techniques (e.g., thermography, vibration, insulation testing) desirable.
• Experience in continuous improvement, reliability projects, or equipment modifications preferable.
• Multi-skilled capability advantageous but not essential.
• IT literate (Word, Excel, CMMS experience beneficial).
• Experience in heavy manufacturing industries desirable but not required.

• A competitive salary
• Generous pension
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance
• Career and professional development
• Free onsite parking
• Enhanced parental leave
• Employee assistance programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discounts
• Plus more!

Brett is the UK’s largest independently owned building materials Group with over 60 sites across the South, South East, East and Midlands and employing over 750 people.

Part of the Brett Group, Brett Landscaping and Building Products produces and supplies a variety of hard landscaping and building products including block and decorative paving, decorative aggregates, and specialist kerbs. Primarily distributed through builders’ merchants and garden centres, all our products are backed by technical and product expertise.

With a reputation for excellence, we offer superb development opportunities to people keen to be a part of our continued growth. As an independent business we can offer real job satisfaction in an environment which encourages you to contribute, supports you in getting the job done and enables you to become part of a team that delivers building materials for big ideas.

• Our people are individuals, we value your input and support you in your professional development.
• We see our people as our greatest strength.
• We work hard to create inclusive environments.
• Grow your skills with ongoing opportunities – our business thrives when our people are at their best, we encourage and support ongoing learning and development.

Brett Group operates an Equal Opportunities Policy and monitoring. We are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination in recruitment and employment. We take a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination and…