Electrical Maintenance Engineer Renewable Energy South Lincolnshire

Norfolk & South Lincolnshire
- Salary:
Up to £47,500 + 15% Bonus + Company Van + Private Healthcare + Up to 7.5% Pension + 33 Days' Holiday

Hours:
Monday
- Friday:
Days Only
- Typically 8:00am - 4:30pm

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:

• 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

Package

• 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.