Maintenance Technician – Electrical

Responsibilities

• Providing specialist technical support to maximise efficiency and ensure completion of planned, predictive, and corrective maintenance tasks.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant health, safety, and environmental legislation, safe systems of work, and documented procedures.
• Building strong working relationships with Process and Spirit Supply teams to deliver exceptional customer service in line with agreed SLAs.
• Driving and supporting improvement projects, participating in root cause analysis, FMEA/FMECA, and other advanced problem‑solving activities.
• Completing preventive maintenance activities on time and to the required quality and workmanship standards.
• Responding effectively to unplanned breakdowns, performing root cause analysis and implementing permanent corrective actions, with a focus on complex technical issues.
• Maintaining accurate maintenance and technical records, ensuring plant history and planned activities are updated through the CMMS.
• Recording all maintenance, inspection, verification, and repair data in the CMMS (IFS) for KPI tracking and reporting.
• Developing and maintaining competence, ensuring all tasks are completed safely, professionally, and efficiently.
• Promoting diversity and inclusion, demonstrating behaviours aligned with our commitment to a culture where everyone’s ideas and perspectives are valued.

• Qualified electrical technician with experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong diagnostic and problem‑solving skills, particularly in breakdown response and root cause analysis.
• Understands safe working practices and consistently meets compliance and quality expectations.
• Communicates clearly and builds strong working relationships across teams.
• Confident using CMMS systems and maintaining accurate engineering records.
• Brings a focus on continuous improvement and is comfortable supporting team‑based projects.
• Demonstrates inclusive behaviours and contributes positively to team culture.

If you’re passionate about problem‑solving, hands‑on engineering, and contributing to a safe, inclusive workplace, we’d love to hear from you.

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be a home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

Our agile working philosophy is “Have your best work day everyday”. Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.

We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.