Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Field Based – Southampton

Salary & Benefits

Guaranteed Take-home Pay before tax: £43,614.20
(Includes £40,314.20 salary, £1,300 shift allowance and an additional £2,000 paid in £500 increments every 3 months: January, April, July, October)

Average Earnings: Around £53,000 with on call & overtime (with plenty of opportunity to earn more)

Company Vehicle: New automatic van, personal use, paid fuel
Holiday Allowance: 25 + 8 days
Benefits: Pension, Life Insurance, BUPA coverage
Mobile and Tablet: Company provided

Employer

Global German OEM with a century of expertise in commercial cleaning equipment including warewashers and glasswashers.

• Presence in 40 countries
• 50+ UK Electrical Service/Maintenance Engineers
• A stable business where engineers build long careers
• Role opened due to retirement

What the engineers say

“Supportive and friendly workplace.”
“Best employer I’ve worked for, patient, and supportive during the learning process. A business that genuinely cares.”
“They really care about enabling us to provide a quality over quantity service.”
“Took me 15 years to find this company I will never leave.”
“Training’s great, products fantastic, people are the best you could work with.”

Responsibilities

You’ll work on a wide range of customer sites including pubs, stadiums, airports, hospitals, hotels and universities.

• Electrical and mechanical maintenance
• Breakdown diagnosis and repairs
• Planned preventative maintenance
• Installations and commissioning
• Customer-facing site work (quality service, not high-volume call outs)

Qualifications & Skills

We’re looking for an engineer with a solid electrical background and experience in:

• Electrical fault finding and repairs
• Wiring / diagnostics (equipment-based)
• Planned preventative maintenance

Highly relevant backgrounds include:
• Catering Equipment Engineer / Commercial Kitchen Engineer
• Coffee Machine Engineer
• Bakery Equipment Engineer
• Dishwasher / Warewash Engineer
• Field Service Engineer / Multiskilled Engineer
• Electrical Maintenance Engineer

Qualifications (flexible):
17th or 18th Edition is useful, but we will also consider engineers with strong hands-on electrical fault-finding experience on commercial equipment.
Mechanical fitters with good electrical experience are also considered.

Training

Full training provided:

• 3 months structured training initially
• Continued training over the next two years

Working Hours / Overtime

Mon–Fri: 8am–5pm
Overtime paid at time and a half and double time
On-call rota begins after 3 months training (typically one weekend every three weeks)
All on-call work paid at overtime rates and door-to-door

Application Process

If you’re an Electrical Maintenance Engineer, Field Service Engineer, Catering Equipment Engineer, Coffee Machine Engineer, Kitchen Equipment Engineer, Dishwasher/Warewash Engineer, Multiskilled Engineer, or Electrical Technician, please apply.

Talent Lynx Ltd is the employment agency for the client company