Shift Electrician

Location: Cumbria 
Salary: Starting Salary of 45k 
Shift Pattern: Rotating Days & Nights (10 Days of straight per month with a 13 working days per months) 

About the Role

We are recruiting for a Shift Electrician to join a well-established paper manufacturing site with a strong engineering culture and a real focus on reliability.

This is an opportunity for a true engineer - someone who appreciates both legacy machinery and modern upgrades. This is not a highly automated, high-CAPEX environment where equipment is replaced at the first fault. Instead, this site believes in:

• Reliability-centred maintenance

• Continuous improvement

• Process optimisation

• Engineering-led problem solving

• Getting the absolute best performance from existing assets

If you enjoy improving plant performance, enhancing reliability, and making meaningful engineering improvements - this is the role for you.

Shift Pattern & Overtime

• Rotating days and nights

• You will work an average of 13 shifts per month

• Includes 10 consecutive days off every month

• Excellent work-life balance compared to traditional shift roles

• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Regular availability of additional overtime days

This pattern offers significant time off while maintaining strong earning potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Electrical maintenance support across production and site services

• Fault finding and repair on a mix of ageing and upgraded equipment

• Work on motors, drives, control panels, PLC-controlled systems

• Participate in PPM and reactive maintenance

• Support reliability improvements and root cause analysis

• Contribute to small project work and plant modifications

• Work collaboratively with mechanical engineers and operations teams

• Maintain high safety standards in a heavy industrial environment

Engineering Environment

You will work across:

• Paper manufacturing and converting machinery

• Pumps, motors, gearboxes and conveyors

• Variable speed drives (VSDs)

• PLC systems (Siemens, Allen Bradley or similar)

• Industrial control panels and instrumentation

• Utilities including steam, compressed air and water systems

This is a hands-on industrial site where practical engineering ability is valued.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

• Time-served Electrician / Electrical Engineer

• NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering

• 18th Edition Wiring Regulations

• Experience in manufacturing or heavy industrial environments

• Strong electrical fault-finding skills

• Experience with motors, inverters, control circuits and panels

• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings

• Comfortable working shifts in a continuous production setting

Desirable Experience

• Experience within paper manufacturing or continuous process industries

• PLC fault-finding capability

• Knowledge of reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA) experience

• Instrumentation and calibration experience

• Test & Inspection qualification

• Experience improving and maintaining ageing plant assets

The Ideal Engineer

You'll be someone who:

• Takes pride in improving equipment rather than replacing it

• Has a strong reliability mindset

• Thinks proactively and analytically

• Enjoys solving complex faults

• Wants to influence plant performance and site standards

• Values engineering craftsmanship

What's On Offer

• Competitive base salary

• Overtime paid at 1.5x

• Strong earning potential

• 10 consecutive days off per month

• Stable, well-established manufacturing site

• A role where engineering genuinely makes the difference