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Principal Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Control & Instrumentation)
DIVERSEJOBSMATTER LIMITED
Electrical Plant Engineer
Meridian Business Support · Devon, England
Electrical Plant Engineer at Meridian Business Support, based in Devon, England, paying £53,000 per annum. This is a contract role.
- Salary
- £53,000 per annum
- Location
- Devon, England
- Contract
- Contract
- Posted
- 3 months ago
- Closes
- 5 Nov 2026
- Sector
- Electrical Engineer
Bang in line with the market for electrical engineer
Reference SL/43H2
About the role
Electrical Plant Engineer
The Opportunity:
This role might suit somebody who’s been a Project Engineer / Maintenance Engineer (but more on the planning side) / Engineering Supervisor or Plant Engineer. You will need to be electrically biased and able to understand low and high voltage systems and work with and oversee electrical contractors. This role is critical to ensure that the manufacturing equipment, services, buildings and the entire engineering infrastructure are maintained and improved to meet the current and future demands of the business.
Job Responsibilities:
25 days annual holiday
Secure on-site parking
Excellent contributory pension
Health care cash back plan
Life assurance
Company bonus scheme
8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
Please note that this specific role may be subject to export control restrictions, including under ITAR. Any offer of employment from this particular company will be conditional on the successful candidate meeting the applicable legal requirements for access to controlled information.
The Opportunity:
This role might suit somebody who’s been a Project Engineer / Maintenance Engineer (but more on the planning side) / Engineering Supervisor or Plant Engineer. You will need to be electrically biased and able to understand low and high voltage systems and work with and oversee electrical contractors. This role is critical to ensure that the manufacturing equipment, services, buildings and the entire engineering infrastructure are maintained and improved to meet the current and future demands of the business.
Job Responsibilities:
- Identifying, specifying, sourcing, and purchasing machines and equipment.
- Supervising sub-contractors, ensuring project implementation to time and cost whilst complying with all Company and H&S requirements.
- Creating project plans to support machine rearrangement, equipment installation, improvement, and cost reduction projects.
- Identifying and implementing cost reduction and method improvement opportunities.
- Purchasing parts and equipment for improvement works, collating receipts and raising purchase requisitions.
- Carrying out plant engineering activities, with minimal supervision, across the site including building/electrical infrastructure and manufacturing equipment.
- Providing technical expertise, including data analysis, planning and execution to improve equipment availability and asset utilisation for the site.
- Identifying and making improvements to the reliability of equipment to reduce reoccurring faults and downtime.
- Assisting Maintenance undertaking fault finding across the plant and on the equipment.
- Implementing and driving reliability excellence (REX) on critical equipment.
- Creation and maintenance of technical files for new and existing equipment.
- Qualified to a HNC or equivalent in Electrical or Controls Engineering with a minimum of 5 years experience.
- No other formal Electrical qualifications are required in this role.
- Ability to identify and solve to root cause, repetitive reliability problems and write maintenance procedures
- Ability to collect and analyse overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) on critical equipment
- CAD experience, full Microsoft suite and ideally Oracle useful
25 days annual holiday
Secure on-site parking
Excellent contributory pension
Health care cash back plan
Life assurance
Company bonus scheme
8am-4pm or 8.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy.
Please note that this specific role may be subject to export control restrictions, including under ITAR. Any offer of employment from this particular company will be conditional on the successful candidate meeting the applicable legal requirements for access to controlled information.
Reference: SL/43H2 · Posted 3 months ago · Closes 5 Nov 2026 · Listed via Meridian Business Support
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