Electrical Maintenance Engineer Renewable Energy – Norfolk & South Lincolnshire

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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.

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Posted: September 20th, 2026