Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias)

Company: Baltic Recruitment Services Ltd
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Location: Pontypool
Job Description:

Baltic Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Temp to Perm Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) for a client located in Pontypool. This role is working on a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday – Friday. Reporting into the Maintenance Supervisor.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Safety

  • To promote health and safety in all aspects of engineering through effective leadership.
  • Develop a safety culture within the maintenance team to improve safety when working
  • Raise near misses and conduct investigations where required.
  • Ensure all maintenance activities are carried out in a safe manner and are compliant with all health and safety rules.

People

  • To actively coach and develop associate Technicians and maintenance Technicians through training and development activities.
  • Support, Coach and develop engineering apprentices where required.

Quality

  • Support the business in ensuring right first time, every time is achieved from the machining and assembly cells.
  • Ensure the customer is put first in all decisions relating to engineering repairs. Ensuring they are not affected by any work completed.

Reliability

  • OEE – React and respond to daily OEE issues where Technical support is Required
  • OEE – Analyse and utilise OEE data to identify engineering issues and create improvement plans to resolve in the shortest possible time frame
  • OEE – Take ownership of plant performance in your area of responsibility and strive to ensure it is always improving.
  • Utilise root cause analysis tools and techniques to determine root cause on significant failures and plan, implement and monitor control to resolve.
  • Utilise CMMS system to log time and report counter measures for reactive and planned maintenance activities.
  • Take lead role and Strive to continually improve plant and processes in line with business goals. Utilising performance data to identify areas for improvement and measure success.
  • Support Maintenance team in optimising maintenance strategy for the site and identifying critical spares.
  • Provide technical support where required during planned predictive maintenance activities to ensure all tasks are completed correctly.

Cost

  • Keep business profitability in mind when using spare parts.
  • Look for improvement opportunities that will reduce costs.
  • Promote energy saving within the department.

Maintenance Senior Technician (Electrical Bias) Applicants:

Essential:

  • An apprenticeship or HNC in engineering.
  • Must understand the systems within Company and the Customer Quality Drivers.
  • Must understand the importance of OEE and how it is made up and calculated.
  • Must be able to communicate effectively at all levels both verbally and in writing.
  • Must be able to manage workload in a timely manner in order to achieve deadlines.
  • Must be able to formulate plans to achieve targets and be willing and able to make decisions based on facts.
  • The will to achieve targets and goals and satisfy all internal and external customers.
  • Electrical control system fault finding in a manufacturing/production environment.
  • PLC fault finding experience, using A-B Logix platforms and Siemens Step7/TIA Portal.

Desirable:

  • HNC/HND in Electrical engineering subject.
  • Microsoft Outlook and PowerPoint software.
  • CMMS experience – Ideally Agility or SAP.
  • CNC fault finding and maintenance, predominantly Siemens 840D Solution Line.
  • PLC programming experience.
  • Vision system interrogation and modification using Cognex or Neurocheck.
  • Robotics fault finding and maintenance (Staubli, ABB and UR).

Working a 3-Shift Pattern, Monday to Friday. 9.00 pm – 6.00 am:

  • Day Shift: 6am – 2pm
  • Back Shift: 2pm – 10pm
  • Night Shift: 10pm – 6am

Salary(s):

  • Basic: £37,938.11
  • AM/PM Shift: £42,650.02
  • Night Shift: £43,461.90

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Posted: November 4th, 2026