Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer (Electrical bias)

Position Summary

We have great a opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join Swegon. The focus of this role is to provide electrical expertise and hands-on maintenance support to keep machinery, plant and facilities safe and reliable. Deliver planned preventative maintenance, breakdown response and improvements with support at our Waterloo site and to other Swegon sites as required.

This is a broad maintenance role with an electrical bias. The successful candidate must undertake routine servicing, mechanical repairs and general site maintenance within their competence, alongside electrical work, according to site priorities and team needs. This role is based on site at our location in Snodland; Kent. Candidates would therefore need to be based in or around this area or be willing to travel to this and other locations each day, as required by the business.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Complete planned maintenance, inspections and servicing, including cleaning, lubrication, adjustments and component replacement.
• Diagnose and repair electrical faults on machinery, motors, drives, sensors and control circuits using drawings and test equipment.
• Respond to breakdowns, identify causes, complete effective repairs and support safe return to production; escalate where necessary.
• Carry out routine mechanical repairs within competence, including bearings, belts, chains, guards and pneumatic components.
• Undertake general building and facilities maintenance, and support equipment installation, machinery moves and engineering projects.
• Follow safe isolation, lock-off procedures, risk assessments and safe systems of work; leave equipment and work areas safe and tidy.
• Complete electrical installation, inspection, testing or design work only where appropriately qualified, competent and authorised.
• Record work completed, faults, parts used and follow-up actions in the maintenance system; identify spare-part requirements.
• Investigate repeat failures and help improve equipment reliability and preventative maintenance routines.
• Work with maintenance colleagues, production teams and contractors; communicate priorities, downtime and repair progress clearly.
• Support and coordinate contractors as directed, assist other departments and sites, and share knowledge on equipment care.

Essential Experience

• Minimum five years’ industrial maintenance experience, including electrical fault-finding, breakdown repairs and planned maintenance
• Ability to read electrical schematics and diagnose faults on industrial motors, drives and control systems.
• Practical ability and willingness to undertake routine mechanical repairs and general maintenance within competence.
• Experience of safe isolation, electrical test equipment and recognising when specialist support is required.

Essential Qualifications

• Recognised Level 3 qualification in electrical maintenance or electrotechnical engineering, with a completed apprenticeship or equivalent assessed workplace competence route. City & Guilds, EAL or equivalent accepted.
• Relevant 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations qualification and knowledge of amendments applicable to the work undertaken.
• Full Driving Licence
• Good numeracy, literacy and computer skills, including maintenance records and Microsoft Office.
• Qualification certificates and relevant experience must be verified. Selection includes technical questions and a suitable practical assessment of electrical fault diagnosis, safe working and general maintenance

We offer

At Swegon, we work to create the world's best indoor climate that makes people thrive and feel good inside. We have ambitious goals in our sustainability efforts, in offering the most energy-efficient products, promoting gender equality, and becoming carbon neutral, and we have clear transparency in our work. We offer exciting challenges in a global environment with competent colleagues and a culture characterized by our values; "Customer Empathy, Trust, and Commitment," which permeate everything we do and are the basis for the decisions we make and how we interact with each other. At Swegon, we have an open and flexible organizational culture with short decision-making processes, plenty of development opportunities, and we care about you being able to balance your work with your personal life. We place great emphasis on personal qualities, welcome applicants with different backgrounds, and strive for diversity and gender equality.

About Swegon Group

Swegon Group, owned by the Stockholm Stock Exchange-listed Investment AB Latour, is a market-leading provider of a healthy indoor climate, with solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimization, as well as connected services and technical expertise. Swegon has subsidiaries and distributors worldwide and 17 production units in Europe, North America, and India. The company has approximately 3000 employees and had a turnover of approximately SEK 6 billion in 2022.