Maintenance Engineer

About the Position

Maintenance Engineer (Electrical bias)

We have a great opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join Swegon on a weekend-only shift pattern, the hours for this role are Friday to Sunday 06:00 - 18:00 with a 30-minute unpaid break each shift. 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.

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 authorized.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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 recognizing 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 the Company

Swegon Group

Swegon Group AB, owned by Investment AB Latour, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, is a market-leading supplier in the field of indoor environment, offering solutions for ventilation, heating, cooling, and climate optimization, as well as connected services and expert technical support. Swegon has subsidiaries in and distributors all over the world and 21 production plants in Europe, North America, and India. The company employs more than 3,300 people and in 2023 had a turnover of 8.8 billion SEK.

Founded in 1980, Swegon has co-workers numbering 600 and a turnover of 100M.