Electrical Plant Engineer


Company:	Meridian Business Support
Salary:	£53,000 to £55,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Exeter, EX2 7HF
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	19 Sept 2026
Closing date:	7 Nov 2026

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Summary

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.

Preferred Skills:

- 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

Benefits:

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.

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