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About the job
Electrical Maintenance Technician
Keep Critical Manufacturing Equipment Running in a Global Advanced Materials Business
Croydon, South London | Panama Shift Pattern | Electrical Maintenance | Manufacturing | Engineering
Are you an experienced Electrical Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Electrician, Electrical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician looking for your next challenge in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?
Do you enjoy fault finding, problem solving and keeping production equipment operating safely and efficiently?
At Zotefoams, we're looking for an Electrical Maintenance Technician to join our Engineering & Maintenance team in Croydon. This is an opportunity to work with a wide range of industrial equipment, support critical manufacturing operations and contribute to the reliability and performance of a global leader in advanced cellular materials technology.
Why Join Zotefoams?
Zotefoams is a world leader in cellular materials technology, manufacturing innovative foam products used across automotive, aerospace, healthcare, packaging, sport and leisure markets worldwide. We continue to invest in our people, technology and manufacturing capabilities, creating exciting opportunities for skilled engineering professionals.
Working as part of a collaborative engineering team, you'll play a key role in maintaining and improving equipment reliability while helping to ensure safe, efficient production across our Croydon manufacturing site.
What You'll Be Doing
This is a hands-on maintenance role with a strong electrical focus, supporting both planned preventative maintenance and reactive breakdown activities across a complex manufacturing environment.
You'll work on a variety of industrial production equipment while helping drive continuous improvement and operational reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Carry out planned, preventative and reactive electrical maintenance activities
- Diagnose and repair faults on motors, variable speed drives, control panels, sensors, instrumentation and automated equipment
- Support fault finding and maintenance across extrusion lines, steam boilers, thermal oil heaters, high-pressure compressors and associated plant equipment
- Perform electrical inspections, testing and remedial works in line with current safety standards
- Ensure maintenance activities, repairs and parts usage are accurately recorded within the CMMS system
- Support root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce downtime and improve performance
- Work closely with production and engineering teams to minimise disruption and maximise equipment availability
- Follow permit-to-work, isolation, lockout/tagout and site safety procedures at all times
- Escalate significant equipment issues and ensure plant is left in a safe condition following maintenance activity
- Contribute to equipment upgrades, reliability improvements and engineering projects
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Electrical Maintenance Technician, Maintenance Electrician, Electrical Engineer or Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician experience
- Level 3 Electrical Engineering qualification, completed apprenticeship or equivalent
- Industrial electrical maintenance experience within manufacturing, production, process or industrial environments
- Strong electrical fault-finding and diagnostic skills
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings and schematics
- Experience working with three-phase systems, motors, drives, control panels and sensors
- Knowledge of PLC-controlled and automated machinery
- Good understanding of electrical safety, isolation procedures and safe systems of work
- Ability to work a Panama shift pattern
Highly Desirable
- PLC fault-finding experience
- Experience with SCADA-controlled systems
- Knowledge of extrusion, process manufacturing or continuous production environments
- Experience using computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
- Mechanical maintenance experience within an industrial setting
- Experience supporting reliability, continuous improvement or plant optimisation initiatives
What's In It For You?
- Join a global advanced manufacturing business with a strong market position
- Work on varied and technically challenging industrial equipment
- Be part of a collaborative and supportive engineering team
- Opportunities for ongoing training and professional development
- Contribute directly to manufacturing performance and site reliability
- Long-term career opportunities within a growing international organisation
- Competitive salary, shift allowance and benefits package
- Stable permanent position at our Croydon manufacturing facility
Build Your Engineering Career with Zotefoams
This role offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact within a busy manufacturing environment where your technical expertise will be valued and developed.
If you're an experienced Electrical Maintenance Technician who enjoys fault finding, solving complex equipment issues and working within a modern production environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply today and become part of the team helping keep Zotefoams' manufacturing operations running safely, efficiently and reliably.
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