Job Title: Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias)
Reporting to: Maintenance Shift Leaders
We are seeking a multi-skilled and motivated Maintenance Engineer (Electrical Bias) to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of our electrical systems and equipment while having a basic mechanical knowledge.
You will carry out planned maintenance, respond to breakdowns, and support continuous improvement projects across our facilities. We are looking for a hardworking, honest and flexible individual to aid in the company’s needs.
This is a full-time, permanent position, working shifts on a rotational basis (day and back shift). Salary Starting from £40,000 per annum, dependant on the experience.
About the Role
Key responsibilities in this role will include:
- Perform preventative and corrective electrical maintenance on machinery, equipment, and building systems.
- Diagnose faults, troubleshoot issues, and carry out timely repairs to minimize downtime and allow production to be streamlined.
- Communicate and work with other departments throughout the site to ensure machines and equipment are maintained to a high standard and in safe operational use.
- Install, maintain, and test electrical systems in accordance with regulations and safety standards.
- Work closely with our other electrical technicians and mechanical engineers to resolve technical problems.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records on the company’s internal CMMS software
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental policies.
About you
The ideal candidate will have:
- Recognised electrical qualification e.g., SVQ, 18th Edition.
- Proven experience in electrical maintenance within an industrial, manufacturing, or facilities environment.
- Strong fault-finding and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings and schematics.
- Knowledge of PLCs and Drive faults and systems.
- Strong awareness of health & safety practices.
- Experienced working with motor systems.
- Basic fault finding on mechanical systems.
If you’re a self-motivated Maintenance Technician with a electrical background and a passion for problem-solving, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
Founded in 1797, Johnstons of Elgin is an innovative, luxury clothing brand celebrating 225 years of experience in working with the world’s finest fibres. Across three centuries, our family-owned company has carefully sources cashmere and fine woollen fibres from around the world, ing the latest technology and highest quality craft expertise in our very own vertical Scottish mills. Employing over 1,000 staff, our valued employees and communities are at the heart of everything we do, producing unique, high-quality designs that are made to last. Our brand is focused on sustainability, working with natural, renewable, and biodegradable fibres and we are committed to maintaining a minimal environmental footprint.
Johnstons of Elgin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer wholeheartedly supporting the principles of equality and diversity to build an inclusive workforce. Our aim is to embed diversity and inclusion in everything we do to create an environment where our employees feel safe to be their whole authentic self without having to downplay or change parts of their identity. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, which goes beyond those characteristics protected by law to include everything that makes us unique, from our backgrounds and experiences to our personalities and ways of thinking.
We endeavour to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities and encourage any candidate who requires assistance to contact us at
[email protected].
Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to to jobs unless they meet every single requirement or qualification. At Johnstons of Elgin, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role but think your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or another role
Please note all applicants must be able to provide evidence of their right to remain and take up paid employment in country job is based.
Closing date – Friday, 5 June 2026
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