REQ ID: 128603
JOB TITLE: Electrical Maintenance Technician
SALARY: £44,925 + Shift Allowance

POSTING START DATE: 08/08/2025

POSTING END DATE: 20/08/2025
LOCATION: Solihull

As a qualified skilled professional at JLR, you’ll bring to life era-defining vehicles that people across the world know and love. You’ll collaborate with other expert technicians and leaders in skilled roles, who lend their insight to help realise our vision of modern luxury. Your dedication to excellence will ensure our production lines run smoothly and meet the highest quality standards. Craft an exceptional career with us.

In this electrical biased role, you will have a fantastic opportunity to join a highly skilled, maintenance team based at our facility in Solihull.

You’ll get to deliver on excellence by providing engineering maintenance support to all manufacturing assets and equipment.  Our manufacturing technologies includes automated equipment comprising of robots, automated welding and joining equipment, laser joining systems, automated conveyors, complex tooling, and fixturing and lifting equipment. 

Through our purpose, vision, strategy and transformation, you'll get to show your maintenance skills, behaviours and competencies in all you do contributing to the JLR brand heritage.  Continuous development means that Solihull represents one of the greatest manufacturing growth stories in the UK for a generation.

WHAT TO EXPECT

In this role, no two tasks are the same. Here’s what to expect day to day:

• Experience in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC's) with at least Ladder Logic understanding
• Carry out electrical maintenance (for example, termination of industrial connectors and power sockets)
• Fault diagnosis of various motor types
• Programming robot positions and editing the robot program

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Along with your ambition to achieve the exceptional, there are several skills you'll need to have to help you succeed here, including:

• A time served recognised indentured/certificated Advanced Apprenticeship or Armed Forces equivalent (i.e. Advanced Modern Apprenticeship, Craft Apprenticeship, IMI certificated Advanced Apprenticeship) in electrical engineering, electical maintenance or other relevant subject
• Previous experience in a similar role in maintenance operations in Manufacturing
• Technical (mechanical and electrical) automotive engineering skills gained in Manufacturing
• Knowledge of PLC / Electrical Control / Mechanical Systems
• You will need the right to work in the UK without any visa sponsorship requirement by JLR as this role is not eligible for sponsorship.

BENEFITS

This role is rewarding in more ways than one. On top of our core offering, you’ll do extraordinary work with amazing people. In addition, you can expect a wide range of benefits:

• Discounted car purchase scheme (open to family members, too)
• A 52 week maternity leave policy and a 4 week paternity leave policy. Other parental leave policies are available.
• A competitive pension
• A JLR company performance-related bonus
• An employee learning scheme providing funding for; education, training and other activities which support the development of personal skills and promote lifelong learning.
• Access to open, employee-led support and social networks

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs. 

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application, as this role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.