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Maintenance electrical engineer job simulation

A maintenance electrical engineer job simulation is practice at keeping a plant running. In a simulated food factory you check an isolation certificate, isolate a motor bucket, read thermography and insulation tests, find a hidden fault under lock-out and write a root cause report. It uses virtual panels, so nothing real is at risk. It is practice, not employment or a safety qualification.

You join Kelbridge Foods Ltd (simulated company), a food manufacturer, maintenance department in Doncaster. A working day takes 30 to 45 minutes. Days 1 to 5 are free, about 3 to 4 hours in all. Premium continues to day 20, about 12 to 15 hours. It is practice, not employment.

Days 1 to 5 are free. You need a free account and no card. Create an account. Or try the 3-minute demo (opens in a new tab), with no account.

Free: 5 days, 3 to 4 hours
A working day: 30 to 45 minutes
Project documents: 7
Certificate, optional: £14.99

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Electrician in a hard hat and face shield testing breakers in an open electrical panel with a multimeter

The project

You join Kelbridge Foods Ltd (simulated company)

Kelbridge Foods Ltd (simulated company) is a food manufacturer, maintenance department in Doncaster. You help its team deliver a project for Kelbridge Foods production department, at Packing hall and utilities block (MCC-1).

You are the junior maintenance electrical engineer at a biscuit factory. In four weeks you check isolation certificates, practise safe isolation, class a thermography round, close a breakdown work order, find a motor fault, and meet a night trip on the chilled water pump that production wants reset at once. You write the root cause analysis, change a drive that is out of stock, face a hot terminal and a contractor working live, and plan the yearly MCC shutdown. The skill is to be safe first, evidence-based second, and useful to production third.

What you will do

Check an isolation certificate and isolate a motor bucket the safe way
Class thermography readings, size spares and read motor insulation tests
Refuse a restart without a root cause and write the RCA from the evidence
Raise an engineering change request for a substitute drive
Plan a shutdown, review arc flash labels and hand over a clear maintenance pack

The people you deal with

Maintenance Managercompany
Senior Maintenance Electriciancompany
Maintenance Plannercompany
Health and Safety Managercompany
Stores Controllercompany
Production Managerclient
Shift Supervisorclient
Drive Supplier Supportvendor

The company, client and site are fictional. The people are fictional too.

Look inside

What the simulator looks like

The workplace, your tickets, the documents and the team chat, as a learner sees them.

Start in the workplace, with the team around you.
Today: the morning email and your tickets for the day.
Work: every ticket, by day, with its status.
A ticket, written the way a colleague would write it.
A project document with its number, revision and status.
Ask a colleague. They are AI colleagues: they help you think, they do not hand out answers.

Screenshots from the simulator. Company, people and data are fictional. Portraits are AI-generated.

Meet the team

The colleagues you work with

You can read their messages and ask them questions. They are AI colleagues with AI-generated portraits, both clearly labelled. They help you think a ticket through; they do not hand out its answer.

GHGareth HolroydMaintenance ManagerSimulated colleague, company side
SBSunita BainsSenior Maintenance ElectricianSimulated colleague, company side
TNTomasz NowickiMaintenance PlannerSimulated colleague, company side
AOAbigail Okafor-ReidHealth and Safety ManagerSimulated colleague, company side
KMKevin MarsdenStores ControllerSimulated colleague, company side
RDRachel DunmoreProduction ManagerSimulated colleague, client side
LFLiam FaircloughShift SupervisorSimulated colleague, client side
IQImran QureshiDrive Supplier SupportSimulated colleague, vendor

Fictional people. Portraits are AI-generated.

What you get

What you walk away with

Run a month in a factory maintenance team: safe isolation, fault finding, root cause and a shutdown plan.

Roles to look for

Maintenance Electrician
Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer (electrical bias)
Maintenance Technician

3762 live openings on the UK jobs board, checked 28 Oct 2026. See the jobs

Your proof

Your work pack, as a PDF and a zip, with your documents, timesheet and skills before and after.
A certificate anyone can verify. Optional, and included in Premium.
An entry on your EDWartens profile under Work experience, marked as a job simulation.
A work record with your skill scores, with Premium.

Free courses that go with it

What you can talk about at interview

You can walk an interviewer through a safe isolation with two supplies, step by step.
You can explain how you decided what to do about hot spots from a thermography round.
In Premium, you can talk through a root cause analysis you wrote and the change it led to.

Day by day

Your 5 free days, and the project they build

Each working day takes 30 to 45 minutes: clock in, a morning meeting, your tickets, an end-of-day report, clock out. Do a day at a time or several in one sitting. On day 1 your manager checks what you know and plans your learning. Every ticket is checked, and you see the model answer after it.

MCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan

For Kelbridge Foods production department (fictional)

Kelbridge's packing hall depends on the chilled water, compressed air and conveyors fed from MCC-1, and its breakdowns have started to repeat. This project keeps MCC-1 safe and reliable: isolations that are checked, faults found from evidence, spares that last and a yearly shutdown planned properly. Done means a maintenance handover pack the next engineer can use without ringing you.

In scope for you

Check isolation certificates and isolate MCC buckets safely
Class thermography points and set re-order points for the critical spares
Close out breakdown work orders and write the root cause analysis for RCA-043
Raise the engineering change request for the substitute drive and commission it
Plan the MCC-1 shutdown and hand over the maintenance pack

You hand over

Isolation certificate reviewSafety document
Thermography action listCondition report
A closed work order with findingsCMMS record
Root cause analysis of a drive tripRCA reportPremium
Engineering change requestChange controlPremium
Maintenance handover packHandover packPremium

Milestones in the free days

By day 3Safe to start: certificate checked, bucket isolated, thermography classedMCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan
By day 5First work order closed and the hidden fault repaired under lock-outMCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan

Tickets, day by day

Day 1
2 tickets
- Induction: safe isolation and site electrical rulesQuiz
- Check a draft isolation certificateDocument review
Day 2
1 ticket
- Safe isolation of an MCC bucketHand-in
Day 3
2 tickets
- Thermography: class and action for each pointTable
- How far over its rating is the mixer motor?Calculation
Day 4
2 tickets
- The isolation boundary is not clearDecision
- Close out work order WO-2026-018342Writing
Day 5
2 tickets
- Find the hidden fault and repair it under lock-outHand-in
- Re-order points for the critical sparesTable

On day 5 you clock out and your manager does a final review with you, and your work pack is ready: the free days, in about 3 to 4 hours.

Premium: days 6 to 20about 12 to 15 hours with the free days

After day 5 the project goes on with a change request, site work, faults, a handover and a capstone reviewed by an engineer. Your manager also checks in on days 5, 10 and 15, and the final review comes after day 20.

By day 10Root cause of the pump trips found, change request raisedMCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan
By day 15Substitute drive commissioned, hot terminal and live-work decisions madeMCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan
By day 20Shutdown planned and the maintenance handover pack deliveredMCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan

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Day 6
1 ticket
- A motor that keeps trippingHand-in
Day 7
1 ticket
- Motor insulation and PI: fit to run or not?Table
Day 8
1 ticket
- Restart the pump without finding the cause?Decision
Day 9
1 ticket
- Write the root cause analysis for RCA-043Writing
Day 10
1 ticket
- Engineering change request for the substitute driveWriting
Day 11
1 ticket
- A hot terminal in the compressor bucketDecision
Day 12
1 ticket
- Commission the substitute driveHand-in
Day 13
1 ticket
- The supplier's engineer in a live bucketDecision
Day 14
1 ticket
- Correct the power factor, and decide on detuningHand-in
Day 15
1 ticket
- Check the arc flash labels against the studyDocument review
Day 16
1 ticket
- How long will MCC-1 be out, and what does it cost?Calculation
Day 17
1 ticket
- Method statement and risk assessment for the MCC-1 shutdownWriting
Day 18
1 ticket
- Capstone: the maintenance handover packHand-in
Day 19
1 ticket
- Reliability of the mixer M-12: MTBF, availability and costCalculation
Day 20
1 ticket
- A conversation about your own workViva

Your workplace

Where you work, and with what

You work in a plant floor with a workshop and offices: Kelbridge Foods (simulated company), Packing hall and utilities block. It is a 3D room with your colleagues in it.

Hours and rhythm

Days, 07:00 to 15:30, Monday to Friday (simulated)

07:00 toolbox talk in the workshop
07:15 work orders handed out from the board
15:00 close out your work orders in the CMMS
15:15 handover to the late shift fitter

You clock in and out of every day. The simulated clock runs faster between events, so a day takes 30 to 45 minutes of real time.

Machines and equipment

Real lab machines stand in the workplace, and the hands-on tickets point to the matching EDWartens Lab exercise. In the UK edition you do the lab exercise yourself, tick a checklist and hand in your notes and figures. It is a self-review hand-in. The lab does not mark you or send us a result.

The lab exercises for this role are listed under Prepare, further down.

Systems and kit

CMMS (simulated). Every job is a work order: you open it, record what you found, the time and the parts, and close it. Tomasz reads every close-out.

PPE on site: Safety boots, Hi-vis vest, Hairnet and beard snood in production areas, Ear defenders on the packing lines, Arc-rated PPE as shown on the equipment label.

The 3D workplace of the simulated company in the Maintenance Electrical Engineer job simulation — The simulated workplace you walk around. The company and the people are fictional.

Skills checked

The skills your manager checks

On day 1 you rate yourself on about eight skills for the role, from never done it to could teach it. Your manager then asks two short "show me" questions on the skills you rated highest. The same skills are rated again at the final review, so you see a before and after.

Safety and safe systems of work
Safe isolation and LOTO
Planned and corrective maintenance
Written communication
Root-cause analysis
Motors and drives
Fault finding
Planning and prioritising

A "How to do this" panel opens on tickets that use a skill you rated low. Where you have shown you know a skill, the help stays folded away, and you can open it any time.

Real documents

The documents you will work with

Each one has a title block with a number, a revision, a status and who prepared, checked and approved it, the way a project document does. You read them, check them and write your own, and what you hand in becomes a controlled document too. Everything is kept in your work pack.

KFM-HSE-001
Electrical safety rules and safe isolation procedure
Rev 3Safety procedure
KFM-SLD-001
Single-line diagram, MCC-1 and packing hall boards
Rev ASLD
KFM-WO-018342
Work order: CV-07 motor terminal box repair
Rev 1Work order
KFM-ISO-0187
Isolation certificate for WO-2026-018342, draft
Rev AIsolation certificate
KFM-THM-014
Thermography round, MCC-1, readings and severity rules
Rev 1Thermography report
KFM-SPR-001
Critical spares list and re-order rule
Rev BSpare parts list
KFM-LOG-005
Your notes from the CV-07 repair, day 4
Rev 1Shift log

Documents that arrive in Premiumchange requests, records, handover

KFM-TST-022
Motor insulation and polarisation index records, six motors
Rev 1Test recordPremium
KFM-RCA-043
Incident file: CWP-1 drive trip at night
Rev ARCA evidencePremium
KFM-ECR-001
Engineering change request: replacement drive for CWP-1
Rev AChange requestPremium
KFM-SLD-001
Single-line diagram, MCC-1: drive replaced in -Q44
Rev BSLDPremium
KFM-PM-001
Preventive maintenance schedule, revised after RCA-043
Rev BPM planPremium
KFM-ARC-001
Arc flash label review: study table and the labels on site
Rev AArc flash labelsPremium
KFM-SHD-001
Annual MCC-1 shutdown: activity list
Rev AShutdown planPremium
KFM-HOV-001
Maintenance handover pack requirements
Rev AHandover indexPremium

Tools

In the industry, and here

Tools in the industry and what you use here
In the industry	Here
Voltage indicator, insulation tester, thermal camera, clamp meter	EDWartens Lab's MCC and panel exercises, with readings you take and tests you record
Work orders and the maintenance system	Work orders and close-out notes as documents and tickets
Isolation certificates, permits and risk assessments	Draft certificates to review and method statements to write
Spreadsheets for spares, test records and shutdown plans	Tables and calculations you complete and have checked

Standards

The standards the work follows

BS 7671
IEC 60364
Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (safe work practice)
HSE guidance HSG85 (electricity at work)
PUWER 1998
IEEE 1584 (study method)
ISO 55001

In the UK

The Maintenance Electrical Engineer role in a UK setting

Who employs this kind of engineer: Food and drink, packaging and manufacturing sites, logistics operators and facilities teams.

Where: Industrial regions such as the North West, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Scotland and the South West have many sites with in-house maintenance teams. This is context, not a statement about vacancies.

UK standards and regulations to know about

Electricity at Work Regulations 1989
The law on safe work with electrical systems. HSE guidance HSG85 explains safe working practices.
HSE guidance HSG85 and GS 38
Safe working practices for electricity, and guidance on electrical test equipment for use by electricians.
BS 7671 and the IET Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing
Inspection of installations, and testing of portable and fixed equipment in service.
PUWER 1998
The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations: equipment must be suitable, maintained and safe to use. HSE guidance L22 explains them.
LOLER 1998
Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations: thorough examination of hoists and cranes.
DSEAR 2002
Relevant wherever dust, such as flour, can form an explosive atmosphere.

Schemes to be aware of

ECS card (Electrotechnical Certification Scheme)
The industry card that many UK electrotechnical employers and sites ask to see. It is linked to qualifications and a health and safety assessment. EDWartens does not issue it, and this simulation does not lead to it.

These are named so that you recognise them. A job simulation does not teach them as a qualification, the tasks use simplified data, and you should always read the current edition of anything you rely on.

Your proof, optional

A certificate you can verify

The free days are free. The graded, verifiable certificate is an optional extra, and it is included in Premium.

A graded, verifiable certificate with your score and band
A public verification page and QR code
One-click add to LinkedIn as a licence or certification
Issued by WARTENS LTD. It is a training certificate, not an accredited qualification, and the company is simulated

Optional: £14.99 including VAT, once you pass.

Job simulation certificate: how it works

Sample

Job Simulation Certificate

Your name

completed the Maintenance Electrical Engineer job simulation at Kelbridge Foods Ltd (simulated company). Your score and band are shown on the real certificate.

Number: EDW-JS-0000
Issued by: WARTENS LTD

Not an accredited qualification. A verification page and QR code are printed on the real certificate.

Premium

Want the full project, reviewed by an engineer?

Premium runs to day 20, about 12 to 15 hours in all, and includes the graded certificate. Your free days carry over, and nothing you did is lost.

£53.99 including VAT, one payment. If you have bought the certificate, you pay £39.00.

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Working days 6 to 20 (about 12 to 15 hours in all): change requests, site work, faults and handover
A capstone deliverable reviewed by an engineer
An AI viva on your own work
The graded certificate and a work record PDF with your skill scores

Prepare

Free courses and labs that get you ready

Linked from the tickets that need them. You can read them before you start.

Free courses

EDWartens Lab guides

The hands-on tickets point to these lab exercises. You do the exercise, tick the checklist and hand in your notes and figures. In the UK edition that is a self-review, and nothing is marked as passed on the lab's say-so.

About the Maintenance Electrical Engineer role

Safe isolation and lock-out: what the real sheet looks like

Safe isolation is a documented sequence for proving a circuit dead before touching it: identify, isolate, secure, test your tester, test the circuit and test your tester again. The exact steps follow your site rules and the safe work rules that apply where you are. In the UK these include the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 and HSE guidance such as HSG85 and GS 38 on test equipment.

In the simulation you review a draft isolation certificate for mistakes, then isolate a motor bucket in an EDWartens Lab MCC exercise. A later case has an unclear isolation boundary, where the right answer is to stop and ask. Lock-out and tag-out extends the same idea to every energy source.

Fault finding: predict, measure, confirm

Good fault finding is a method, not luck. Read the schematic, predict what each reading should be, measure, and only then confirm the cause.

The lab gives you a hidden fault to find and repair under lock-out, and later a motor that keeps tripping. Premium tasks add insulation and polarisation index records for several motors, where you decide which are fit to run. The skill being practised is writing down the evidence, not guessing the part.

Good records make the next fault faster to find.

Root cause report: five whys and evidence

A repair that restores production without finding the cause invites the same fault next week. The project includes a drive that trips at night, with a manager who wants it restarted at once.

You decide whether to restart without a cause, then write the root cause analysis from the evidence in the incident file. A good report lists what was seen, the chain of reasons, the cause and the action that stops a repeat. The preventive maintenance schedule is revised from it.

The shift handover and close-out notes

Maintenance depends on what you write for the next person. You close out a work order with a note that says what was found, what was done and what is left open, and later write a method statement and risk assessment for a planned shutdown of the MCC.

Spares, thermography severity rules and arc flash labels each come with a record to read and a decision to make. The final pack is a maintenance handover that another engineer could pick up cold.

Where maintenance leads

Maintenance engineers move towards reliability, planning, commissioning or substation work. Reading drawings, safe isolation and clear records help in every one of them.

The linked roles, the substation and MCC engineer and the commissioning engineer, are neighbours. The free courses cover electrical safety, fault finding and planning with maintenance systems.

Keep your isolation walk-through, your fault finding notes and your root cause report. Together they make a compact portfolio that shows safe habits first, which is what a maintenance manager looks for in a new engineer.

Keep going

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Content reviewed 19 Oct 2026; the working-day description updated 24 Oct 2026. Practice, not employment.

Questions

Quick answers

What is lock-out and tag-out?

Lock-out and tag-out isolates every energy source before work, locks and tags it, then verifies zero energy by attempting a start and testing with suitable instruments. Electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical and thermal sources are all included.

How do you fault-find an electrical machine?

Work methodically: read the schematic, predict the expected readings, measure under operation, then confirm the cause. For example, an insulation tester can show a winding to earth fault that points to the motor rather than the drive.

What is safe isolation?

It is a documented sequence to prove a circuit is dead before touching it: identify, isolate, secure, test the tester, test the circuit and test the tester again. Follow your site rules and the safe work practice standard for your region.

What is root cause analysis?

It is finding the underlying reason a fault happened so that it does not recur, rather than only replacing the failed part. The simulation asks you to write one from an incident file.

What does a maintenance electrical engineer do each shift?

They handle work orders, breakdowns and planned maintenance, record findings and escalate repeat failures. Clear notes at handover matter as much as the repair.

Which tools do I need to know?

A multimeter, an insulation tester, a clamp meter, a thermal camera and the plant's work order system. In EDWartens Lab's MCC and panel exercises you take readings with virtual versions of these.

Can new starters apply for maintenance roles?

Entry routes include apprenticeships and graduate schemes and vary by employer, so check each advertisement. A documented fault finding and root cause example is useful to talk through in an interview.

Is a virtual fault-finding exercise useful?

It builds the habit of predicting readings and documenting cause. It does not build hands-on test skill, so it complements supervised practice and does not replace it.

Do I need to be a qualified electrician?

No. The simulation teaches the order of work, the paperwork and the safety rules, but it does not make you authorised to work on live equipment. Always follow the rules of your own employer and country.

Is the factory a real one?

No. Kelbridge Foods is a made-up company and the site is simulated. The documents, tests and situations follow what a junior maintenance engineer meets.

How long does it take?

The free week is about ten hours over five days. The full Premium edition runs over twenty working days and about thirty to forty hours, at your own pace.

Which equipment brands does it use?

None. The content is vendor-neutral, so it applies to any plant that follows the same standards.

What do I get at the end?

A work record with scores by task and skill, which shows on your EDWartens profile under Work experience, marked as a job simulation.

Is the Maintenance Electrical Engineer job simulation free?

Yes, to start. Days 1 to 5 are free. The certificate (£14.99) and the Premium edition (£53.99) are optional, and both prices include VAT.

Does it count as work experience?

No. It is a training project at a simulated company, not employment, an internship or a placement. A job simulation is a realistic training project at a simulated company. It is not employment, an internship or a work placement, and it is not a job offer. Hours are active hours the learner logged on EDWartens UK.

A job simulation is a realistic training project at a simulated company. It is not employment, an internship or a work placement, and it is not a job offer. Hours are active hours the learner logged on EDWartens UK.

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Maintenance electrical engineer job simulation

You join Kelbridge Foods Ltd (simulated company)

What you will do

The people you deal with

What the simulator looks like

The colleagues you work with

What you walk away with

Roles to look for

Your proof

Free courses that go with it

What you can talk about at interview

Your 5 free days, and the project they build

MCC-1 electrical reliability and shutdown plan

In scope for you

You hand over

Milestones in the free days

Tickets, day by day

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

Day 12

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