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Lead Electrical Maintenance Technician

Location

Carrington, United Kingdom

Description

The purpose of the role is to facilitate and safely execute all aspects of Electrical & HV onsite maintenance, optimising the use of the departmental resources to achieve reliability targets whilst ensuring work is completed, within a timely manner to meet with plant production, and schedules.

Responsibilities and accountability

Requirements and expertise

  • Adopt a flexible and pro-active approach to planning & executing multiple maintenance activities including, specification and procurement of materials and equipment, plant change/project work as required supporting colleagues & effectively communicating feedback on work status to operations and maintenance teams
  • As part of the MOWP work with the Planner/Scheduler to prioritise the use of maintenance resources considering total departmental workload, providing horizontal & vertical cover to safely drive maintenance works through to completion to meet with the timeframes set by production schedules, inclusive of Statutory inspections, PdM, Preventive and reactive works.
  • Demonstrate ownership for the site, working closely with the Maintenance Team Leader, also Engineers as and when required, reviewing maintenance schedules & working practices to continuously improve site reliability & minimise downtime.
  • Manage all work with a professional approach to optimise revenue expenditure; follow recognised site procedures for efficient control of maintenance workloads within Electrical/HV department, challenging work scopes to ensure efficiency and value for money is achieved.
  • Support maintenance administration to ensure that departmental tasks are technically completed, job history is recorded, financial allocation is supported within required timeframes.
  • Review pre-task risk assessments for discipline work activities, sub-contractors & third-party vendors.
  • Temporary scheduling and work allocation of the Instrument maintenance technicians during any unforeseen absences.
  • Support the engineers in the development of electrical maintenance procedures, best practices, MOC’s, and E/I documentation.
  • Coaching and mentoring of technicians/Apprentice’s knowledge through continuous development.
Personal skills

Education

  • Minimum NVQ Level 3/ONC or equivalent qualification in discipline engineering

Work experience

  • Essential:
  • Served a recognised discipline related Apprenticeship
  • CompEx 01-04,
  • Experience with, VSD/VFD and motor control systems
  • Initial verification  and periodic inspection of electrical systems
  • Experience with troubleshooting and  Maintenance of PLCs
  • Conversant with reading and understanding of SLDs, schematic and P&IDs
  • Desirable:
  • 5 years’ post training experience on a top tier COMAH Site.
  • CompEx  05-06
  • HV Switching and operations experience

Critical Competencies

  • Strong technical understanding of Electrical standards & best practices in particular heavy industry, Petro-Chemical, Oil & Gas sector.
  • Capability to co-ordinate multiple tasks within a diverse working environment is required.
  • Capable of demonstrating a flexible and pro-active approach to maintenance activities.
  • IT Literate, specifically with Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (ideally SAP) and Microsoft.

Terms & Conditions

  • We offer an attractive compensation package, which includes a competitive starting salary, plus a non-pensionable disturbance allowance once qualified, and participation in the Company’s discretionary short-term incentive (bonus) programme. Currently the full year target for this position is 6% of base salary.
  • The holiday entitlement is 25 days/annum plus bank holidays, and we offer membership of the Company Defined Contribution Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme with employer contributions of up to 10% matching double employee contributions. We also offer Group Life & Income Protection insurances, a Health Cash Plan and a Cycle to Work scheme.
Application process

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