Electrical Engineer

Maintain electrical equipment, machinery and services, auxiliary instruments/gauges, improve reliability and comply with safety requirements across the Plant. Develop plans for replacing or updating old and obsolete equipment, the attitude to fix faults and offer continuous improvement across all areas.

Complete and record all electrical installation and modification work on machines and equipment to ensure compliance with Health and Safety legislation.

Conduct risk assessment and write Safe System of Work for various tasks and equipment, and assist in PUWER assessment of plant and equipment.

To plan and implement updates and replacement of obsolete equipment.

To support the maintenance strategy for old and new equipment, develop schedules on the computerised maintenance management system to improve reliability, including power plant, PLC and control systems, plant instrumentation and any servicing or calibration.

Monitor faults or breakdowns logged and associated losses and implement reliability improvements.

Mentor site electrical resource and support with logical fault-finding techniques to resolve issues, and to follow up with corrective actions, write up ‘one-point lessons’ and appropriate roll out to other plant and equipment.

Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a CAD system; write up relevant PLC programmes with an updated Control Synopsis.

Install hardware for improvements to the line, which can include conduit, sensors, relays, range of PLCs, logic systems, level equipment, instrumentation, motors, control equipment etc.

Complete and record maintenance checks and repairs on machines and equipment in line with maintenance schedules. Monitor and report on completion. Develop schedules on the computerised maintenance management system to improve reliability.

Utilise logical fault-finding techniques to resolve issues, consulting drawings, PLC programs and test equipment e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic probe etc.