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Electrical, Controls and Maintenance Technician
Job Posted: 11 hours ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Northwich, Cheshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Astute's Power Team are working with one of the country's leading Waste Management companies and supporting the recruitment of their newest Energy from Waste facility. The Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant is currently under construction, and when complete will be exporting ~70MW of electricity to the grid, processing circa 600,000 tonnes of waste per year.
We are looking for an Electrical, Control and Instrumentation Technician to join the Maintenance Team of this exciting project. As an EC&I Technician, you'll be responsible for carrying out reactive and preventative maintenance across a variety of critical EC&I assets. You'll also be involved with supporting commissioning activities and working towards the plants operational handover.
If you're interested and have the right skillset then please apply.
Responsibilities and duties of the Electrical, Controls and Instrumentation Technician role:
Reporting directly to the EC&I Team Leader, as an EC&I Technician, you will be responsible for:
Pre-planned and reactive maintenance duties on all electrical, controls and instrumentation assets across the power station
Fault finding/maintaining mostly electrical system; motors, drives, single phase & three phase equipment, switchgear, high/low voltage plant etc. and Instrumentation (pressure, temperature, level & flow) and control systems
Calibrating instrumentation
Conducting continuous improvement activities, plant modifications and design work
Supervising 3rd party contractors
Working in line with maintenance techniques and best practices
Assisting in plant developments and projects
Maintaining accurate maintenance records on the site CMMS
Assist in outage planning, scheduling and coordination.
To ensure the availability of plant spares
Professional qualifications
We are looking for someone with the following:
Ideally qualified in a recognised Electrical / C&I apprenticeship in a heavy process industry
A relevant technical qualification such as an NVQ / ONC / HNC in Electrical, Control or Instrumentation engineering or a similar discipline
IOSH or NEBOSH would be advantageous
Personal skills
The EC&I Technician role would suit someone who has:
At least 5 years of hands-on maintenance experience with motors, switchgear, instrumentation (flow, level, pressure, temperature etc) and control systems (SCADA, DCS and PLC)
Practical knowledge of process plant and equipment gained in a heavy engineering environment such as power generation, petrochemical, steel works, CHP plant, paper mill etc. Royal Navy Marine Engineers will also be considered.
Experience with High-Voltage equipment such as transformers / switchgear will be advantageous.
Salary and benefits of the Electrical, Controls and Instrumentation Technician role
A competitive salary
Site bonus up to 12%
Overtime
A contributory pension
Opportunity to work on one of the newest Energy from Waste plants in the UK
INDPOW
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