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Role: Electrical Maintenance Technician
Location: Northeast Lincolnshire
Salary: £40-45K + Bonus + Healthcare + Pension
The client
A UK-based power company, providing energy to the National Grid. Part of the UK's pathway to Net Zero, complementing the increase in renewable energy to power homes and businesses. Their portfolio includes CCGT, OCG and CHP Power plants as well as hydrogen and carbon capture projects to help lower emissions and develop a future for decarbonised, dispatchable, and flexible generation in the UK.
The Position
To carry out electrical maintenance to the power plant systems to ensure the continued production of electricity to meet customer requirements, achieving best business value and compliance with HSE, company and statutory requirements.
As a member of a team of multi and/or single skilled technicians (Mechanical, Electrical, Control and Instrumentation) carrying out maintenance to a plant comprising complex and diverse range of equipment operating 24/7/365 in a stop and starting regime.
Capable of operating with limited supervision.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Executing routine and non-routine maintenance activities in accordance with agreed procedures and operational requirements to ensure plant is operating safely, effectively and efficiently. Ensuring safe working practices and procedures are adhered to within the work area.
- Carrying out first line electrical maintenance activities, responding to emergency / unscheduled situations in the event of abnormal incidents in order to protect plant and personnel ensuring compliancy with safety and environmental policies.
- Investigating complex technical problems relating to critical plant, identifying, diagnosing and reporting defects within the plant utilising the Maintenance Management system. Defects are resolved whilst maintaining station performance and meeting operational targets by returning plant to normal operating service.
- Preparing work method statements, risk assessment and / or plant operating instructions ensuring the required level of maintenance to asset is achieved and records maintained.
- Preparing work orders; ordering spares, completing risk assessments and identification of resources
- Providing practical discipline leadership for the work, carrying out the delegate person responsibility to assist in ensuring site compliance and elements of the Business Management System reflect the site practices.
- Adopting technical lead role where technical specialist in area of work carried out, in accordance with requests from the maintenance team leader.
- Providing Service Support function to the Operations department and ensures defects and status of any maintenance activity is effectively communicated to the shift teams.
- Supporting the delivery of low contracts, monitoring performance and review with direction and support of the maintenance/engineering team leader
- As well as being appropriately authorised and compliant with site and company safety rules, policies, business procedures, carrying out duties relating the HS&E requirements of the asset, the maintenance facilities and work practices.
- Specific responsibility for ensuring that the site management systems and procedures are being carried out for the work activities of maintenance staff and contractors.
- Proactively contributes to good safety and environmental management within the station.
- Reports unsafe practices, and behaviours of equipment, health, safety and environmental concerns and incidents.
- Ensures correct PPE is worn for work activities whilst using the correct tools and equipment.
- Ensure Process Safety awareness is maintained throughout all activities.
Qualifications
- Possess a HNC or equivalent in an Engineering discipline – essential.
- Minimum of ONC (or equivalent experience) in an appropriate engineering subject – desirable
- Completed a recognised formal training programme or apprenticeship to achieve technician status (C&G parts I, II &III) – essential.
Knowledge
- Practical knowledge of process plant and equipment
- Demonstrable experience within the power generation industry – desirable.
