Compex Electrician

Job Title: Compex Electrician

Location: Ideally you will live within 30 miles of Knowsley Merseyside, Perth Scotland or Avonmouth Bristol.

Salary: £49,100 + Company Van + Fuel Card + Night out allowance + Overtime.

Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm (40 hours)

Contract / Permanent:  Permanent Vacancy

Start Date: ASAP

Job Overview:

Join our clients and help power one of the largest Liquid Petroleum Gas suppliers in the UK, whilst developing your career in a company that's working towards supplying 100% renewable energy to customers by 2040. All of which means a future where you can develop your skills and expertise to work with a range of new energies, from innovative renewable gases to biofuels and solar. And you can do it all in a company where you - and your wellbeing - matter. 

My clients team are looking for a Hazardous Area Electrician, where you'll play a pivotal role in the installation, maintenance, inspection, and testing of LPG/LNG plants across the UK.

Responsibilities:

As a Hazardous Area Electrician, your key responsibilities will include:

• Installing new customer LPG/LNG plants throughout the UK.
• Conducting electrical inspections and rectification work on customer installations across the country.
• Performing electrical inspections, rectification work, and full plant upgrades on installations nationwide.
• Assembling LPG vaporizers, Pump skid units, and package boiler houses off-site.
• Prepare and install IECEx/Atex rated equipment, including motors, control stations, junction boxes, and lighting.
• Metal trunking, conduit, tray, SWA cables, glands, and LV distribution.

As a Hazardous Area Electrician, you'll help install, maintain, inspect and test Liquid Petroleum Gas and Liquid Natural Gas plants throughout the UK. The work's varied. One day you might be assembling or installing LPG vaporisers, pump skid units and package boiler houses for our growing range of business customers, from distilleries to national retail chains. The next, you could be updating our clients own plants across the country, or working on sustainable energy solutions like the development of biomethane plants. Wherever the day takes you, you'll make sure you're doing energy right by your customers and your team- and putting safety first, always.

Here's what's in it for you:

• Basic salary of £49,100 with overtime available of up to 12 hours the potential earnings are up to £65,000.
• 25 days holiday plus statutory, and opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Pension with contribution from us
• Life assurance up to 4 times salary
• £30 per night payment if working overnight
• Company van, tools and qualification renewal costs covered
• Fully funded eye test and contribution towards glasses
• Opt-in Health Cash plan worth up to £900 per year
• Annual flu vaccination
• Enhanced maternity/paternity benefits
• Training opportunities
• Discounts at 900 retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme including 24/7 helpline
• 1 volunteering day off a year
• Monthly employee recognition awards

Qualifications and Skills:

What we'll need from you as a Hazardous Area Electrician

• You'll need to be an approved electrician, with an accredited apprenticeship or comparable qualification (JIB Graded Gold card or above)
• Compex 01-4 
• Inspection and Testing C&G 2391 or 2394 & 2395 
• A CCSNG/JIB or equivalent Safety passport
• Skilled in the installation of IECEx/Atex rated equipment, including motors, control stations, junction boxes and lighting
• Proficient in the installation of Metal Trunking, conduit, and tray, SWA cables and glands, LV distribution equipment and ancillaries
• Good understanding of schematic, Loop, P&ID, and zone drawings as well as control systems and fault finding
• Good IT literacy in Microsoft Excel and Office
• Willing to perform a role that can be physically demanding and involves some heavy lifting

Our clients do energy right by hundreds of thousands of customers across Britain who live, work, relax or holiday off-grid. Powered by people like you, we connect them to the energy they need, when and where they need it. With the backing of the global Group DCC, they've grown over the last 35 years to become one of the largest suppliers of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) in the country. Now we're investing heavily in new infrastructure and innovations, so we can deliver 100% renewable energy to our customers by 2040 - and a career with a bright future to you.

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