Electrical Maintenance Technician
Salary: £46,592 - £46,592Start date: ASAPLocation: ChesterContract type: Permanent
Job description
Cordius is working with a highly successful and very well-known manufacturing company near Chester City Centre; the company is a global business and one of the UK’s leading building materials suppliers to builder’s merchants nationwide. Currently, they are looking for an Electrical Maintenance Engineer to join their team on a permanent day-based role.
Hours: Rotating Shift Rota
Hours: Rotating Shift Rota
Week 1 – Monday to Friday: 0600 - 1400
Week 2 – Monday to Thursday: 1300 – 2200, Friday: 1300 - 1700
The successful candidate will, ideally, be a time-served, apprentice trained electrically biased engineer, with a good working knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic control systems. They will thrive in a busy and demanding environment, possessing electromechanical systems maintenance knowledge, that extends to fault diagnosis, root cause analysis and rectification.
Key Responsibilities:
Week 2 – Monday to Thursday: 1300 – 2200, Friday: 1300 - 1700
The successful candidate will, ideally, be a time-served, apprentice trained electrically biased engineer, with a good working knowledge of pneumatic and hydraulic control systems. They will thrive in a busy and demanding environment, possessing electromechanical systems maintenance knowledge, that extends to fault diagnosis, root cause analysis and rectification.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintenance of electrical and mechanical equipment
- Breakdown response and efficient rectification
- Fault diagnosis and rectification of electrical and mechanical systems involving PLC control
- Achieve team and individual targets
- Complete and control all necessary documentation around engineering activities
- Achieve all activities in line with company regulations and health & safety guidelines Planned preventative maintenance
- Assist with driving continuous improvement and lean activities
Skills and Competencies:
- Positive and proactive attitude
- Motivated to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
- Ability to multi-task and assume responsibility
- Maintenance of machinery, plant, and equipment
- Relay logic and hard-wired systems fault diagnostics
- PLC/HMI bus systems knowledge
- Light to medium mechanical fitting work as and when required
- Electrical installations to latest regulations
- Control techniques PLC/AC & DC drives/Comms
Educational Requirements/Experience:
- 5 years + relevant experience post apprenticeship
- Ability to read Electrical & Engineering drawings
- Ability to fault find — good working knowledge of electrical and mechanical drive systems, pneumatic and hydraulic control systems
- Working knowledge of modern AC & DC drive systems through to standard large motor starting systems
- Good working knowledge of PLC's, pneumatics, hydraulics, variable speed drives (ACDC)
- City & Guilds/ONC in Electrical Engineering
- Time served electrical engineer
- TNC/HND in Electrical Engineering - desirable
Benefits:
- 4 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays
- Contributory pension scheme (following successful probation period)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Healthcare cash plan
- Free car parking onsite
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