Shift Electrician - Lydney, Gloucestershire

Shift Electrician - 4 on 4 off (2 day, 2 nights) 18 days off after 7 banks of 4!

£45-£47k

Lydney

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MDE are hiring for an experienced Shift Electrician to support the maintenance of fast paced production lines in an industrial setting

You will be a key member of the team involved in reactive and preventative maintenance in order to minimise downtime and increase reliability.

PURPOSE OF JOB

Provide a comprehensive maintenance / electrical breakdown service and support to the relevant department functions of the plant, which will enable the department to operate at a level of availability and performance within agreed standards.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• To ensure safety standards are maintained and safe working procedures are adhered to.
• Reporting any accidents and near misses, to improve the Occupational Safety of personnel
• Diagnosing and repairing equipment breakdowns.
• Identifying failure modes of plant equipment and returning the equipment to operation safely and in a reasonable timescale.
• To follow up all shift reports, SAP and other inspection reports detailing corrective actions
• Identifying failure modes of electrical equipment and making recommendations to prevent further failures.
• Locating spare parts using the maintenance management system.
• Collecting and returning spares to stores.
• To work under the rules of the Electrical and Mechanical safety systems, Issuing certificates / permits as and when required.
• To assess all engineering plant changes using the Management of Change (MOC) system.
• Obtaining maintenance schedules from the maintenance management system (SAP) and feeding back work carried out.
• Work arising to be recorded using notifications.
• To liaise with engineering day teams to identify and resolve long-term engineering issues.

To carry out preventive maintenance routines, including the following:

• Motor brush replacement and set up.
• Investigate and rectify all electrical faults.
• Replace, dismantle and repair AC and DC motors, including cleaning, changing brushes, replacing bearings and couplings, and testing.
• Install, repair and test lighting systems.
• Investigate and rectify faults in portable hand equipment.
• The diagnosis, location and rectification of faults such as short circuiting, overheating, maladjustment or failure of devices.
• Installing, repairing servicing and testing of medium voltage and low voltage power systems, including diesel engine starting, automatic sequence controls, AC and DC medium voltage machines and generators.
• Servicing and repair of equipment used on cranes and lifts e.g. safety devices, control and protective devices.
• Adjustment and alignment of electrical and magnetic contact surfaces in circuit breakers and contactor gear.
• Adjustment of electrical rotating machines such as correct alignment of transmissions, drives and radial clearances, and equalisation of air gaps.
• Fault finding on and repair of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
• Repair of OHT cranes, compressors and other ancillary equipment.

The ideal candidate will have formal qualifications in Electrical Engineering and familiar with working to the highest levels of H&S.

Please note all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK.