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Form of workElectrical Craftsperson
Cockermouth
About us
The James Walker Group is a dynamic global manufacturing organisation supplying a vast range of high performance fluid sealing products and associated knowledge-based services to virtually every industry sector. With state-of-the-art skills in materials technology, particularly relating to elastomers, polymers, composites and engineering plastics plus extensive expertise in precision machining of exotic alloys for metallic seals, and tension control fasteners for bolted joints. Our worldwide group of companies has 11 operations and a further 40 spread across Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, SE Asia, South Africa and the USA.
The Position
This Electrical Craftsperson role is based at James Walker & Co. Ltd, Cockermouth, Cumberland the largest manufacturing site in the James Walker Group which has been in operation on the site for over 50 years and employs over 400 people. This business unit typically operates a high variety, low volume, bespoke manufacturing operation across a 3-shift operation. The site supplies advanced engineering elastomers for critical applications in Oil & Gas, Energy/Power, Marine, Nuclear, Defense, Pharmaceutical, Power Generation and Aerospace industries through its vertically integrated capabilities which include product development and design, tool making, compounding, extrusion, molding, testing and global distribution.
Key responsibilities
- Carry out electrical maintenance and installation activities to a range of manufacturing equipment.
- Find faults and solutions across a wide range of James Walker equipment.
- Work alongside and support other trades where necessary.
- Carry out preventative maintenance work on James Walker equipment.
- Interrogate PLC systems to assist with fault finding where appropriate.
- Be part of a Call Out system to repair any key equipment which breaks down outside of core working hours.
Experience and Qualifications
- Previous experience of Preventative Maintenance technique
- Experience with various PLC and motor inverter types preferred.
- Fault-finding on electrical control systems.
- ONC in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering (HNC is preferred)
- NVQ Levels 2 & 3 in Electrical/Instrumentation Engineering
