Electrical Engineer

Diamond Search Recruitment are delighted to be representing our client, an innovative and sustainable organisation, who are recruiting for an Electrical Engineer, based in Lenham, Kent. This permanent opportunity offers an attractive salary of up to £40,000 per annum.

Working pattern:

Working part of a rotating 3 shift system: 06:00-14:00, 08:00-16:00 and 14:00-22:00 Monday - Friday.

Saturday/Sunday working may be requested (as required) paid as overtime.

The role:

You will be responsible for the implementation and execution of all corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance in all areas of the process. Implementation and development of the site CMMS and liaising directly with the Engineering Manager.

You will be directly involved in the planning stages of all planned outages to ensure outage time schedules and specific maintenance programmes are completed on time and within budget. Direct supervision/liaison with sub-contractors either as a general additional maintenance resource or through specific maintenance contracts.

Responsibilities:

Health & Safety -

• Ensure that all activities within the site are carried out in a safe manner in line with the company Safety Policy and all Health & Safety statutory requirements.
• Carry out Risk Assessments to ensure activities are completed in a safe manner at all times.
• Working as part of a team striving for continual improvement in minimising Health & Safety risk at the manufacturing plant.
• Ensure visitors/subcontractors attending the site are inducted in the site safety and emergency procedures.
• Ensure that the sites housekeeping standards are achieved and developed.
• To ensure that the implementation and use of specific tool box talks are carried out consistently and documented accordingly.
• To act as the authorised/nominated person, within the limits of their competence, by issuing safety permits as and when required.
• To strive to introduce best practice and "right first time philosophy" within the maintenance department.

Plant development -

• To assist in the implementation of equipment upgrades and replacement in line with the agreed process priorities.
• To be a key member in the planning, execution and completion of the annual planned shutdown (usually 3 main shutdowns per year).
• To be actively involved in all statutory inspections of the plant and equipment on an annual basis.
• To be actively involved in the day to day use of, implementation and the development of the company CMMS.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• City & Guilds/ONC qualified (ideally in Electrical/Instrumentation & Control).
• Having completed a recognised apprenticeship from within a comparable industry.
• Proven experience from within the Power, Paper, Cement or Energy from Waste industries, or from a FMCG manufacturing environment.
• Previous CMMS experience an advantage.
• Ideally holding an IOSH safety accreditation.
• Experience with preventative/predictive maintenance techniques (thermography, PAT testing, medium voltage working environments).
• Electrically, Instrumentation/Control the ideal candidate will have experience with instrumentation and control systems to include Siemens PLC’s, DCS and all forms of level, temperature, pressure and flow control.
• The ability to be able to carry out basic welding repairs.

This is a really exciting opportunity to work for a well established company who offer great benefits, such as, Onsite Parking, Employee discount, Company Social Club (discounted ticketed events), Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Referral Scheme, Company Pension and much more.

Diamond Search Recruitment is working as an Employment Agency regarding this vacancy