Production Eica Technician

Our client supplies high quality water to Portsmouth and the surrounding areas. They are looking to hire an Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (EICA) Technician to work at their water treatment works, reservoirs and booster stations across Hampshire and West Sussex. You will be maintaining, fault finding, testing, inspecting and repairing EICA plant and equipment for the area's water treatment works and associated Network distribution assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with planned maintenance schedules.
• Maintain, diagnose, repair, modify, configure, commission instrumentation, logic controllers,
• SCADA systems, telemetry equipment, control circuitry, low voltage switchgear and motor drives.
• Visit water treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs to monitor asset performance and
• operability.
• Collect asset health and performance data, recording routine activities and work completed.
• Respond to breakdowns on a range of EICA plant, assess problems and carry out repairs.
• Ensure that equipment is maintained and calibrated to the manufacturers specifications and is
• auditable.

Skills and Competencies

• Adaptable with good attention to detail.
• Accountable for own actions with a willingness to collaborate with others, whilst developing and sharing knowledge, ideas, and best practice with others.
• Empathetic, self-aware, and comfortable with constructively challenging areas that could be improved.
• Systems based skills, open to learning new technology.

Qualifications and Experience

• A recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field.
• An HNC/HND in electrical and/or electronic engineering.
• BS7671 18th Edition Wiring Regulations
• Relevant experience in a process and industrial environment.
• Experience in diagnosing and remediating complex system faults.
• Experienced working with PLC, SCADA and telemetry software packages
• Knowledge of OT communications protocols
• Knowledge of basic hydraulic principles.
• Proficient with working from electrical drawings.
• A good understanding of water treatment processes and / or water industry exposure.
• Full UK driving licence (Will be required to undertake their driver assessment).

Benefits

• 27 days holiday increasing up to 31 days, plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme of up to 15%
• Life assurance of 4 times pensionable salary
• Standby payments of 12% to 20% depending on the frequency