Operations Technician
About the Role
Location United Kingdom Kent Rochester Company Siemens Energy Limited Organization Grid Technologies Business Unit Service Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Not defined Title - Operations Technician Location - ElecLink HVDC Interconnector, Folkestone, Kent A Snapshot of Your Day The Operational Technician currently takes part in a 24/7 365 day per year 5-person shift rota. The rota is currently a 4-on, 4-off arrangement. The key responsibility is to operation of the HVDC link commercially and operationally from our control room to achieve efficient availability and to meet contractual requirements.Operate the HVDC link in accordance with ElecLink’s commercial policyOperate the HVDC link asset in line with operational procedures and policy.Compliance to all Siemens Energy policies and proceduresAssist with outage maintenance How You’ll Make an Impact
1. Carrying out alarm management, initial investigations from the HMI and reporting faults to the engineers
2. Complete a daily shift report and distribute to all relevant collaborators.
3. Conduct effective handovers.
4. Manually and automatically operate the commercial function, EDS and EDL system.
5. Perform initial emergency response activities.
6. Continual improvement of the control room documentation and procedures.
7. Work with the engineers to ensure works on site is aligned with health and safety policies, radios for communication and safety documentation is issued.
8. Manage work orders via the asset work management system
9. Report health and safety issues into the designated system
10. Assist, where necessary, outage maintenance tasks
11. All leave is to be covered with effort to ensure the control room is always staffed.
What You Bring
12. Formal qualification to HNC level or relative experience required
13. Engineering accreditation the IET desirable
14. IOSH or NEBOSH desirable
15. Authorisation under HV safety rules desirable
16. Several years experience working within a maintenance environment on industrial sites
17. IT Literacy
18. Good communication & interpersonal skills
19. Integrity when speaking to the TSO and the client
20. Good timekeeping skills
21. Organisational skills
22. Team working abilities
23. Demonstrate evidence of understanding of H&S legislation and Risk Management Processes
24. French language is desirable but not crucial
25. Willingness to attend training