About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for an Electrical and Control and Instrumentation Technician to join us at Kings Lynn Power Station!
This role will predominantly be a days role, with occasional overtime and weekend working required.
1. As a member of the Stations Operations and Maintenance Team, you will contribute towards delivering the day to day maintenance and operational requirements to ensure the safe, reliable, and commercial performance of the power station. Utilising your background knowledge and experience in the field of Electrical, Control and Instrumentation engineering, specifically in modern heavy industry, your duties and responsibilities will include routine preventative maintenance, fault diagnosis and breakdown recovery.
2. The discipline Engineering team will provide direction and support as appropriate. You are required to effectively collaborate with Engineering & Outage teams, supporting plant shutdowns and recommissioning.
3. This post offers the opportunity to work in a responsive site team environment and experience a wide range of maintenance and operations responsibilities that support the continuous improvement agenda and leverage the Station's ability to respond to operational needs within the UK portfolio.
4. Meet both legislative and corporate requirements & standards ensuring effective safety and operational practices are adopted.
5. Implementing effective maintenance strategies; carrying out routine maintenance, core skill first line fault diagnosis and problem solving to ensure that the plant is maintained to appropriate standards and in accordance with RWE procedures. Specify and procure spare parts in accordance with company policies, procedures, and budget requirements. Management of outage work packages to ensure safe completion to the required quality and timescale.
6. Provide discipline support for plant breakdown and outages with out of hours and weekend overtime opportunities to meet the needs of the business.
7. Contract responsibilities - Involvement in the execution of maintenance contracts and onsite work - inclusive of craft & contractor supervision. Planning, organizing, executing and where necessary supervising maintenance activities on the station.
Job requirements and experience
8. Hold a minimum of a level-3 Engineering qualification in your discipline such as a BTEC, NVQ or ONC.
9. Experienced in a wide range of electrical, control and instrumentation maintenance activities in heavy, process or power industry.
10. Have proficient interpersonal skills and be competent in the use of applicable business IT systems, previous experience of working with Computerised Maintenance Management Systems.
11. Be a self-motivated, resourceful individual able to work with the minimum of supervision, whilst being capable of providing support to the team.
12. Demonstrable knowledge and experience of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation, regulations, and directives.
13. Hazardous area equipment (Compex Ex01-Ex04) desirable
14. IOSH – Managing Safely
Your Benefits
15. An expected starting salary from £49,383 to £63,907 depending on experience and up to 10% annual bonus
16. A personal retirement savings plan –and you will get life assurance worth 4 x annual salary
17. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, pro-rata
18. Company Paid Private Medical Insurance for you and your family
19. One free professional membership subscription
20. Access to flexible benefits such as Critical Illness, Dental Plan, Health Cash Plan, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle2Work, Electric Car Lease Scheme, Buy Additional Annual Leave, and retail savings scheme.
21. Up to 2 days volunteering a year
To view a preview of our benefits site ‘YourHub’ and see some of the other benefits we have on offer please visit https://www.edenred.co.uk/campaigns/rwe-yourhub/index.html
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