About this Opportunity

The purpose of the Electrical Engineer role is to maintain all electrical equipment, machinery, auxiliary instruments, and gauges, ensuring minimum disruption to production and compliance with safety requirements across the plant. 

You will be working on new designs, both independently and alongside design and test engineers to devise innovative solutions to maximise line efficiency and support production output. You will also provide technical support to manufacturing teams. 

Main Responsibilities

Electrical Maintenance
•    Carry out and record maintenance work on machines and equipment, ensuring compliance with electrical safety legislation
•    Comply with planned electrical maintenance schedules
•    Update electrical programmes and associated programmes to ensure that information is current
•    Conduct research into the development and implementation of new and existing equipment
•    Perform statutory inspection and testing procedures, and safety inspections as per agreed schedule
•    Ensure care of plant instrumentation and undertake any servicing or calibration required
•    Provide flexible support across all manufacturing departments, where safety and training allow
•    Maintain an understanding of electrical safety legislations and regulations and ensure compliance with both
 
Fault Finding and Repair
•    Determine the nature of faults or breakdowns from information received from production personnel and interrogate the equipment 
•    Analyse the symptoms of the fault, make initial assessments and if required report faults via usual reporting channels 
•    Rectify faults and return the equipment to full production, in a safe and timely manner
•    Utilise logical fault-finding techniques to check through circuits, consulting with electrical drawings and using test equipment (e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic probe) etc., or VDU programme details as appropriate 

Installation and Modification
•    Install or commission new equipment in conjunction with Crown project support, external contractors, and suppliers
•    Design and draw up circuit diagrams using a CAD system; write up relevant PLC programmes
•    Recommend and implement improvements to line and ancillary equipment
•    Install hardware for modifications to the line, which can include mechanical containment of any nature, conduit, sensors, relays, range of PLCs, logic systems, level equipment, instrumentation, motors, control equipment etc. 

Analysis
•    Analyse line performance in relation to speed, temperature and product flow and update PLC programmes to achieve optimum performance
•    Assess the feasibility of suggestions for improvements from all personnel and action improvements if appropriate
•    Record all changes in the online logbooks, electronic data and modification sheets 

Required Education and Qualifications
•    Level 3 Apprenticeship (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronic Engineering (with an electrical bias)
•    Experience with PLCs