Industrial Electrician - Plant Upgrades & Maintenance

UGL; Portland; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

UGL seeks a skilled Industrial Electrician to support capital upgrades and maintenance at a major Alumina Smelter in Portland, Victoria. This is a non-FIFO, local opportunity, with work across fixed plant, industrial electrical systems and site communications infrastructure.

You will join a multidisciplinary team performing maintenance, breakdowns, shutdowns and upgrade projects in a complex processing environment, ensuring safety and reliability.

Qualifications

• Trade-qualified Electrician with VIC A-Grade license.
• Experience in heavy industrial environments such as alumina, mining, smelting, or manufacturing.
• Hands-on with structured cabling (CAT5/6), fibre optics or industrial communications systems.
• Exposure to PLC/SCADA networks, industrial Ethernet, or control systems networking.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings, schematics, network layouts and P&IDs.

Responsibilities

• Perform electrical installation, commissioning, fault finding and repair on industrial plant & equipment.
• Install, terminate and test structured cabling systems (CAT6 / fibre where applicable).
• Support communications infrastructure including network cabinets, patch panels, field devices and connectivity for control systems.
• Conduct inspections, testing and commissioning of LV/HV electrical systems and associated equipment.
• Assist with instrumentation tasks, including loop checks, device replacement and basic calibration where required.
• Diagnose faults across electrical, control and communications systems.
• Support multiple capital upgrade and brownfield installation projects.
• Work safely within a live processing environment adhering to permit systems, isolations (LOTO) and site procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations and other trades to ensure plant reliability and uptime.

Skills

Heavy industrial environments

Structured cabling (CAT5/6)

PLC/SCADA networks

LV/HV systems

Electrical drawings & P&IDs

Education

Trade-qualified Electrician (A-Grade VIC licence)

Tools

Profinet

Modbus

Ethernet/IP

Job description

UGL seeks a skilled Industrial Electrician to support capital upgrades and maintenance at a major Alumina Smelter in Portland, Victoria. This is a non-FIFO, local opportunity, with work across fixed plant, industrial electrical systems and site communications infrastructure.

You will join a multidisciplinary team performing maintenance, breakdowns, shutdowns and upgrade projects in a complex processing environment, ensuring safety and reliability.