Electrical Craftsperson

Tarmac; City Of London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Enhanced holiday entitlement

Contributory pension scheme

Rewards website discounts

Employee Assistance helpline

Employee Communities

Training & development opportunities

Job summary

Tarmac is seeking a Shift Electrical Craftsperson to join a 24/7 maintenance team at a large-scale cement plant in the UK. The role covers electrical and process control equipment across quarry, kiln, milling, packing and utilities, ensuring safe and reliable operation during day and night shifts.

You will respond to breakdowns, perform fault finding, and support operational reliability site-wide, including during shutdowns.

Qualifications

• Electrical craftsperson with safe working practices in heavy industrial environments.
• Experience fault-finding on plant equipment and preventing downtime.
• Familiarity with LV/HV motors, switchgear and control panels.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise safety and manage electrical isolations and permit processes.
• Respond to electrical breakdowns and perform fault finding/repairs.
• Develop expertise across instrumentation, PLCs, DCS/SCADA, drives and control gear.
• Carry out fault finding across power, control and process systems in live operations.
• Perform planned preventative maintenance and routine inspections during shifts.
• Support operations to resolve reliability and process issues.
• Assist shutdowns and major maintenance across the site.

Skills

Electrical fault finding

Instrumentation

PLCs & DCS/SCADA

LV & HV motors

Switchgear

Motor control centres

Tools

PLC systems

DCS/SCADA

Industrial networks

Job description

Within the role of shift Electrical Craftsperson you will act as a key member of the 24/7 Maintenance team, focusing on electrical and process control equipment across the plant within a large-scale continuous process cement manufacturing environment.

The role will support critical production equipment across quarry, kiln, milling, packing and utilities areas, ensuring safe and reliable operation of the plant during day and night shift operations.

You will play a key role in responding to plant breakdowns, fault finding, restoring equipment to service safely and supporting operational reliability across the site.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Prioritising safety at all times, demonstrating a strong understanding of health, safety and environmental standards, electrical isolations, permit systems and safe working practices within a heavy industrial environment.
• Responding to electrical breakdowns and carrying out fault finding, diagnostics and repairs on plant equipment in a safe and timely manner.
• Applying existing knowledge or quickly developing expertise in a wide range of equipment, including instrumentation, PLCs, DCS/SCADA systems, LV & HV motors, switchgear, motor control centres, control gear, AC & DC systems, variable speed drives, industrial communications systems and specialised control panels.
• Carrying out systematic electrical fault finding across power, control and process systems within a live production environment.
• Performing planned preventative maintenance and routine inspections during shift periods.
• Assisting operations teams in identifying and resolving plant reliability and process issues.
• Supporting shutdown activities and major maintenance works across the site.
• Working across a large industrial site including outdoor plant areas, substations, elevated structures and dusty process environments.

At Tarmac, 'who you are' matters. We want to get to know you. If you share our values and are proud of a job well done, collaborative in working well with others and ambitious to make things better, then have a read of what we have on offer. Tarmac is the UK's leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Our innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country's long‑term future., which is located close to Edinburgh. The site is easily accessible from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, North Berwick, Bonnyrigg, Haddington and surrounding areas.

Here at Tarmac, we are working hard to create a dynamic and inclusive environment and it's important that our people come from a variety of different backgrounds.

Why Tarmac

We don't just offer a job, we offer a career.

Alongside this role, you'll have access to industry-leading rewards, development opportunities, and a culture that puts people first, including:

• Bonus scheme
• Enhanced holiday entitlement
• Contributory pension scheme
• Access to the Tarmac Reward website with discounts on retailers, holidays, etc.
• Access to our Employee Assistance helpline for free and confidential advice
• Access to our Employee Communities, where you can network, learn from others, and increase your awareness of the support available to you. Our three Employee Communities are: Health and Wellbeing, Inclusion and Identity, Personal Growth and Development
• Training and development opportunities

Tarmac iscommittedto being aForces-friendly employer. If you're coming from a military background, we'll

support

your transition and help you build a successful career with us

We're proud to be part of CRH, and even prouder to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and arecommittedto creating aninclusiveenvironment for everyone.If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know, we're here to

support you .

Tarmac Trading Limited