Electrical Technician

Biffa Waste Services; Horsham; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Shift Electrical Technician at a state-of-the-art facility. This role offers the chance to drive engineering activities and maintain high standards of safety and compliance. You'll work on a variety of electrical systems, ensuring optimal plant availability through both reactive and preventative maintenance. With opportunities for ongoing career development and a supportive work environment, this position is perfect for those passionate about making a difference in waste management. Embrace a rewarding career where your skills will help transform the way we think about waste.

Benefits

Ongoing Career Development

Generous Pension Scheme

Retail and Leisure Discounts

Holiday and Travel Discounts

Life Cover

Qualifications

• Experience in electrical maintenance within manufacturing or automated environments.
• Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings is essential.
• Competent in fault finding on PLCs and electrical systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering activities to ensure plant availability and compliance.
• Conduct reactive maintenance and planned preventative maintenance.
• Report accidents and maintain high housekeeping standards.

Skills

Electrical Fault Finding

PLC Programming (Siemens S7)

Preventative Maintenance

HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Health and Safety Compliance

Education

HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering

BS7671 18th Edition

Dynamic Proof of Instrumentation and Control Training

Tools

Control Panels

MCC Layout

Flow Meters

Job description

Help us make a difference as a Shift Electrical Technician at our West Sussex MBT/AD facility.

£47,521 - £50,836 (after 3 months) per annum.

Shift Pattern is Monday to Friday with 1 out of 4 Saturday's.

Week one - 06:45 - 14:45

Week two - 14:30 - 22:30

A quick look at the role.

The role holder will effectively drive engineering activities at Biffa MBT facility to deliver all operational aspects of the facility. The role holder will be responsible for driving plant availability through ensuring all PPM’s, reactive maintenance, engineering, and process improvements are carried out and implemented in a timely manner. The role holder will drive best practice on a shift basis through high engineering, compliance and H&S standards.

Your core responsibilities.

• The role will include working reactively, dealing with machinery problems and breakdowns, as well as working through planned preventative maintenance and project work. The electrical work covers everything from sensors, relays, ac/dc motors, contactors, control panels and PLC’s. Ideally, we are looking for someone who can fault find on PLC’s, preferably Siemens S7, but anything else is considered.
• The idea candidate will have experience of working in a similar environment, so either manufacturing or industrial or automated, supporting maintenance work. You must be electrical qualified and competent.
• Ensure all accidents, incidents and near misses are reported immediately.
• Ensure housekeeping is maintained to high standards
• Motor electrical and mechanical fault finding, familiarity with MCC layout of panels.
• Controls and Instrumentation (temperatures, pressure transducers, flow meters etc). Ability to read and interpret electrical drawings. Electrical fault diagnoses. PLC hardware knowledge

Our essential requirements.

• HNC Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• BS7671 18th edition (advantageous)
• Previous health and safety training – Does not need to be in date but proof of experience
• CompEx (advantageous)
• Dynamic Proof of Instrumentation and control Training

Here's why you'll love it at Biffa.

• Ongoing career development, training and coaching – Because if you don’t grow, we don’t grow.
• Generous pension scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Life cover.

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.