Electrical Technician

Baltic Recruitment Services Ltd; Newton Aycliffe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Permanent Mechanical Technician in Newton Aycliffe. The successful candidate will perform maintenance and project installations, contributing to plant reliability in a collaborative engineering team. Qualified electricians with COMPEX certification and teamworking skills are preferred. Competitive salary and benefits including private medical insurance and a pension plan are offered.

Benefits

25 days annual holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Pension Plan

Qualifications

• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Qualified in electrical standards and safety systems.
• Experience in multi-skilled tasks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a positive HSE culture for safety.
• Perform preventative and breakdown maintenance.
• Handle project installations and mechanical work.

Skills

Teamwork

Electrical maintenance

Communication

HSE awareness

Education

ONC standard qualification

Recognised electrical apprenticeship

Tools

COMPEX certificate

Delta V DCS knowledge

Job description

Overview

Baltic Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Permanent Mechanical Technician, for a client located in Newton Aycliffe. Reporting into the Engineering Sector Leader, working as part of a multi-disciplined engineering team the successful candidate will carry out all required aspects of electrical project and maintenance tasks in a safe, timely and professional manner to defined standards and procedures across a wide range of manufacturing plant, equipment and facilities.

Contribute toward engineering continuous improvement initiatives in order to help drive plant reliability whilst also reducing meantime to repair. Provide weekday out of hours engineering call out support to the production department on a rota basis along with other engineering technicians.

Responsibilities

• Promote and maintain a positive HSE culture to ensure a safe working environment is maintained at all times.
• Carry out planned preventative, condition based and breakdown maintenance work as required.
• Carry out project installation work.
• Carry out basic instrumentation and mechanical work.
• Ability to communicate at all levels within the organisation and document information.
• Identify areas of improvement with regard to plant availability, performance and efficiency.
• Provide weekday out of hours engineering call out support to the production department on a rota basis along with other engineering technicians.

Qualifications

• Capable of working individually or as part of a team.
• Qualified to a minimum of ONC standard and undertaken a recognised electrical apprenticeship.
• Demonstrates the ability to carry out additional multi-skilled tasks.
• COMPEX certificate required.
• Delta V DCS and Safety Instrumented System knowledge/experience is desirable.
• Understanding of COMAH is desirable.

Company Benefits

• Holiday entitlement: 25 days annual holiday, plus 8 days statutory holiday. An extra day's holiday will be given after 20 years of continuation service.
• Private Medical Insurance Scheme after 6 months service with the option to add family onto the policy with a salary sacrifice scheme.
• Life Assurance Scheme which increases with continuation of service.
• Pension Plan.

Working

Working a Day Shift, Monday to Friday. Salary is competitive, with an on call out of hours rota (additional pay for being on call).