Electrician / Electrical Maintenance Engineer

AmcoGiffen; Newbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hourly rate negotiable

Transport provided

On-call rota uplift

Overtime uplift

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Company contributory Pension scheme

Life Insurance

Medicash Health Plan & Rewards

Career development opportunities

Safe place to work

Job summary

AmcoGiffen seeks an enthusiastic Electrician with mechanical awareness to support regional framework maintenance across the Midlands. You will handle electrical and mechanical asset repair, including SCADA, PLCs, and control panels, with travel across the UK canals and rivers as required.

You will interpret electrical drawings, perform fault finding on PLCs and HMIs, and assist in calibration, testing and commissioning of systems while working in a dynamic multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Qualified electrician with instrumentation, PLC/HMI and SCADA experience.
• Full UK driving license and multi-site project exposure.
• Experience interpreting electrical drawings and testing installations.
• Knowledge of software updates, fault finding and calibration.
• Desirable: mechanical system familiarity and cross-disciplinary projects.

Responsibilities

• View live/historical data for client assets.
• Configure systems, upload/download software, modify sequences.
• Test communications and connect instrumentation.
• Update firmware and save configurations/isographs to client DB.
• Troubleshoot faults and perform repairs and maintenance.
• Participate in 365 days-per-year on-call rota with team.

Skills

Instrumentation

PLC/HMI/SCADA knowledge

Fault finding

Electrical testing

Multi-project experience

Education

City & Guilds Electrical Engineering

City & Guilds 2391-10 Level 3 Certificate in Electrical Installations

C&G 2382-10 17th Edition BS7671

Tools

Mitsubishi PLCs

QR series PLCs

SCADA software

Electrical drawings interpretation

Job description

Location

• Castle Donnington, Midlands, or
• Gloucester

(Midlands region and some travel further afield where necessary)

The Role

We require an enthusiastic and technically astute Electrician with some Mechanical experience /knowledge based in the Midlands and responsible for covering our regional framework maintenance projects. Our framework team are responsible for carrying out repairs and maintenance to assets and infrastructure around the UK’s Canals and Rivers including associated Electrical and Mechanical asset repair such as switch gear, control panels, PLC and SCADA equipment, moving structures, pumps etc.

Joining the company as an Electrician in the specialist Mechanical & Electrical framework team, you will undertake Electrical (and mechanical) asset repair and maintenance responsibilities that include working with SCADA, Electrical drawings (interpreting and designing), Fault Finding on PLC’s, HMI’s, Electrical Testing RCD, Earth Loop impedance, R1/R2 Loop tests, Human Machine Units, Solar Panels and charging stations, Ultrasonic/Shaft encoders, MMI’s, 16th – 18th Wiring Edition, Start/Stop Level Instrumentation, 40/10MA Loops, Mitsubishi PLC’s and QR series.

Day to day duties may include but not be limited to:

• Viewing live and historical data associated with client assets
• Configuration
• Uploading and downloading software
• Modifying sequences
• Testing communications
• Connecting instrumentation
• Updating firmware
• Uploading saved configurations and isographs to client database.
• Fault-finding and troubleshooting followed by relevant repair and maintenance
• Participate in a call out rota with other framework team members covering 365 days per year 24 hours per day.

Requirements

To excel in this role, you will be a qualified electrician, with experience of Instrumentation, PLC/HMI and SCADA systems, including calibration and testing.

• Full U.K Driving License
• Previous experience as an Electrician responsible for multiple field based projects.
• City & Guilds (or equivalent) Electrical Engineering
• City & Guilds 2391-10 “Level 3 Certificate in the Certification of Electrical

Installations

• C&G 2382-10 “Certificate in the Requirements for Electrical
• Installations, 17th Edition BS7671”
• Mechanical and hydraulic system familiarisation is desirable.
• It would advantageous for candidates to have gained experienced in multi-disciplinary Electrical and Mechanical projects.
• Full U.K Driving License

In return

• Hourly rate negotiable depending on experience
• Transport provided
• Uplifts for ‘on call’ rota and overtime
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Company contributory Pension scheme
• Life Insurance
• Medicash Health Cash Plan & Rewards
• Support and employee infrastructure embedded in the business as a platform for personal and professional development creating pathways for unrivalled career development and progression opportunities internally.
• Consistent learning opportunities
• A safe place to work
• Employee forum’s that provide a platform for having your voice heard

Why AmcoGiffen?

You will be joining a reputable and firmly established, engineering contractor operating nationally in rail, civils and engineering markets. AmcoGiffen are renowned in the market as a specialist civil, building, mechanical and electrical renewals and maintenance business with ongoing and successful projects and frameworks across the country, you will become part of our expert outfit. AmcoGiffen has a wealth of experience working on sensitive, live assets in highly regulated environments, we deliver exceptional peace of mind for our customers, creating and maintaining assets across a growing range of high-quality public and private sectors. These include rail, power generation, electricity distribution, flood defence, aviation, waterways and much more.

Diversity & Inclusion at AmcoGiffen

We value collective expertise, but also the spark that one person can bring. As one of us, you can be you, because your individuality is an asset to our business and the communities in which we work and represent.

We are working hard as part of the civil engineering and construction industry, to improve diversity & inclusion. Our Diversity and inclusion journey at AmcoGiffen, is constantly evolving and is designed to break down barriers and promote the principles of a diverse workforce through multiple channels. This includes delivering training, raising awareness, regular forums and sharing our engagement calendar of activities and events to encourage participation at all levels throughout our organisation.

Diversity & Inclusion is embodied throughout our SPIRIT core Business values and lies at the heart of our culture of Safety, Professionalism, Innovation, Respect, Integrity and Teamwork.

AmcoGiffen is an Equal Opportunities Employer, offering challenging, worthwhile careers to everyone and is pro-actively committed to improving our understanding year on year to foster a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees as well as for the customers and communities in which we serve and operate within. It doesn’t matter to us what your age, disability, employment status, gender, health, marital status, sexual preference, membership or non-membership of a trade union, nationality, race, religion or social class are, or indeed any other personal characteristics not directly related to the relevant job. Anyone who meets the requirements of the job is eligible for employment with AmcoGiffen.

Health & Wellbeing

Operating from a people first perspective we support safety and wellbeing in the workplace as a priority. We have large number of colleagues that are trained and qualified mental health first aiders to support and listen where appropriate. We enrol all of the AmcoGiffen family onto an employee assistance programme which provides 24 hour, 7 days a week counselling and advice services.