Electrical Technician

We have a fantastic role just in today for anElectrical Technicianto join our client in South Ayrshire on a permanent basis. They are a global leader in there market who combine science and creativity to develop some of the most groundbreaking products in there industry.

We are ideally looking for someone with experience of working in food or pharmaceutical manufacturing industries, or other FMCG environment. Ideally with some experience of automation and industrial controls.

You will be joining a well-established team in a day shift-based role on a site that operates Monday - Friday 6am - 6pm with requirements to cover critical call outs on a rota basis (currently 1 in 4 weeks)

In this role you will cover a wide range of responsibilities ranging from routine electrical testing of the installed equipment, routine planned maintenance tasks on industrial processing equipment and supporting services, dealing with unplanned events on equipment, driving reliability improvements, and building the site in house skills to deal with industrial process control systems such as PLC systems, variable speed motor drives and industrial controls.

You will have many responsibilities, some will include:

• Conducting routine planned maintenance tasks, on production equipment and commercial/industrial installations.
• Responding to machine issues and breakdowns and resolving faults in a safe and timely manner
• Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure using your own initiative.
• Ability to identify issues of quality and safety and respond accordingly.
• Ability to work in a food and pharmaceutical production environment, to a high standard of product care
• High quality record keeping of maintenance tasks.
• Ability to work in a neat and tidy manner.
• Ability to communicate well with other departments and respond to various customer needs to provide a good standard of service to others.
• Ability and desire to learn to build your own skills and our in house capability.
• Ability and desire to become involved in improvement works such as support for capital projects and site energy saving initiatives.

We are looking for you to have the following:

• Electrical maintenance qualifications or equivalent
• A desire and interest in industrial automation and controls
• Ability to plan and manage own tasks against changing production demands
• Ability to understand production priorities and respond to tasks accordingly
• Computer literate on Word, Excel and ideally SAP PM or other CMMS
• Have good fault-finding skills on electrical installations, the ability to install and modify equipment as required, to work to a very high standard of safety and the ability to learn
• Drive a well-funded improvement agenda. You will need to be able to work with diverse teams across engineering, technical, quality and production roles.

To discuss further, please get in touch today for a confidential chat.

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