Job Title:
Lead Maintenance Electrician
Key Responsibilities:
Execute maintenance activities on electrical equipment, including instrumentation, PLCs and Variable Speed Drives. Ensure effective completion and ongoing review of planned equipment maintenance routines on the maintenance management system.
Regular communication with the maintenance planner on PMs, near misses to be closed and backlog of jobs. Focus on minimizing downtime of equipment.
Involved in training maintenance electricians on electrical equipment and instrumentation, improving team systematic fault-finding skills.
Monitor, record the use and ordering of spare parts. Provide out of hours support to plant operations during plant start-up, running and shutdown activities.
Manage a team of maintenance electricians, electrical apprentices and contractor electricians. Active involvement in Equipment Continuous Improvement projects.
Requirements:
Time served electrician with QQI Level 6 or equivalent qualification. Demonstratable experience managing a team of electrical staff in an industrial environment.
Knowledge of switchgear, MCC controls, relay logic and various AC and DC voltage systems. Knowledge of the electrical and mechanical process in a plant-based/industry setting.