Job Title – Senior Lead Maintenance Electrician
About the Company
From design and engineering to construction, through to site operation and management, the company has a proven track record in the provision of Lean water and wastewater solutions that increase efficiency, reduce carbon footprint and minimize operational cost for their customers.
About the Position
I am currently recruiting for the a Senior Lead Maintenance Electrician in Dublin. This site is the largest municipal wastewater treatment plant in Ireland and one of the largest in Europe treating for a population equivalent of 2.4 million people.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, direct and motivate a team of highly skilled electricians in a highly automated industrial processing environment.

• Execute maintenance activities on electrical equipment including instrumentation, PLC’s, Variable Speed Drives ensuring safe, reliable plant.

• Making sure maintenance tasks are completed.

• Assign maintenance activities to team members on PEMAC (software) maintenance management system.

• Train maintenance electricians on electrical equipment and instrumentation, improve team’s systematic fault finding skills

• Effective analysis and elimination of recurring equipment problems.

• Manage a team of maintenance electricians, electrical apprentices and contractor electricians

• Be active in Identification, quantification, implementation and presentation of equipment continuous improvement projects including contractor document evaluation and management

• Maintain communication between the electrical and fitter teams

• Participate in on-call electrician roster

• Demonstrate the ability to manage and motivate staff.
• Electrician with QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate Craft - Electrical or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of switchgear, MCC controls, relay logic and various AC and DC voltage systems.
• High-level diagnostic and problem-solving skills in an industrial environment.
• Knowledge of mechanical and electrical process plant and associated maintenance activities.
• 5 years’ experience in an industrial environment.
• Demonstrate detailed understanding of H&S statutory requirements, responsibilities and obligations.

• Knowledge of Alan Bradley PLC’s, Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet & Profibus communications protocols.
• Good knowledge of ABB Variable Speed Drives.
• Good knowledge and understanding of ATEX zoned areas.
• CompEx certification.
• Medium voltage switching experience and qualification.
• Familiar with SCADA process control systems for process and fault diagnosis.

• 23 days annual leave plus all the Bank Holidays including Good Friday

• Access to our defined contribution pension scheme upon successful completion of a 6 month probationary period.  Members can choose to contribute either 5% or 7.5% of their base salary, which the company will also match. The pension scheme has benefits which provide death in service and serious illness income protection cover.

• Performance bonus of up to 5% of salary

• 2 paid GP visits per annum

• We encourage our team members to personally develop and will fund any further studies related to their role

On call daily rate for Electricians and Fitters of €20 per day whilst on call in addition to the following overtime rates:
Standard Rate € 33.41/h
After 12 midnight: € 44.56/h
Sundays and bank holidays: € 44.56/h

Contact
For more information on this position or other engineering roles, please contact Sam Hennebry on 01-5927842 or hit the apply button below to send your CV. Alternatively, contact him directly via email; [email protected]
 
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