TRADEBE
Electrical & Instrumentation Technican
Sunderland
Posted 4 days ago
How your CV stacks up
1Upload CV
2Analyse CV
3Improve CV
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
WHAT WILL YOU DO? MAKE AN IMPACT!
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
WHAT’S IN FOR YOU?
Profile
The Electrical & Instrumentation technician will possess a comprehensive range of electrical and instrumentation knowledge with suitable experience for both troubleshooting and installation work. The ideal candidate will possess qualifications in hazardous area working (CompEx) and ideally within the wiring regulations (17th edition). Experience and knowledge gained working within top-tier CoMAH regulations including corresponding environmental, health, and safety legislative requirements are fundamental to this role.
Responsibilities
To be responsible to the Engineering Supervisor for:
- To ensure all duties and assigned activities are carried out in compliance with statutory legal requirements and the companies quality, health & safety, and environmental policies
- Promote a positive health and safety culture by sustaining good housekeeping standards, wearing correct PPE, reporting any observed near misses, and isolating any unsafe situations
- Completion of daily work to suitable standards using CMMS job sheets for routine maintenance, calibration, and testing of the site equipment ensuring correct completion of jobs
- Ensure that appropriate repairs and routine maintenance requirements are identified and undertaken as necessary to maintain plant availability and efficiency
- Responsible for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of all relevant electrical equipment and instrumentation, ensuring all work undertaken to the highest standards and within required timescales
- Ensure that all equipment defects and alarms are reported and that they are appropriately handled ensuring unsafe items are suitably isolated and communicated
- Ensure all waste generated on site is disposed of efficiently in line with current legislation whilst maintaining
- Follow Tradebe permit to work procedures ensuring that all tasks to be performed are covered by a permit, the permit is correctly approved, and that all hazards are understood and isolations are suitably made prior to starting work
- Support the engineering department to flexibly respond to business needs through performing additional tasks including basic mechanical tasks, forklift driving, etc. in accordance with competencies and departmental requirements
- Assist in the detailed planning and preparation of plant maintenance for shutdown periods as required
- Follow change management (MOC) system by ensuring that all actions have been approved and using own assessment ensuring no impact to normal operation or statutory requirements prior to physically making change
- Striving to improve plant operation and control through electrical and instrumentation maintenance support to maximize plant efficiency whilst identifying any potential continuous improvement opportunities to improve control, operation, or maintenance
- Providing basic training or awareness for other engineers or operators in areas which they are expert
- Assist E&I Supervisor in all aspects of his work and deputise as required in his absence
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Role
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- Ensure that all tasks performed are conducted to good Health, Safety, and Environmental practices, paying particular attention to housekeeping, and that all defects or issues are reported
- Housekeeping standards are maintained around the plant in accordance with best practices
- Participate in risk assessments ensuring that assessments in place are suitable, up to date, and include everyday tasks and routines
- Aiming to achieve efficient and maximized operation of control equipment ensuring equipment is used safely as per instructions by suitably monitoring process parameters
- To assist E&I supervisor to ensure that electrical maintenance and construction schedules are managed, incorporating all required routines whilst minimizing plant downtime
- Suitable precautions are used to ensure all electrical work, process break-ins, and isolations are communicated to the permit writer; this must include required cleaning or flushing if required and testing prior to starting work
- A range of experience from various types of single-term controllers to software packages or PLC logic would be an advantage
- Managing the disposal of all Company waste arising’s, where applicable identify new disposal routes, which will be operated within Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulations, and that may offer advantages to the Company. Where such routes are in use, you are, with the assistance of the SHEQ Manager, to ensure that existing regulations and good practice regimes are being followed within these sites
- Ensure suitable standards are used for all installations in terms of legislation, best practice, and company standards. If required, suitable testing and/or calibrations are performed for all equipment/instrumentation prior to handover
- Analyse and interpret data in order to resolve breakdowns and problems around plant
- Report and provide timely feedback on activities, any handover faults, breakdowns, or isolations, near misses, or alarms through the E&I supervisor using appropriate handover reports
- Positively contribute to the engineering and production department performance objectives
- A flexible approach is required when working and availability for work during out-of-hours breakdowns or weekend shutdowns through availability of reasonable amounts of overtime to enable the company to meet its production needs
- To undergo any necessary training to keep abreast of new technologies or health & safety requirements
Trusted by 25,000+ job seekers
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Electrical Knowledge
Instrumentation Knowledge
Troubleshooting
Installation
Hazardous Area Working
Wiring Regulations
Health and Safety
Maintenance
Calibration
Testing
Plant Efficiency
Risk Assessments
Data Analysis
Continuous Improvement
Permit to Work Procedures
Basic Mechanical Tasks