Peel Ports
Engineer - Electrical
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Are you excited by the opportunity to build upon your skills and experience working with a range of equipment, including state of the art Ship to Shore Container Cranes? Do you want to work for one of the UK's leading Port Operators, in a role in which you will receive full comprehensive training? We are seeking an experienced Electrician to work at our Greenock site and be part of a team which keeps the world moving! This role will be working a four on four off shift pattern, 12 hour shifts.
Your Role
As an Electrician, you join the Clydeport Engineering Department, based at the Greenock Ocean Terminal, to safely and effectively complete planned and reactive maintenance work, ensuring all electrical equipment is compliant with current standards and legislation, with zero defects to maximise customer satisfaction. You will work towards appointed authorised person for HV and LV systems as per the Peel Ports Electrical Safety Management Systems.
You will use fault finding diagnostic equipment to ensure the reactive maintenance impact is minimised as well as resolving unplanned failures in a timely manner to meet reliability targets, proposing tactical solutions to ensure activities stay on schedule. You will expand your skills to become multi skilled in mechanical and electrical engineering to contribute to the ongoing success of the team. This role will be shift based.
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What you'll bring
You’ll be a time served electrician, with experience of maintaining heavy plant and machinery and be used to working effectively in a critical and busy environment. Alongside this, you will also have:
- Experience using fault finding diagnostic equipment, with strong fault finding skills.
- Willing to work at heights, understand work systems and accident reporting with a commitment to maintaining Health and Safety standards.
- Previous High Voltage and Three Phase experience is desirable.
Whilst predominantly based at Greenock travel to other sites within the cluster to provide cover may be required on occasion.
Who are we?
Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.
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What we can offer you
In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:
- Salary up to £49,955.31
- 26 Days Annual Leave
- Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
- Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
- Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required
If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!
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