Electrical Technician

Basildon, Essex

Full time, permanent

Mon – Friday Days

Some international travel – Uplift in pay when abroad

Our Essex based client is a specialist machinery manufacturer employing approximately 70 staff at their purpose built design, engineering and office building near Basildon.

The basic equipment is made abroad and is then shipped over for final assembly, adding controls and ancillary equipment before being tested and shipped to the customer

All panel building, wiring and PLC programming is done on site and various other departments specialise in pneumatics, mechanical systems, machining, machine assembly, commissioning and documentation.

We are looking to appoint an Installation Electrician to work alongside our existing Installation Electricians to install the electrical controls for bespoke Aerosol filling machines at our factory premises with possible site installations.

A certain amount of travel is required to support our worldwide customer base. There is an uplift in pay as well overtime when working away.

Personal Attributes

• Systematic approach to their work with attention to detail
• Flexibility and curiosity with willingness to learn and apply themselves to areas with which they are not familiar
• Desire to improve and develop their area of work
• Able to collaborate effectively with people across departments and shop floor staff
• Has worked in a project environment in cross functional project teams

Essential Experience & Knowledge

• Familiarity with control and machine components
• Knowledge and understanding of various hand tools
• Able to work with several types of cable management, tray, basket, trunking, conduit, and the skills to prepare and install cable management system
• Knowledge cable types required for a project and install accordingly, YY, CY, cable diameters, single core, or multicore which are based on different control and power supplies, 400V AC, 215V AC, 24V DC
• Termination of electrical power and control cables in field mounted and panel mounted devices
• Understand electrical wiring diagrams for component identification, cable terminations and differentiation from a panel device to a field mounted device, contactors, relays, and motors
• Low voltage controls and medium voltage controls and equipment
• Familiar with Industrial electrical installations
• Familiarity with automated production machinery or other similar capital equipment
• Formal Electrical Engineering qualification (e.g., apprenticeship) Electrical Technician

Additional Responsibilities

• Assist, where required, with other tasks within the Automation Department, such as physical wiring inspections, installation checks, machine testing
• Factory maintenance