Electrical Control Panel Technician

Basildon, Essex

Full time, permanent

Mon – Friday Days

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 Electrical Design Engineer to work alongside the Automation Technicians to produce the electrical wiring diagrams for our electrical control systems.

Personal Attributes

• Systematic approach to their work with attention to detail
• Flexibility and curiosity with a 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 work effectively with people across departments and shop floor staff

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

• Previous control panel building, wiring and installation experience
• Formal Electrical Engineering Qualification (e.g. apprenticeship)

Desirable

• Familiarity with Automated production machinery or other similar capital equipment
• Worked in a project environment in cross-functional project teams

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the Automation department in building, wiring and installing control panels
• Check required panel components against issued wiring diagram and control panel layouts
• Assemble control panel enclosure: - building plinths, assembling bays and side panels
• Layout chassis plates in line with panel layouts and work with Electrical Design Draughtsman to accomplish best panel layout and design
• Assemble components on to chassis plate and fix accordingly
• Using the issued wiring diagrams wire the control panel working with the Electrical Design Draughtsman and Automation Technician
• Mark up wiring diagrams as panel wiring completed and raising any errors detected with the Electrical Design Draughtsman and Automation Technician
• Cut any apertures within the control panels to accommodate fans, filters power sockets
• Work with the Automation Installation electricians in installing the control panels into the filling line/machines