Electrician / Electrical Fitter

Salary: £13.96 per hour

Reporting to: Head of Electrical Engineering

Purpose of the Role

To interpret electrical drawings to be able to assemble electrical parts of special purpose machinery from scratch, maintaining a high level of diligence ensuring machine safety, quality and customer specifications are met.

Key Responsibilities

• Assemble and fit machinery to assembly drawings
• Electrical installation of machinery on customer premises
• Read and interpret electrical engineer assembly drawings to assemble machine parts and machines
• Identification of components from locations on site from a GA drawing
• Operation of hand tools and equipment required to assemble machine parts/machines
• Operation of lifting equipment required to assemble machine parts/machines
• Adheres to customer specific site requirements
• Competent in the electrical installation of machinery in customer premises
• Comply with the Management System requirements for Health and Safety ensuring others work to company and policies and procedures
• Ensure compliance with the management systems requirement for the Environment and Quality by working to company policies and procedures
• Liaise and work in partnership with the Client and Client technical team during the course of the project
• Understand and ensure compliance with customer processes whilst operating on site
• Undertake additional responsibilities and tasks as required
• Support business development activity
• Ensure innovative processes are implemented

Key Skills

• Possess a good understanding of electrical engineering principles
• Competent (and confident) in all technical aspects of electrical engineering (ideally gained within a similar environment)
• Experience of working within a multi –skilled environment (i.e. knowledge of electrical and pneumatic components)
• Experience of working on projects including working to tight timescales throughout the project life cycle
• Working knowledge of Machine Safety
• Ability to read and interpret electrical engineering drawings
• Ability to provide quality information within deadlines
• Empathy with other functions and projects
• Proactive interaction with other functions
• Good communication skills, confident and capable in client facing role
• Team-player and ability to work on own initiative
• Attention to detail
• Willingness to travel

Qualifications

• Minimum HNC qualified in relevant electrical engineering discipline (Desirable)