Electrical Shift Technician

Position Overview

What awaits you:The primary role is to improve and maintain plant availability of the manufacturing areas. However in order to meet the production needs it is also required to tackle break downs and get the plant running as quickly as possible. 

Responsible for attending to breakdowns throughout the shift, and ensuring plant is down for the least time possible.

Responsible to ensuring all PMs allocated are done and followed up with any feedback to the engineering planner.

Responsible for ensuring the correct escalation process is followed in the event of an out of hours problem occurring.

Responsible for following up problems and developing solutions in cooperation with the Lead Engineer.

Responsible for the safe work of themselves and others whilst work is undertaken, and to ensure equipment is made safe for use.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

How you convince us:We are looking for an Electrical/Instrument maintenance technician to enhance our existing shifts. Working as a key team member all candidates must have 5 years maintenance experience and be qualified to a minimum of ONC (preferably HNC) in Electrical / Control Engineering discipline. Additionally all candidates must be fully conversant with all aspects of 3 phase and single phase motor controls, inverter speed controls and have good fault finding attributes. A working knowledge of PLC’s is essential, with instrumentation experience of process flow, pressure and temperature measurements an advantage. Working knowledge of gas burner control systems, safety devices, burner ignition sequence and burner set up would be an additional advantage.

Location Profile

The Novelis Latchford plant a suburb of Warrington Cheshire in England employs approximately 200 employees. It is one of Europe’s largest aluminium used beverage cans recycling plants and Europe’s largest closed-loop recycling operation for automotive aluminium rolled products with an annual recycling capacity of up to 195000 tonnes. The plant is an essential part of Novelis’ European production and collaborated with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to create the first closed-loop system in Europe with a dedicated railway service to efficiently deliver aluminium between Novelis and JLR’s production site in the UK. The Latchford plant is committed to its community in supporting math and science education to local schools as well as sharing the value of safety and works with a local charitable foundation to sponsoring health. In addition Novelis UK supports the program “Every Can Counts” to actively promote can recycling across Europe.