Duration: Permanent

Location: Dublin West

Working Hours:  Shift role

This position will be based on a biopharmaceutical site on behalf of our client, a multinational and multicultural company which provides great career progression opportunities to the right person.

The Electrical Shift Technician is responsible to ensure that all utilities equipment in their charge for the duration of the shift is available at all times

Duties of the Role include:

• Maintenance and trouble-shooting of all client electrical systems.
• Responsible for the delivery of the Shift Expectations document.
• Assist in the update of Utilities Standard Operating Procedures and ensure Training is carried out with Operations Teams.
• Supervision of vendors and sub-contractors on site.
• Ensure that all work permits are signed as area owner by the relevant shift members.
• Be fully aware of the terms of the site IPPC (Integrated Pollution Prevention Control) licence and ensure that all actions/operations on site are within the terms.
• All work on site to be carried out in accordance with site EHS (Environmental Health and Safety) rules and guidelines.
• Professional and courteous interaction with client.
• Completion of all related documentation in compliance with site and regulatory rules and guidelines.
• Delivery of delegated engineering tasks in compliance with good engineering practice and all regulatory, statutory and corporate requirements.
• Keep training current in line with client’s requirements, i.e. SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures), EWI’s (Engineering Work Instructions), etc.
• Ensures that all utilities equipment in his charge for the duration of shift is available at all times. Any equipment deviations are reported in the first instance as per the site escalation process.
• To Liaise and Work with the team on all Utilities Equipment.
• Carryout Investigations on Utilities Equipment, identify problem areas and assist in improvement procedures.
• Liaise closely with the site MV Controller.
• Ensure that the minimum shift numbers are maintained at all times.
• Ensures all issues over the shift are communicated to the next shift on shift change-over in a smooth and efficient manner.
• To Assist Maintenance Departments with Planned and unplanned Shutdowns.
• Update stores spare lists as appropriate.
• Any other activities as directed by the Contract Manager or Shift Supervisor.
• Manage the execution of the utilities maintenance program and organisation structure in order to achieve and sustain optimum reliability, maintainability, useful life, and life cycle cost for utilities assets.
• Implement and participate in utilities reliability programs as per the Global Reliability Program (GRP).
• Drive local reviews of maintenance performance data using published maintenance excellence KPI results, areas that will be reviewed and improvements sought:

- Spares cost

- High levels of paperwork

- PM:CM ratio

- Maintenance man-hours per equipment/system

- MTBF

- MTTR

- Equipment reliability trends

• PM program content is to be reviewed on regular basis to remove non-value-added activities and duplication.
• Develop long term (5 year) life cycle costing for asset replacement plans (equipment moving towards end of life).
• Ensure that the CMMS system contains the most up to date information regarding equipment data, spares and maintenance man-hours.
• Maximise maintenance wrench time utilisation through effective planning.

Required skills for this role:

• Electrical, 2 years minimum, good understanding of the basic fundamentals of the various utilities systems.
• Pumps, HVAC Systems, Compressors, Boilers, steam systems and ancillary services, (DHW skids), Chillers, Cooling Towers, Clean steam Boilers, Purified Water Systems, CIP systems, Low /Medium voltage Electrical Systems.
• Building Management Systems (BMC/QBMS/MCS/ECS/EMS).
• Good understanding of Preventive Maintenance Systems.
• PLC’s.
• Work within a Computerized Maintenance Management Work Order system environment.
• Experience with Facility Start Up.
• Work within a documented Permit to Work System.
• Computer literate.
• Ability to read and understand P&ID’s.
• Understanding of SOP’s and GMP Engineering systems.
• Understanding of Basic Instrumentation.
• Troubleshooting / repair of Electrical systems.
• Senior Trades, City & Guilds or equivalent in Mechanical engineering.
• Good problem solving and trouble shooting ability.