Maintenance Technician – Bio Power
West Scotland
This client has one of the largest portfolio of biogas and AD facilities across the UK. They need a Plant Maintenance Technician to support their operations function.
Job Description
To provide first line maintenance to a large scale, renewable energy facility.
This role will ensure downtime is reduced or eliminated and complete preventative maintenance to meet the company KPI’s and budgets.
Responsibilities:
- Engineering Maintenance and Repairs
- Ensure industry leading plant performance by maintaining equipment to a high standard and efficiently carrying out preventative and reactive maintenance tasks.
- Ensure high levels of Health, Safety and Environmental practice with a duty of care to yourself and others.
- Maintain and operate the plant following policy and procedure.
- First Line Maintenance and Repairs
- Carry out repairs and maintenance on process equipment including, pumps, shredders, macerators etc.
- Carry out repairs and maintenance on mechanical sorting equipment.
- Carry out repairs and maintenance on a variety of gas handling equipment including blowers, compressors, upgrading units and filtration systems.
- Carrying out full site PPM’s and managing the inspection regime with a software-based CMMS system
- Carrying out repairs by deploying fabrication and welding equipment.
- Fault Finding, Diagnosis and Reporting
- Perform mechanical, electrical and C&I fault finding on a variety of process equipment using a mixture of conventional techniques, SCADA analysis, PLC fault finding and PID diagrams.
- Write job cards and fault reports to a high standard using Microsoft Office applications.
- Assist the senior engineer with stock management and procurement
- Management of contractors including RAMS review and issue of permit to work.
- Key contributor to the delivery of on-site capital projects
- Assist plant operators with processing as and when required.
- Fault Finding and Diagnosis Using key skills to identify and rectify faults in a timely manner.
- Meeting KPI’s
Requirements
- Time served Technician with a heavy industrial background
- Knowledge and skills within AD and gas generation
- Experience of mechanical and fluid handling equipment and processes
- Experience of gas handing systems and associated regulations
- UK driving license.
- GCSE level, including Math’s and English.
- ANY Engineering qualification
- Apprenticeship or equivalent.
- Microsoft Teams and SharePoint experience/training.
- Fabrication and welding competency
Requirements
- Experience and knowledge of mechanical and electrical repairs and fault finding in a heavy industry
- Anaerobic Digestion experience would be an advantage
- Confident and effective communicator to all grades and levels of colleagues
- Diligent, hands on and professional technician Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint proficient.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and exceptional, respectful team player
