Production Technician

Portsmouth | Permanent | £40,276/year | www.cv-library.co.uk |
Our client who provides high quality public water supplies to a domestic population are looking for a Production Technician who can ensure water treatment works are maintained, enabling the effective production of safe drinking water.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure compliance with planned maintenance schedules.
Maintain, diagnose, repair, modify, configure, commission low voltage switchgear, motor drives, valves, gas dosing equipment, pneumatic plant, pumps and motors.
Visiting water treatment works, pumping stations, reservoirs, monitoring asset performance and operability of the water treatment works across sites and to carry out essential duties.
Collect asset performance data, recording routine activities and work completed.
Demonstrate an ability to read, understand and work from electrical drawings.
Respond to breakdowns on a range of M&E plant, assess problems, decide on action, acquire spares and carry out repairs as necessary.
Ensure that equipment is maintained and calibrated to the manufacturers specifications and is auditable.
Supervise team members and assist with their development and learning.

Qualifications/knowledge required

ONC / Level 3 In electrical or mechanical engineering and a recognised apprenticeship in a relevant field within water utility or similar industry or equivalent experience as specified below.
Relevant experience in a process and industrial environment.
Experience implementing process improvements via control system modifications and experience in diagnosing and fixing complex process and control system faults.
Knowledge of Chemical Handling.
Knowledge of basic hydraulic principles.
Proficient with working from electrical drawings.
Full UK driving licence (Will be required to undertake our driver assessment).

Skills, Behaviours and Competencies

Adaptable with good attention to detail and effective analytical skills.
Accountable for own actions with a willingness to collaborate with others, whilst developing and sharing knowledge, ideas and best practice with others.
Empathetic, Self-Aware and Comfortable with constructively challenging areas that could be improved.
Systems based skills, open to learning new technology.
Passionate about providing an excellent service, to our customer, colleagues and across teams within Portsmouth Water.
Be flexible in your work to maintain operational requirements and to ensure positive outcomes are achieved at all times.
Must understand the parameters within which instruments and control systems operate and the consequences of variance outside of those parameters.
Good verbal communications skills, self – motivated with the ability to react quickly and work calmly under pressure.
In depth knowledge of fault finding, calibration, testing, investigation and in technical aspects such as flow meters, process instrumentation and other measurement devices are required.

Benefits:

Company pension
Free parking
on-site parking

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

Yearly bonus
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