Electrician

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

• Location: Reading
• 10 day on & 4 days off working pattern
• Regular OT available, including weekends
• Work until the End of March

An Approved Electrician has a range of technical capability across the electrical discipline. You must be able to read schematic and electrical drawings, and be competent at reading and interpreting blueprints/specifications and making detailed sketches for equipment fabrication/installation. Your accurate skills of measuring, fabrication of electrical enclosures, cable selection and termination, and the installation and maintenance of electrical components will be used extensively. Your knowledge of fault investigation and correction, system testing and calibration will have been developed through experience, practice and training in a range of specialist electrical areas.

• As a multi-skilled job, it can command high rewards, especially when working antisocial hours and in challenging locations. Good communication/negotiation skills are also required in order to obtain co-operation from other workers at all levels on-site.
• You would be required to work within Health and Safety regulations in order to maintain the high standards of Health and Safety.
• You should also check out the relevant industry's individual requirements under Health and Safety, i.e. you may well be required to undergo a drugs test which is a requirement of some Industry Health and Safety Regulations.
• As an Approved Electrician, you would install and maintain electrical systems and related control equipment.
• You will also be involved in the selection of electrical systems and components, according to specifications.
• Planning installation or repair to avoid obstructions and to avoid interfering with activities of other workers is an important aspect you will be concerned with in order to keep within contracted deadlines and budgets.
• Onshore electrical work is completed to strict production levels and Quality Assurance procedures.

• Approved Electricians: Electrical Technicians usually go through a mix of apprentice and trade school training. You will need to be qualified to NVQ/City & Guilds/HNC or higher in Maintaining or Installing Electrical Plant and Systems or an equivalent NVQ Level 3 qualification and should hold a JIB card as evidence of competence at craft or advanced craft level.
• You may also have the 17th or 18th Edition qualification and qualifications relating to the installation and maintenance of programmable control systems. (Desirable)
• Must be able to obtain Security Clearance.
• 2391 Testing & Inspecting.

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