Lead Maintenance Technician

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Basedin: Wilton International, Teesside

Salary: Negotiable - Whilst all salaries are graded, Sembcorp are keen to attract, retain and develop the highest calibre of colleague. Also, the company offer a market leading benefits package and annual bonus.

About Sembcorp Energy Uk

Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sembcorp Industries, is a leading provider of sustainable solutions supporting the UKs transition to Net Zero. With an energy generation and battery storage portfolio of over 1.3GW in operation or under development, our expertise helps major energy users and suppliers improve their efficiency, profitability, and sustainability, while supporting the growth of renewables and strengthening the UKs electricity system.

Our Wilton International site, within the Teesside Freeport, sits amongst a hub of decarbonisation innovation. At the site, we provide energy-intensive industrial businesses with combined heat and power (CHP) via our private wire network that supplies electricity generated by gas and biomass.

These services are complemented by our fleet of fast-acting, decentralised power stations and battery energy storage sites situated throughout England and Wales. Monitored and controlled from our central operations facility in Solihull, these flexible assets deliver electricity to the national grid, helping to balance the UK energy system and ensure reliable power for homes and businesses.

About Sembcorp Industries

Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp) is a leading energy and urban solutions provider, driven by its purpose to do good and play its part in building a sustainable future.

Headquartered in Singapore, Sembcorp leverages its sector expertise and global track record to deliver innovative solutions that support the energy transition and sustainable development. By focusing on growing its Renewables and Integrated Urban Solutions businesses, it aims to transform its portfolio towards a greener future and be a leading provider of sustainable solutions.

Sembcorp has a balanced energy portfolio of 18.5GW, with 11.0GW of gross renewable energy capacity comprising solar, wind and energy storage globally. The company also has a proven track record of transforming raw land into sustainable urban developments, with a project portfolio spanning over 12,000 hectares across Asia.

Sembcorp is listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange. It is a constituent stock of the Straits Times Index and sustainability indices including the FTSE4Good Index and the iEdge SG ESG indices.

The lead hand on shifts leads 3 other maintenance technicians in identifying and executing fixes for emergent defects, or, in the case of tasks that are outside the capability of shift maintenance, stabilising defects with shift operations and starting preparation for day maintenance or contractors to complete the work. The team will also complete planned maintenance tasks when they are not required to respond to emergent defects.

As the role covers out of hours and weekend working and leads a team, the role holder must be self-motivated and have the ability to undertake their responsibilities with an extremely high level of autonomy. They need to be able to act independently and quickly to effectively deal with reactive issues and planned work to the highest safety and quality standards.

The role reports to a Maintenance Managerbut works day-to-day under the direction of the Shift Manager.

Safety

• Drive a culture of safety first and ensure adherence to safe systems of work at all times.
• Promotes a culture which supports team working across the department and adjacent functions.
• Always work according to an approved method statement and risk assessment and stop work if they have any concerns over safety.
• Create risk assessments and method statements for their specialty.
• Review and approve risk assessments and method statements for the rest of the shift maintenance team prior to sign-off by permit issuer.
• Ensure adherence to Safe Operating Procedures and Sembcorp Management Procedures.
  

Shift maintenance execution

• Support operations with plant problems.
• Lead on the investigation of emergent defects by the shift maintenance team.
• Act as the task owner for all shift maintenance tasks.
• Monitor, advise and take ownership and action for reactive maintenance issues to improve plant availability/reliability.
• Use plant experience and knowledge to take accountability for planned and reactive maintenance activities.
• Able to quickly and effectively source technical information to develop fixes for reactive maintenance issues.
• Advanced user of the computerised maintenance management system.
• Identify and source the required spare parts from both internal stores and external vendors to complete repairs.
• Raise purchase requisitions for external services/parts/materials as required in line with SEUK purchasing policies and procedures.
• Provide technical advice to shift operations teams as needed.
• Reporting of maintenance KPIs
• Supervise specialist site contractors Accountable for their shift maintenance team: educating, expanding knowledge, and behaviour.
• Provide support to maintenance shift team members in execution of reactive maintenance tasks on shifts.
  

Other

• Provide technical point of contact for specialist support contractors on shifts as required.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability regarding the upkeep of the maintenance workshops, Plant and storage areas adhering to the 5S methodology.
  

Generating and implementing continuous improvement ideas.

Requirements

• NVQ level 3 or equivalent (Trade Specific)
• IOSH Managing Safely
• HNC (Desirable)
• ILM Level 3 in First Line Management
  

For more information please get in touch Adam Gallagher at Imperial Professionals