1932
Lead Maintenance Electrician
Dublin, Ireland
Engineering
Permanent
1932
Posted on:
August 18, 2025
The Highlights:
The Role:
Elusav Recruitment have an amazing opportunity for a Lead Maintenance Electrician with a leading water and wastewater solutions provider in Dublin.
As the Lead Maintenance Electrician you'll be responsible for leading, managing, directing and motivating a team of highly skilled electricians in a highly automated industrial processing environment.
Job Responsibilities:
- To execute maintenance activities on electrical equipment including instrumentation, PLC’s, Variable Speed Drives ensuring safe, reliable plant.
- Making sure maintenance tasks are completed in accordance with site policies and procedures.
- Ensure effective completion and ongoing review of planned equipment maintenance routines on PEMAC maintenance management system.
- Assign maintenance activities to team members on PEMAC maintenance management system.
- Ensure all executed maintenance activities are recorded by the maintenance team on the PEMAC maintenance management system.
- Communicate with maintenance planner on PMs, near misses to be closed, back log of jobs.
- Maintain a good record of O&M manuals on the server and update where required.
- Minimize downtime on equipment, through fast response, effective root cause analysis and good problem solving techniques.
- Train maintenance electricians on electrical equipment and instrumentation, improve team’s systematic fault finding skills.
- Effective analysis and elimination of recurring equipment problems.
- Monitor, record the use and the ordering of spare parts.
- Provide out of hours support to plant operations during plant start-up, running and shutdown activities.
- Manage a team of maintenance electricians, electrical apprentices and contractor electricians.
- Be active in Identification, quantification, implementation and presentation of equipment continuous improvement projects including contractor document evaluation and management.
- Ensure seamless communication between the electrical and fitter teams.
- Participate in on-call electrician roster.
Job Requirements:
- Time served Electrician with QQI Level 6 Advanced Certificate Craft - Electrical or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of switchgear, MCC controls, relay logic and various AC and DC voltage systems.
- High-level diagnostic and problem-solving skills in an industrial environment.
- Knowledge of mechanical and electrical process plant and associated maintenance activities with the wastewater industry.
- 5+ years’ experience in an industrial environment.
- Demonstrate detailed understanding of H&S statutory requirements, responsibilities and obligations.
- Good knowledge of Alan Bradley PLC’s, Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet & Profibus communications protocols is desirable.
- Good knowledge of ABB Variable Speed Drives is desirable.
- Good knowledge and understanding of ATEX zoned areas is desirable.
- CompEx certification desirable.
- Medium voltage switching experience and qualification desirable.
If you would like to learn more about the vacancy, apply now, or contact Stephen O'Brien on stephen@elusav.com or +353 69 59993.
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