DCS Engineer

Aylesbury | Competitive Salary plus Benefits

Employer: FCC Environment
Sector/Specialism: Environmental

Main purpose and scope of job
Provision of timely and professional day to day scheduled maintenance, fault finding and breakdown activities to the E/C&I systems on site, in order to maximize plant performance and availability, while maintaining high standards of Safety and Environmental performance.

Duties and key responsibilities - Operational
1. Health, Safety & Environment
• Implementing the companies’ health, safety and environmental management policies.
• Carrying out responsibilities as defined in the companies Safety Rules and associated procedures.
• Participate in company/site HSE initiatives including the HSE forum activities.
• Implementing the company’s health, safety and environmental management policies and actively participate in company/site HSE initiatives including the HSE forum activities, including site procedure reviews on a periodic basis.
• Assist in the coordination and planning of daily maintenance activities with the Maintenance Team Leader to ensure maximum plant reliability and flexibility is achieved to high standards of quality, safety and environmental performance.
• Carrying out responsibilities as defined in the companies Safety rules and associated procedures.
2. Team working
• All ECI equipment maintenance activities, integrating into a team of highly skilled technicians that also manage contract support organisations as required in accordance with the Health & Safety, Quality & Environmental Management procedures for the plant.
• Participating in department training, development and staff appraisals.
• Responsible for assisting the Maintenance Team Leader with all aspects associated with electrical/control equipment repairs and keeping detailed history records. Utilising the business computerised maintenance management system.
• Responsible for providing technical support to Operations.
• To be on call and to change working patterns where necessary in order to meet the needs of the business.
• Building and maintaining a culture of team work where team members progress towards Operational and Maintenance dual-skilling and want to contribute to their full potential.
3. Key Activities
• Perform troubleshooting, routine, preventative, scheduled and major repair maintenance on all power plant IT and Digital control systems. Including testing and calibration of EC&I systems and field equipment in accordance with OEM requirements and prudent industry practice.
• Preventative maintenance/defect repair/ interrogation on: DCS and PLCs,. Including system backups and restoration
• Full understanding of P&IDs and Loop Checking and ability to read Electrical Drawings.
• Interogation of DCS to assiat operations in understanding of plant operations
• Assist project work with implementation of new logic onto DCS stsr
• Co-ordination and management of contract support organisations.
• Participating in department training, development and staff appraisals.
• Deputise for EC&I team leader during holiday and sickness periods
• Analyse all plant excursions and produce trip reports identifying route cause.
• Responsible for assisting the Maintenance Team Leader with all aspects associated with EC&I equipment repairs and keeping detailed history records. utilising the business computerised maintenance management system.
• Responsible for providing technical support to Operations.
• Responsible for carrying out all equipment spares assessment, ordering and control to ensure high availability of the plants equipment.
• Implementing the companies’ health, safety and environmental management policies.
• Carrying out responsibilities as defined in the companies Safety Rules and associated procedures.
• Participate in company/site HSE initiatives including the HSE forum activities.
• Assisting with the development of, and work within, the EC&I section budget constraints.
• Participation in projects and initiatives as delegated by the Maintenance Team Leader.
• Implementing the company’s health, safety and environmental management policies and actively participate in company/site HSE initiatives including the HSE forum activities, including procedure reviews on a periodic basis.
• Identifying and taking proactive measures to improve plant operational shortfalls and augment engineering solutions.
• Assist in the co-ordination and planning of daily maintenance activities with the Maintenance Team Leader, Plant/Safety Controller to ensure maximum plant reliability & flexibility is achieved to high standards of quality, safety and environmental performance.
• Supervise and develop the Contract Support Organisations to deliver scheduled, preventative, breakdown, planned maintenance and operational activities.
• Maintenance and servicing, repairing and history recording of all EC&I plant equipment.
• Quality control of designated work associated within the maintenance department.
• Ensure strict compliance with software and plant modification procedures and directives.
• Assist in outage planning, scheduling and co-ordination.
• Supporting other UK business if the need arises.
• To be on call and to change working patterns where necessary in order to meet the needs of the business.
• Stand in for the Maintenance Team Leader in their absence.
• Work towards multi-skilling activities associated with Electrical C&I and Mechanical duties, including assisting operations staff as required. Relevant training will be provided.
• Building and maintaining a culture of team work where team members progress towards Operational and Maintenance dual-skilling and want to contribute to their full potential.

Experience
• ONC/City and Guilds/NVQ Level 3 in an Electrical or Instrumentation Engineering discipline with a high level of practical Operational/Maintenance experience/knowledge (Qualifications below this may be acceptable if accompanied by suitable experience).
• A good understanding of all HSE aspects is a fundamental requirement, IOSH managing safely is preferable.
• Knowledge of power generation operations and maintenance associated with Steam turbines, boilers, balance of plant, electrical generation and distribution up to 33kV, plant control and instrumentation and computer aided Maintenance Management applications.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Familiar with a number of computer applications.
• Good interpersonal skills, self motivated, flexible and committed attitude.
• Communication and motivational skills.
• At least 3 years in power generation industry operations and maintenance. Exposure to heavy process plant maintenance activity.

Essential Knowledge
• Detailed knowledge of DCS system
• Detailed knowledge of PLC’s and Ladder logic
• Knowledge of control systems
• Full understanding of P&IDs, loop checking and electrical drawings.
• Willingness to work towards multi-skilling.
• Computer literate.
• Knowledge and understanding of electrical distribution systems, and their protection switching

Personal attributes and other requirements
• The individual will need to be a self-motivated individual with exceptional organisational and interpersonal skills. The individual must be suited to a culture which is entrepreneurial, fast paces, value-drive, and with very high corporate performance and ethical standards. The individual will need to be very comfortable working in a lean structure, should be highly customer focused, possess strong ethical and moral standards and be willing to assume significant personal accountability.
• The ability to work unsupervised and take responsibility during dynamic situations
• Complete/Finisher able to deliver results on schedule.
• Potential for promotion, within the Company, to Maintenance Engineer or other position.
• Affable and flexible personality.
• Excellent work ethic.
• Detail oriented.
Any other reasonable request.