Responsibilities
To work as part of a multi-discipline team that operates and maintains the BYK Widnes facility. Working as part of the shift team the successful candidate will be responsible for providing Electrical and Instrumentation support for the production department. The role is part of a shift team working on a 4 on 6 off and 4 on 4 off x 12-hour shift pattern.
We invite you to get to know us better and to discover your own personal special side of life. Please send us your application, preferably via our job market www.altana.jobs. For further information, please contact:
Maria Dean HR Manager, BYK Additives Ltd. Tel +44 (0) 151 495 9982.
For further information on the company, visit our website at
Requirements
Key responsibilities Include (but not limited to):
1. To undertake planned maintenance and overhaul of plant equipment and site facilities.
2. Tasks will primarily be based around a daily schedule. The role requires the ability to self-organise
3. The role requires continuous communication of task progress, active thought and action if problem faced, willingness to work on own initiative, seek assistance internally and externally if required, falling back onto other tasks without direction if delays faced etc.
4. To undertake reactive repair of plant equipment and site facilities.
5. To install new equipment and modifications to existing items.
6. To carry out E&I testing, inspection, calibration and reporting of plant condition
7. To operate within site maintenance team, communicating with other staff of relevant groups to determine task needs, priorities and time frames.
8. To use CMMS to record task history, and to brief other maintenance staff for job continuity.
9. To be proactive in maintaining and developing knowledge and skill to meet needs of the position.
Required Qualifications, Experience and Attributes
The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:
Qualifications
10. HNC in related subject
11. NVQ level 3 Electrical/Instrumentation
12. 18th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations
Desirable Experience and Attributes
13. Competence in achieving objectives in a similar industry
14. PLC’s - Siemens S7 PLC (step7/ TIA portal)
15. Motor Control & Inverter Drives
16. Industrial communications: Profinet, Profibus
17. Instrumentation – Level, Flow, Pressure, Temperature, pH
18. Fault Finding & Planned Maintenance
19. CMMS (Avantis/SAP)
20. Excellent communication skills
21. Sound computer literacy skills
Our Plus
In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction. BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages. They include the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, the Participation in site bonus scheme and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement as well as excellent development opportunities.
Job number:
AW00275
Legal entity:
BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)
Location:
Widnes Cheshire
About us
The ALTANA Group develops and manufactures high-quality, innovative specialty chemical products. With us, you can help shape many important details of the world of the future. Our four divisions BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA have set worldwide standards in their markets. Our innovative products enable companies to develop technologies of the future today, technologies that make life easier, safer, and more comfortable. With sales of around 2.7 billion euros, we are one of the world‘s most innovative, fastest-growing, and most profitable chemical companies. We currently employ more than 6,700 people who have good ideas for the world of the future. Discover your decisive plus for your future. Bringing you many advantages.
BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned speciality chemicals company, since 2013.
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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.