Shift Electrical Craft Team Member

Job Title: Shift Electrical Craft Team Member

Department: Energy, Central Engineering and Llanwern Mills (Zodiac)

Location: Llanwern (NP19)

Salary: £30,216 + 30% Shift Allowance (£9,065)

Closing Date: Sunday 22nd September 2024

We believe that our strength is not just in our steel but the diversity of our workforce. Our people make the difference.

What you will do

As an Electrical Craft Team Member, you will perform preventative maintenance and inspection work, providing expertise and resource to identify and rectify faults in complex systems to ensure manufacturing continuity.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring all activity is undertaken within Health, Safety and Environmental requirements and in compliance with company and legislative requirements. The Electrical Craft Team Member will work as part of a team to ensure manufacturing performance on an ongoing basis, support manufacturing development plans and identify opportunities for improvement.

Your key responsibilities, will include:

• Providing engineering expertise & advise in order to diagnose and correct complex faults in the manufacturing process equipment.
• Developing expertise and keeping up to date in maintenance techniques and equipment development applicable to a heavy manufacturing environment by self-study and attendance on appropriate courses.
• Providing comprehensive reports on breakdowns, repairs and related engineering activities where appropriate recommending improvements to equipment or systems.
• Undertaking training as required for new specialists, other engineering grades, and manufacturing teams.
• Supervising Tata Steel or contract personnel and where necessary issue certificates of isolation as part of the safe system of work.
• Being familiar with many specific, modern day electrical systems including PLC’s, Drives, AC & DC motor circuitry and be able to read and interpret electrical wiring and schematic drawings. 

What you will need

Ideally, you’ll be qualified to ONC level or equivalent, which will have normally been obtained through a craft apprenticeship in electrical engineering or hold a Modern Apprenticeship certificate.

The Electrical Craft Team Member will be required to have relevant plant experience in electrical systems and be capable of supervising personnel in the safe execution of engineering repair work.

We require employees to have the ability to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills and be computer literate. The ability to work without close supervision, yet under pressure and to tight timescales is essential.

For a full job description or if you’d like an informal discussion, please contact: Jon.Taylor@tatasteeleurope.com

What we can offer you

Tata Steel UK offers their employees significant benefits packages. For this role, you will benefit from:

• A market competitive salary
• 35 days holidays per annum
• Annual Pay Review
• Bonus Scheme – subject to business performance
• One of the UK’s leading defined contribution pension schemes (10% employer contribution / 6% employee contribution)

We also have an extensive list of lifestyle benefits including free onsite parking at all of our sites, an employee assistance programme as well as Employee discount scheme for companies including Vodafone, Jaguar Land Rover and also various local services.

Why us?

Tata Steel is one of the world’s top 10 steel producers. The combined group has an annual aggregate crude steel capacity of more than 33 million tonnes with approximately 80,000 employees across four continents. We’re part of the Tata Group, one of the largest, most diverse conglomerates in the world with businesses in the UK including Tata Steel, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetley Tea.

Sustainability is at the very heart of what we do and we are dedicated to managing our operations responsibly and to continuously improving our performance. Innovating for tomorrow, making a positive impact today.

Tata Steel in the UK is committed to our ambition of reducing energy consumption and to becoming a carbon neutral steelmaker by 2045, to find out more about our journey click here Stoves cooking less carbon – YouTube

To learn more about who we are and what we can offer our future employees, please click on the link to watch the following video: Tata Steel – A place you can thrive – YouTube