Industrial Electrician

Key responsibilities

The electrician keeps plant power and motor systems running safely and to drawing, with minimum downtime.

Installation

• Install and terminate LV/MV power, control and instrumentation cables, including glanding, lugging and cable tray, ladder and conduit work
• Install and wire DBs, MCCs, PCCs, control panels, motors, lighting and small power, earthing and lightning protection
• Read and work to single-line diagrams, schematics, cable schedules and layout drawings

Panel labelling, wire tagging and ferrule printing

• Label panels, DBs, MCC feeders, breakers and field devices with engraved or printed tags as per the drawing and site numbering scheme
• Tag every wire and cable core at both ends with ferrules matching the schematic / wiring diagram numbers
• Print ferrules, heat-shrink sleeves and cable markers on a ferrule printer (e.g. Max LM-series, Brady, Partex) and keep spares organised
• Fix cable identification tags at glands, trays and junction boxes as per the cable schedule
• Check tagging against drawings during QA/QC inspection and update tags and as-builts after any modification

Maintenance and troubleshooting

• Carry out preventive and breakdown maintenance on motors, starters (DOL, star-delta), VFDs/soft starters, transformers, switchgear and UPS
• Fault-find on power and control circuits, relays, contactors, interlocks and basic PLC I/O
• Support plant shutdowns and turnarounds

Testing and Commissioning

• Perform insulation resistance (megger), continuity, earth resistance and loop tests and record results
• Assist engineers with pre-commissioning, energisation and motor solo/coupled runs

Safety and Reporting

• Follow permit-to-work and lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures and site HSE rules at all times
• Keep tools and test instruments calibrated and in good order
• Complete daily job reports, test sheets and as-built mark-ups