Electrical and Energy Projects Engineer

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Join us at Wavin:
Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a UK Electrical and Energy Projects Engineer to join us at Doncaster
. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Site Operations Manager, the UK Electrical and Energy Projects Engineer will provide electrical engineering support to all UK and Ireland sites, ensuring business continuity and health and safety and legal compliance.

The role will also support energy management and energy reduction projects.

• Ensure full electrical compliance across all sites.
• Function as the single point of contact for the management, maintenance, and support of High Voltage and Low Voltage infrastructure across all sites.
• Lead electrical, automation and sustainability projects to improve efficiency and safety across all sites, providing detailed and accurate technical support, including troubleshooting.
• Support site infrastructure, maintenance and development plans.
• Monitor electrical energy consumption across all sites and identify opportunities for improvement through technology, process, and behavioural change.
• Operate as a sustainability champion, sharing and implementing energy saving best practices across all sites.
• Ensure all supplier and maintenance contracts operate in accordance with best practice and provide maximum cost efficiency.

The successful candidate will have experience within electrical engineering and project management, ideally within a plastics or clayware manufacturing environment. An excellent communicator across all mediums with strong stakeholder management skills developed through multi-site operations experience and simultaneous project management.

We are keen to welcome an accountable and reliable team player who possesses an ability to operate with autonomy and flexibility due to the demand for frequent travel between the UK and Ireland. A strong knowledge of the Electricity at Work Act 1989 is essential in addition to experience ensuring electrical compliance and assuming ultimate technical responsibility. The postholder will also have experience in functioning as a single point of contact for the management and maintenance of High Voltage and Low Voltage infrastructure within a manufacturing setting and ideally have a passion to lead electrical, automation and sustainability projects, providing accurate and detailed reporting.

A high degree of computer literacy is required for the role and the postholder must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Experience with AutoCAD and MS Project is also desirable, but not essential.