Job Title: Automation Maintenance Technician
PE Global are currently recruiting for Ireland's largest Renewable Energy Business Unit for a permanent position based at Edenderry, Co. Offaly.
About the Role:
* Responsible for generating and maintaining assets within small core teams.
* Expected to achieve challenging targets across key areas such as maintenance, engineering, commercial performance, safety, environmental standards, quality, and personal development.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Ensure maintenance plans and targets for the team are achieved safely, economically, and within the environmental limits of the Generating Plants.
2. Carry out PM/other works and report to the Maintenance Management System, keeping record of all necessary quality documentation.
3. Perform preventative maintenance on control and instrumentation systems for all assets, including calibrations of process instruments, pH measurement, analytical instruments, pressure, flow, level, and temperature, as scheduled by the maintenance management system.
4. Nominated person for local support of IT infrastructure, including office network, data historian development, ongoing single electricity market system maintenance.
5. Implement Integrated Single Electricity Market (I-SEM) software systems enabling trading of generating assets in new markets.
6. Carry out preventative maintenance on stack emission monitoring equipment and ensure the monitoring system is working correctly.
7. Install new instruments as required and modify Distributed Control System or other plant control SCADA systems as needed.
8. Modify PLC controllers as necessary in response to changes to plant & equipment or operating philosophy.
9. Assist with contractors to commission new projects.
10. Contact vendors or control equipment suppliers to assist with problems with plant automation.
Requirements:
* Automation Technicians should possess appropriate technical qualifications (B.Tech or equivalent), including a recognized apprenticeship.
* At least 5 years of experience in the maintenance of heavy process industries or power plants.
* Excellent IT skills, with the ability to think logically and solve problems from first principles.