Junior Commissioning Engineer

About The Role

To carry out on-site commissioning, fault diagnosis, maintenance, inspections, repairs, and modification of BRUSH’s range of Switchgear products.

Key Responsibilities

• Largely working in a ‘shadow role’ the successful candidate will be commissioning, repairing, and conducting maintenance of the BRUSH range of Switchgear products, both on site and in the Brush Blackwood factory.
• The successful candidate will be able to test and commission low complexity new installations of 11kV switchgear.
• The successful candidate will be able to test and commission low complexity modifications to existing 11kV switchgear installations.
• Undergo high voltage pressure testing training and prove skill set competency whilst working in shadow role.
• Undertake fault diagnosis of switchgear and related equipment; test and rectify, as necessary.
• Prepare detailed and concise reports for submission to customers. Attend technical meetings on site and at customers’ premises as and when required.
• Undergo training as required, to ensure that current and future H&S requirements are always met.
• Supervise and train customers’ site personnel.
• Carry out an on-site dynamic risk assessments for assignment and record details thereof.
• Provide written reports on completion of each assignment.
• Accurately record time, attendance and retain VAT receipts for submission with all expense claims.
• All employees have a legal duty to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work and to observe and follow the relevant systems, rules, and methods of working.
• Ensure all data protection activities of personal and special category data; pertaining to current employees, customers, and all other external stakeholders, are done so in line with the company’s data Protection Policy.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience & Skills:

• Experience in dealing with customers effectively.
• Minimum HNC (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering
  
  

Skills / Knowledge:

• Adaptable and effective field based working
• Excellent communication skills
• Drive to continually improve quality.
• Customer focused.
• Enquiring mind, willingness to adopt new approaches.
• Flexible and willing to adapt.
• Numerate
• Ability to plan and prioritise work.
• Able to undertake extensive UK site working, in addition to attending sites both offshore and overseas, often for protracted periods.
• Computer literate with the ability to maintain- accurate records.
• Ability to work with all recognised IT systems including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) and internet/intranet applications.
  
  

Experience:

• Experience in representing the company at customers’ sites and operating remotely on own initiative whilst observing the requirements set down in the company’s code of Conduct for Commissioning Engineers.
• Able to work with company’s rules and guidance notes on health and safety, including operation of safe systems of work in relation to high voltage and medium voltage electrical systems and work in a heavy industrial environment.
  
  

About The Organisation

BRUSH Switchgear provide agile and adaptive engineering solutions and products, including consultancy services, design, and project management as well as award-winning product technology, to a wide range of projects.

A chosen partner for national and regional power generation and distribution network operators, through innovation and a commitment to delivering solutions that address grid-resilience and drive system change, we support the global drive to net-zero, helping create a future-proof Infrastructure.