Operational Technician

Job Description

Join our Grid Access Maintenance and Warranty team as an Operational Technician, where you will play a vital role in supporting projects and customer sites across the UK, both onshore and offshore. As part of our Transmission Service Business, you will contribute to maintaining high voltage substations, HVDC interconnectors, and wind farm grid connections, ensuring the reliability and availability of energy supply for our esteemed clients.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Ensure compliance with work specifications, local management instructions, statutory requirements, and health & safety regulations.
• Plan, develop, and execute maintenance and warranty works for all plant and equipment within the contract scope.
• Carry out maintenance and repairs on substations and power stations across the country
• Install new equipment and follow a rigid testing process to ensure quality
• Ensure compliance with Work Specifications, Local Management Instructions, statutory Requirements and Health & Safety regulations.
• Prepare suitable risk and method statements before work commences.
• Investigate and rectify faults, preparing reports to meet QA and customer requirements.
• Interpret test and inspection reports and initiate appropriate actions.
• Complete and upload all maintenance documentation on the Maintenance Management System as per procedures.
• Ensure all work meets satisfactory quality and technical standards.
• Participate in training to enhance your skills as necessary.

What You Bring

• Knowledge of HV apparatus with experience in maintenance, craftsman or fault rectification activities on HV and LV apparatus in a service environment.
• Highly Favourable: HV substation, AIS, GIS switchgear or transformer experience
• Good understanding of HV safety rules.
• Working knowledge of quality and asset management systems.
• Excellent IT skills, proficient with Microsoft 365 products.
• Organised, practical, and logical approach to work.
• Effective communication skills, both written and oral, at all organisational levels, with the ability to engage with customers and suppliers.
• Flexibility to travel between various sites across the UK and Ireland working in both onshore and offshore environments as required.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally at all levels within the organisation, as well as engage with customers and suppliers where needed.
• Flexibility to travel between various sites across the UK and Ireland.
• Clean Drivers licence
• Fluent in written and spoken English

About the Team

Our Grid Access O&M team is responsible for ensuring the safe, reliable, and continuous operation of electrical substation systems and associated infrastructure. The team carries out planned maintenance, responds to equipment failures, and ensures compliance with safety regulations while minimising disruption to operations. This includes Preventive Maintenance, Corrective Maintenance, Operational Support, Safety Management, Inspection and Testing, Emergency Response and Asset Management. This is all covered by warranty support, maintenance support contracts and aftersales support.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character, no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• 26 days holiday, increasing to 29 days with time served
• Access to a flexible benefits portal for private medical cover, cycle-to-work schemes, and more
• A class-leading adjustable pension scheme
• Opportunities for career development and continuous learning
• The chance to work on cutting-edge projects that shape the future of Siemens Energy and manufacturing