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Electrical Technician

Reference Number
T&T0276

Electrical Technician

Closing date for applications
26 April 2014
Country
Trinidad & Tobago
City
Port of Spain
Function/Discipline
Operations
Employment Category
This is a permanent role
This role is offered on local conditions
Working Hours
40
Full/Part-Time
Full Time
Number of Roles Available
1
Salary
Competitve salary package offered

The Organisation

Our assets in Trinidad and Tobago are vitally important to BG Group, with gas being supplied to the domestic market and fed into Atlantic LNG for export, primarily to North America. We supply gas to three of four LNG trains at Atlantic LNG in which we are also a shareholder. This represents fully integrated projects involving production and liquefaction, shipping and re-gasification for onward sale into the US market. Our current exploration focus is the phased development of the North Coast Marine Area.

Position Summary

The Electrical Technician is part of maintenance team at the production sites and is responsible for the maintenance and management of all electrical equipment at location.

The jobholder will also ensure that maintenance activities comply with BG Advance standards and BG Trinidad & Tobago policies, procedures and standards.

Key Accountabilities

HSSE
• Engender a culture of continuous HSSE performance improvement.
• Controls all work activities through the BG-Group Safe Systems Of Work (SSOW) with respect to the Permit to Work system.
• Responsible for safe maintenance of all of the facility’s electrical equipment. Act as Performing Authority or Isolating Authority for SSOW and PTW systems (as outlined in BG T&T PTW procedures).
• Actively participates and supports the OIM in leading Behaviour based safety, reporting on unsafe conditions and other safety initiatives pioneered by BG
• Ensures that Maintenance Team Lead is advised when any Safety Critical Equipment has failed to meet the performance standard.
• Contributes to the development of production related emergency response training scenarios.
• Actively contributes to the operations team achieving outstanding performance in meeting BG Group HSSE targets and performance metrics
• Complies with audit schedules as per BG policies, procedures and guidelines.

Maintenance Management
• The Electrical Technician is part of the site operations team and is responsible for maintenance and reliability of the facility and the High and Low voltage electrical equipment. 
• Manages control and instrumentation maintenance activities (daily, weekly, monthly, 90-day and 2-yearly), to maximize the integrity, reliability and availability of electrical plant.
• Optimizes operational activities by critically evaluating maintenance practices in association with Maintenance Team Lead
• Completes routine maintenance, inspections, fault diagnosis and corrective maintenance of electrical equipment including switchgear, 208 AC and 480 AC electrical systems including 12KV switchgear in the case of Beachfield.
• Initiates changes to Preventive Maintenance routines as required to ensure a more effective and efficient Maintenance Policy.
• Initiates changes to procedures, hardware and software to achieve better reliability of electrical equipment.
• Seeks out gaps in maintenance and reliability activities and processes with the responsibility for influencing, and delivering maintenance and reliability improvement. 
• Ensures effective maintenance forecasting for electrical equipment for the assigned BG T&T production site.
• Ensures Safety Critical Routines are completed on time and compliance targets are met. 
• Maintains Safety Critical Equipment backlog at zero
• Maintains non Safety Critical backlog to an absolute minimum.
• Provides detailed maintenance data, equipment history and trends to aid in Root Cause Analysis of all unplanned production outages and ensures measures to avoid repeats are implemented. 
• Manages Work Management Systems, ensuring that the facilities achieve the required integrity, reliability, and availability levels to enable business and asset integrity targets and KPIs are met.
• Uses maintenance reporting tools, enabling effective vendor management; cost, progress against work programmes and safety competence. 
• Ensures safety critical spares are available to assure maximum availability and integrity of electrical equipment.
• In conjunction with the maintenance team members seeks out gaps in maintenance activities with responsibility for contributing to and delivering maintenance improvements.
• Anticipates maintenance activities for electrical equipment and proactively advises of potential impacts to forecasted production rates.
• Develops and reviews maintenance procedures to ensure their fitness for purpose
 
Financials
• Monitors and controls expenditure for annual budget to avoid deviations against forecast
• Assist with the development of annual budgets for maintenance activities
 
Processes and systems
• Responsible to the Maintenance Team Lead for all reportable occurrences and maintenance difficulties, which could affect the safe and continuous production of hydrocarbons from the facility 
• Ensures Work Management System contains comprehensive and accurate maintenance and historical data by continual review and audit of completed work orders. 
• Ensures compliance with maintenance plans.
• Prioritizes, and measures unplanned work scopes. 
• Schedules interventions to improve performance over weekly, monthly and annual cycles. 
• Optimizes maintenance man-hours and minimizes equipment breakdown by critically assessing maintenance practices in association with the Operation Team Lead, and the Maintenance Manager. 
• Promotes system and cost ownership mindset within maintenance teams.
 
People and Organisation
• Manages maintenances resources effectively to optimize maintenance and equipment reliability for electrical equipment.
• Assists with managing the performance of electrical maintenance contractors, and vendor personnel. 
• Ensures maintenance services are delivered cost effectively and support BG T&T business plans.
• Assists electrical maintenance personnel to achieve their full potential. Supports performance and development activities to support improvement and strengthening of individual and team performance. Including the effective implementation of HR Cycle.

Unique Knowledge, Skills, Experience and Attribute

• Preferably a technician diploma qualified in relevant engineering discipline. 
• Good understanding of relevant industry legislation.
• Conversant with maintenance procedures and management documentation, including block diagrams, electrical diagrams, electrical schematics, cause and effect diagrams, PFD’s, P&ID’s, Data Sheets and Computer Maintenance Management Systems.
• Conversant with national and international electrical codes and standards applicable to the design, construction, and operation of process plant electrical machinery.
• Shall be competent in identified Safety Critical Tasks in the following areas, including but not limited to, Ops HSSE, Logistics, and Maintenance.
• Able to manage own time and apply relevant time management techniques to ensure timely delivery of work activities.
• Good communication skills, particularly updating relevant parties on active work scopes.
• Interact with others in a sensitive way, respectful of differences in approach style and culture.
• Actively participates in the attainment of team goals, putting team goals ahead of functional and self interest.
• Track record of continuing professional development to keep abreast of latest developments relevant to discipline and industry.
• Invests time in staying up to date with external technology and environmental/safety issues to apply to own work area.
• Maintains an openness to learning, actively looking for new ways to improve own and others capabilities and performance.
• Proven capability in performing maintenance activities in either oil and gas or chemical industry.
• Proven capability in measuring, reporting and analyzing data to deliver performance and maintenance improvements.
• Proven skills in problem solving in relation to electrical equipment faults and maintenance issues.
• Perform in an emergency response role as defined in Company procedures, contributing to managing and delivering emergency response actions in the event of accidents or incidents under the direction of the OIM.
• Assimilate diverse and fragmented information and identify contingencies.
• Monitor and respond effectively to situation changes.
• Committed to the highest standards of HSSE, working continuously for improvement both in own activities and in those of the assets, projects or other business activities in which they are involved
• Must be very mobile locally to commute to various onshore or offshore sites as required by job responsibility
• Adept at working in an operations and maintenance team structure.
• Strong maintenance experience in electrical equipment in an upstream oil and gas business.
• Track record of demonstrating success at delivering against maintenance plans.
• Preferably a good understanding of cost control and cost management. 
• Ability to challenge outcomes and views which do not meet the production efficiency, availability, and integrity criteria, or hinder delivery thereof.
• Willingness to implement new ways of working that improve equipment availability, reliability and maintainability
• Proficient in the application of maintenance procedures.

Additional Information for External Candidates

BG Group values diversity and is committed to equal opportunities; applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates.
 
Please note that after the closing date you will no longer be able to apply for the vacancy. The specific time of closing is midnight UK time on the date displayed. BG Group also reserves the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date without prior notice.