Reporting to the Production Engineering Manager, the main purpose of the role is to functionally test and inspect a range of Switchgear products using a range of both medium and high voltage test equipment.
Main Responsibilities
- Reports to the Test Supervisor.
- Ensuring that all products are correctly tested to the applicable standard/specification as per test schedules.
- Operating medium and high voltage test equipment working safely at all times.
- Working in conformance with ISO 9001/12000 test standards
- Ensuring that the company quality policy and management system is understood and adopted.
- Investigate/problem solve issues within the test department and report them to the supervisor.
- Apply production procedures and maintain them for test personnel.
- Identification and implementation of Health and Safety requirements within the Test department.
- Achieve on-time delivery of product testing in line with the agreed production plan.
- Willingness to be trained in delivering the company FAT programme across all products.
- Can fault find electrical components using a schematic
- Carry out mechanical assembly and tightness testing etc
- Carry out High Voltage AC and DC pressure testing
- Preform Primary & Secondary Injection
- Switchgear function, control & protection testing
- Experience in the electrical testing of MV switchboards including such items as protection relays, controls and metering.
- Experience of PLC systems would be an advantage.
- Experience with three phase systems
- Insulation resistance testing
- Experience of PLC systems would be an advantage
Person Specification
- HNC or Degree in an Electrical discipline
- ONC or equivalent will be considered in lieu of the above
- 3 years or more engineering experience in a relevant discipline.
- Experience of Protection relays (MiCOM, Argus, SIPROTEC etc)
- Good IT skills in Microsoft Excel, Word
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- 2 years of product familiarity would be desirable.
- LV or MV Switchgear experience
About Us
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.