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Reporting to the HVDC Service Operations manager you will primarily be responsible for working at the East to West Interconnector (EWIC) High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Link at Portan HVDC Converter, Red Road, Batterstown, Co Meath, A86 RY28 along with other Hitachi Energy HVDC customer sites throughout the UK and Ireland including sites but primarily the Portan HVDC Converter Station. 

Duties will include supporting all aspects of the Long-Term Service Agreements (LTSA) contracts of new and existing client sites. You will work closely with the local Service Team and our support partners to provide high level engineering support to our 1st & 2nd line support engineers. This support will require availability 24/7 to support our on-call engineers on site.

Also you will provide 1st line support along with maintenance & repair services for the EWIC Long Term Service Agreement (LTSA). You will work closely with the existing Service Team to gain the competencies to provide 1st line support. This 1st line support will require 24/7 on-call on a 1 week in 4 rota with a fast response time to site Flexible working hours will also be required for significant maintenance tasks and on an impromptu basis as required. Contribute to improving Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) performance in the organisation to ensure an exemplary health and safety culture as well as a strong focus on the environment.

There will also be the chance to support the wider HVDC business as and when required by the needs of the business.

Main Accountabilities - Responsibilities, Tasks & Interactions:

• Maintain a strong relationship with our valued customers.

• Engineering and technical support for the HVDC Service team in the UK & Ireland.

• Lead the service engineers on complex issues or major upgrades.

• Attend Factory System Tests (FST) when requested.

• Responsibility of Maintenance Management system and development of maintenance procedures to the local regulatory requirements.

• Working together with the Operations manager in the Development & Competency Management planning of personnel including training and certification of support staff ensuring we have the proper, skilled, and competent staff in place.

• Tender support for future links in the region and globally.

• Deliver exceptionally high availability to all customers.

• Facilitate availability reporting & Cigre reporting.

• Safety rules adaption to client and Hitachi Energy rules.

• Work closely with the HSEQ advisor to develop, review and improve existing and new procedures and policies.

 Hitachi Energy People Values

• To maintain a safe working environment for all site employees & mitigate the risks.

• Ensure ethical behavior in line with code of conduct.

• Manage Health Safety and Environmental risks associated with the business unit.

• Be part of the environment that allows all employees to develop and succeed

Requirements - Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

Essential

• Undergraduate Engineering degree with 2+ years’ experience in HV power systems

• HV (>125kV) substation experience.

• Maintenance / fault finding experience with items of High Voltage equipment.

• Maintenance / fault finding experience with LV and mechanical systems.

• Experience in delivering technical reports and fault analysis.

• Experience working with maintenance management systems.

• Experience creating and updating detailed maintenance work packs.

• Experience creating, reviewing and approving high level policy and procedural

documents.

• Experience leading engineers of lesser experience.

• An ability to be able to present detailed training and technical talks.

• Experience creating detailed work packs for planned and fault rectification works.

• An ability to work under pressure and on your own initiative.

• Sound communication.

• Team building skills.

• MS Office skills including Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.

• Fluent written & spoken English.

• A good working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental regulations along with a relevant qualification.

• Driving license.

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