Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Wavin – an Orbia business where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting our world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we live for. How about you?

At Wavin, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The very places we live in: our cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join forces with us, join our team, and help build more sustainable environments! 

We want to build a team of people with purpose.

That’s why Wavin is currently looking for a Electrical Control and Instrumentation Technician to join our team at Hazlehead. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

We are currently looking for an Electrical Control and Instrumentation Technician to join our Hazlehead site. Reporting to the Electrical Services Manager, the Electrical Control and Instrumentation Technician will provide electrical & electronic engineering support to the Hazlehead site to ensure business continuity and Health and Safety legal compliance.

Responsibilities

• To operate in line with all Wavin H&S standards. Embrace and contribute to the Wavin ISRS safety programme
• To support and maintain all site LV infrastructure
• To support engineering capital and revenue projects (particularly electrical and automation) in all areas of manufacturing plant and to improve efficiency and electrical /mechanical safety across all sites, ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time and in budget
• To support for site infrastructure maintenance and development plans (planned and unplanned improvement works)
• To provide detailed technical support and specification (including troubleshooting) for automation/PLC related projects
• To maintain and advance kiln, dyer and calcine process instrumentation, including pressure, temperature, humidity and other monitoring devices
• To support how process instruments can provide better data and data monitoring to make processes more efficient and energy saving using SCADA systems
• To strategically support and maintain process data systems, including SCADA systems and digital recorders
• To support energy reduction CAPEX investment activity from project feasibility studies & proposal development through to installation and post investment appraisal
• To offer strategic H&S, engineering/maintenance support where required.
• To ensure full Electrical compliance at all times
• To provide technical support to ensure efficiency in process
• To drive, deliver and monitor Electrical & Energy Related capital projects
• To undertake Energy Consumption Monitoring
• Sufficient competency and experience to fulfil their requirements as identified in the ‘Management of Engineering Asset Integrity Policy Document’
• DSEAR trained & COMPEX approved engineer
• Functional Safety awareness and annual proof testing
• To take part in training programmes relevant to the role

Profile

• Experience in industrial instrumentation engineering in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with AutoCAD and PLC’s and SCADA systems.
• CDM Regulations.
• IOSH Managing Safely.
• Electricity at Work 1989.
• PUWER 1998.
• Duty Holders.
• Previous experience of being apprentice trained would be desirable, or equivalent to EITB in both Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.
• National Certificate in Electrical Engineering.
• Higher National Diploma in Electrical Engineering.
• 18th Edition BS7671 Requirements for Electrical Installations.

Wavin offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Wavin! At Wavin, we encourage all our employees to develop their talent and to become the best version of themselves with great innovative programs. Here, we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Wavin is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organisation

Orbia’s Building and Infrastructure business Wavin is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, Wavin is advancing life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Wavin collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Wavin has 12,000+ employees around 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network.

Wavin is a business of Orbia. A company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in the Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluorinated Solutions (Koura) sectors. The five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has commercial activities in more than 110 countries and operations in over 50, with global headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $9.6 billion in revenue in 2022.