E&I Operations & Maintenance Technician

• Qualified Electrical & Instrumentation Trade position at Braemar Power Station.
• Permanent Full-Time residential role, competitive salary on a 4-day working week.
• Autonomous, positive, and engaged team culture with development opportunities.

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You’ll find it at Alinta Energy.

We’re making energy better for our more than 1.1 million customers – and we’re making work life better for our 1,000+ people too.

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At Alinta Energy, we’re a friendly bunch working to be the best energy company. Our culture is collaborative, and our passion drives positive change for people and the planet.

Over the past decade, we’ve evolved from a Western Australian residential gas retailer to one of Australia’s largest energy retailers, generators, investors, and developers with infrastructure across Australia and New Zealand.

Australia’s energy system is undergoing the biggest transformation in its history and we’re right there with it.

Help us make energy better

Braemar Power Station:

Braemar is a 560 MW power station located 35km southwest of Dalby in Southern Queensland. Braemar Power Station is an open-cycle gas turbine plant, which provides both peak and shoulder power. Braemar Power Station is strategically located adjacent to Queensland's CSG fields, with a dedicated pipeline to nearby gas fields. Alinta Energy also owns 150km gas pipeline and compression facility between Condamine and Tipton, which is connected to Brisbane-Roma pipeline and supplies the Braemar Power Station.

About the role:

An exciting opportunity has become available at our Braemar Power Station for an Electrical Operations & Maintenance technician. The primary purpose of the role is to assist with the safe operations and maintenance of the power station. As the successful applicant, you will support the delivery of the annual maintenance work plan and capital projects to safely maximise reliability and availability of the plant.  The role demands a strong focus on teamwork to achieve required outcomes and meet efficiency, production, and cost targets.

In this role, you’ll be:

• Always ensuring the safety of yourself and others by following the AlintaSafe Strategic model.
• Contribute to the continuous development of the annual work plan, then support the execution of the plan.
• Maintain and operate equipment in accordance with the Annual Work Plan to ensure the capacity, availability, and reliability of generating plant.
• Isolate plant and equipment, issue Permit to Work’s, as required by Maintenance Schedule or plant requirements.
• Ensure all maintenance data is recorded and available for analysis, writing reports and other correspondence.
• Contribute to the cost effective and efficient operations of plant and equipment.

Ideally, you’ll bring to the role:

• QLD electrical licence
• Cert III instrumentation or equivalent highly desirable
• EEHA (Electrical Equipment in Hazardous Areas) certification
• PLC experience and High voltage (HV) Networks, switching and maintenance experience desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to perform detailed fault-finding on complex machinery / systems.
• Power Generation experience, Gas Turbine and Industrial Rotating Equipment experience desirable.

This is a great opportunity for an Electrical Operation & Maintenance Technician to join our Braemar Power Station. You will be given the opportunity to develop skills in a range of areas, day to day coordination, project management and prioritisation.

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One of the best things about Alinta Energy is we discover better together. If you like the sound of that, and you’re a match for the role, we’d love to talk to you.

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Alinta Energy is a 2023 Circle Back Initiative employer. We commit to respond to every applicant.

If your application progresses, we will need to complete background and pre-employment checks, such as immigration checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, qualification checks, and additional checks for roles related to finance.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Click ‘Apply’ to submit your application.
Closing date: 1st of April. 

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