Electrical Maintainer
Bremer Park - Ipswich
Employed as an Electrical Maintenance Technician, and shift maintenance Team Leader, with primary role to lead, direct and control my team to meet all maintenance KPI’s on safety and downtime. As a team leader I was expected to plan shift activities, co-ordinate responses to breakdowns, support production crews, conduct planned and corrective work, and utilize resources efficiently.Further to this as a maintenance electrician I was responsible for the repair and maintenance of aluminium extrusion equipment including gas fired log heating furnaces, 1800 and 2500 tonne extrusion presses, material handling tables, profile saws, aging ovens, automated overhead travelling cranes, automated warehousing equipment, anodizing plant, vertical and horizontal powder coat paint lines. This equipment is controlled using Allen Bradley: Compact Logix, Micro Logix, SLC500 and Control Logix processors.Equipment included• 2 UBE 2500 tonne aluminium extrusion presses• 2 UBE 1800 tonne aluminium extrusion presses• 4 Gas fired aluminium log heating furnaces• Aluminium profile handling tables• 14 Gas fired aging (tempering) ovens• Automated warehouse• Anodizing plant and equipment• 2 vertical powder coating lines• 1 horizontal powder coating line• Various automated packaging equipment• Allen Bradley 1747 controllers / Rockwell Logix 500• Allen Bradley 1756 controllers / Rockwell Logix 5000• Allen Bradley micrologix• Allen Bradley device net, control net and flex IO• ABB variable speed drives