Electrician

About this opportunity

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the PACT Group Contract Manufacturing Division as an Electrician. The primary purpose of the role is to maintain electrical equipment and keep equipment running efficiently and cost efficiently. Maintaining stock of electrical goods to fulfill the role and sourcing components as required.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Maintain the Safety requirements of the site
• Ensure Safety Lockouts are performed correctly
• Training and coaching staff members
• Ensure Safety and control measures are maintained
• Diagnose faults
• Source components
• Organise installation work
• Liaise with onsite contractors
• Work within the budget
• Manage Installs, tests, commissions machinery
• Diagnose, maintain and repair electrical and electronic equipment, networks and systems
• Reads drawings, electrical diagrams and specifications to determine job requirements plans, measures and lays out installation reference points

• Selects, cuts and connects wire and cable to terminals and connectors uses electrical and electronic test instruments to trace and diagnose faults repairs or replaces faulty wiring and defective parts
• Positions and installs electrical switchboards
• Connects electrical systems and equipment to power supplies
• Tests continuity of circuit to ensure safety and electrical characteristics such as voltage, resistance and phase angle
• Installs, tests and adjusts electric and mechanical parts of equipment
• Communicate with Professional Engineers or Architects on the positioning of electrical systems
• Sourcing of components
• Liaising with suppliers to obtain the best quality, service and cost
• Liaise with production planning for breakdowns/ maintenance
• Quality department in relation to vision systems and machine performance
• Maintenance department to achieve harmonious rapid repairs and upgrades

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• A seasoned industrial electrical specialist with over 10 years + experience within the Plastics and manufacturing industries specialising in advanced blow & injection moulding machinery maintenance  and repair in a production critical environment,
• Technical hands-on ability in factory automation solutions with the application know how necessary to create and maintain special purpose machinery, production control and software design through to full control system retrofits and plant wide project management.
• Specialises and excels in advanced products including machine vision inspection systems, PLC / HMI programming, robotic programming and control system networking.

• Licensed Electrical tradesperson
• Diploma of Project Management
• Advanced Omron Vision Systems
• Advanced PLC programming certificate
• Machinery risk assessment and design certificate AS4024
• Allen Bradley PLC programming certificate
• Certificate in Industrial Hydraulics
• Siemens PLC Programming course
• ABB industrial Robot programming
• Plastic Injection moulding technician and Operations Certificate
• Industrial Electronics Cert IV

About us

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan. 

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.