OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.
Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.
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Days of Working: Monday to Friday - 8:00am to 17:00pm
Location: Midlands - Covering Sites in Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry, Worcester and Derby
OCS are looking for an enthusiastic and capable individual to form a key part of the team.
- As part of a small team of technical specialists, provide the role of Technical Authority for all Electrical Systems on the BBC Account, supporting OCS UK’s delivery of the highest levels of technical service and support.
- Provide technical guidance, leadership, advice and direction to OCS UK staff, BBC Customers and Supply Chain Partners (SCP) to ensure the BBC Account remains technically compliant
- Collaboratively work alongside BBC Workplace team to achieve BBC’s short, medium and long-term technical strategies, providing OCS UK technical input and considerations.
- Act as the authoritative technical point of contact for all Electrical system operating standards and performance requirements.
- Champion continuous improvement for system performance, processes, procedures, and monitoring for the Electrical Systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the delivery of the electrical annual performance analysis and condition surveys, ensuring they are completed on time, to the required standard and findings are effectively communicated and acted upon.
- Analyse electrical testing and inspection data: adjust and optimise maintenance routines based on historical trends.
- Analyse complex electrical systems where required to understand faults and performance limitations and make recommendations to address short-falls and delivery improvements. Develop, introduce and maintain electrical operating instructions and related documents e.g. Standard Operation Procedures (SOP's) and logbooks that define the site electrical safety program.
- Provide electrical subject matter expertise in support of deviation investigation, participation with Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities. Also, where necessary introduce new ways of working to the site operations teams.
- Provide control and assume overall responsibility for compliant electrical systems including statutory tasks, ensuring the OCS Compliance Manager is kept informed of status and performance of equipment.
- Proactive engagement in LCAM electrical system reviews ensuring continuous improvement.
- Ensure risks are appropriately documented and managed via OCS/ BBC systems.
- Alongside the BBC Account Authorising Engineer, monitor all staff and SCP’s who service electrical systems ensuring they are suitably trained, certified and competent.
- Conduct account Level 2 technical audits, alongside other members of the Engineering Pillar.
- In conjunction with Operational Technical Leads, set, support and deliver professional electrical engineering standards, training requirements, competency standards (Knowledge, Skills & Experience) and support competency assessment delivery, where required.
- Perform routine management monitoring to measure site program effectiveness.
- Review data integrity in the client CAFM system to ensure statutory requirements are met or exceeded, ensure correct maintenance for all electrical assets is in place.
- Conduct AP (HV/LV) duties as required.
- Provide technical support to ensure necessary capital expenditure is prioritised and risks reduced.
- Recommend improvement opportunities and champion implementation
Personal Specification:
Required
- Electrical Engineering HNC or equivalent.
- 18th Edition Regulations
- In-depth technical and operational knowledge of Electricity at Work Regs, to allow operational control to be gained over compliance for electrical systems.
- City & Guilds 2360 Part 1 & 2 or equivalent NVQ & C&G 2383 -18.
- 5 years + experience of installation, testing and maintenance and operation of HV/LV distribution systems.
- AP(HV/LV)
Desirable
- C&G 2391-52 Inspection & Testing, & C&G 2396 Design & Verification of Electrical Installations
- Electrical Engineering Degree.
- Achieved or be working towards Chartered or Incorporated status.
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