We are currently seeking a highly skilled, safety-driven CompEx Ex01-Ex04 Electrician to lead the installation, forensic inspection, and continuous maintenance of critical electrical equipment in potentially explosive atmospheres across our portfolio.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy and as a critical leader within a multi-disciplinary team, you will serve as the definitive technical authority on site for all hazardous area compliance. We are actively looking for a seasoned professional who views electrical safety not merely as a compliance checklist, but as a core, non-negotiable engineering philosophy.
- Statutory Execution: Execute complex electrical and instrumentation installation, maintenance, and remedial works within explosive gas and vapour environments in absolute strict accordance with BS EN 60079-14 and 60079-17 standards.
- DSEAR Compliance: Conduct comprehensive DSEAR inspections, taking profound responsibility for the production of meticulous red-line marked as-built documentation and legally binding test records to preserve the site's safety case.
- Technical Forensics: Perform advanced fault finding, forensic investigation, and rapid repair on complex control systems, fuel management telemetry systems, and a wide array of Ex-certified apparatus (including Ex 'd' flameproof, Ex 'e' increased safety, and Ex 'i' intrinsically safe loops).
- Safe Systems of Work: Safely execute high-stakes electrical isolations, manage stringent Permit to Work systems, and generate highly detailed, site-specific Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS) prior to any operational commencement.
- Infrastructure Integration: Carry out control panel manufacture and modification, fluently interpreting, updating, and calibrating complex electrical schematics and site drawings.
- Site Leadership: Act as a decisive leader on site, communicating effectively with site management and client representatives, delegating tasks safely to supporting trades, and highlighting any health and safety anomalies with immediate, uncompromising authority.
- Essential Certification: An active, valid CompEx Ex01-Ex04 Certificate of Core Competence is strictly required.
- Core Qualifications: Time-served SJIB/JIB Approved Electrician or Technician status, possessing an NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in Electrotechnical Services, alongside the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations (BS7671).
- Demonstrable Experience: Proven, extensive industrial experience working within the fuel distribution, utility, petrochemical, or defence sectors with a deep, practical understanding of ATEX directives and thermodynamic fault conditions.
A full, clean UK Driving Licence is absolutely essential due to the continuous field-based nature of the role across Scotland.
