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Technician Maintenance - Electrican
Whitehaven Coal
BlackwaterFull-timeMid LevelOn-site
Job Description
What You’ll Do
- Maintain CHPP electrical systems — conduct inspections, preventive maintenance and fault‑finding across screens, centrifuges, conveyors, pumps, thickeners, flotation circuits, feeders and associated fixed‑plant equipment.
- Support plant reliability — identify defects, implement corrective actions and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives across the CHPP.
- Perform HV operations — switching, testing, commissioning and troubleshooting in accordance with site HV procedures.
- Ensure compliance and safety — work within the site SHMS, electrical standards and statutory regulations, ensuring safe isolations and controlled maintenance activities.
- Document maintenance activities — record electrical performance data, defects and improvements to support reliability engineering and operational planning.
What You’ll Bring
- Current Queensland Electrical Licence with a strong commitment to safe, compliant electrical work.
- Experience in CHPP, fixed‑plant, mineral processing or heavy industrial electrical maintenance.
- Demonstrated capability in complex process‑plant isolations and safe work on fixed‑plant systems.
- Strong technical expertise across SCADA, PLCs, instrumentation, and advanced fault‑diagnosis techniques.
- Qualifications and/or experience in High Voltage Switching & Access, or the ability to obtain these.
- Exposure to EEHA maintenance processes and inspections.
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