Maintenance E&C Team Leader

About Nyrstar:  

Nyrstar is an international producer of critical minerals and metals essential for a low carbon future.  With a market leading position in zinc and lead, Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the United States and Australia and employs approximately 4,000 people. Its Corporate Office is based in Budel-Dorplein, the Netherlands.  The company’s operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate reliable and efficient delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products.  Nyrstar’s operating business is wholly owned by Trafigura, one of the world’s leading independent commodity trading and supply chain logistics companies.  Visit www.nyrstar.com.  

Overview of the role

This role ensures the efficient, and reliable operation of all electrical and automation systems, while supporting production goals and compliance with regulatory standards. The supervisor provides technical expertise, manages a team of skilled electrical technicians, and collaborates cross-functionally to drive innovation, minimize downtime, and enhance system performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the awareness and compliance of employees working within the department with all SEHQ work practices and electrical safety rules.
• Conduct Risk Assessments prior to work to identify and reduce risk.
• Provide effective leadership that communicates direction and focus for a team of electrical technicians.
• Maintain payroll exceptions and other administrative tasks such as vacation, overtime, on call request, outage information and daily planned work.
• Directly audit work completion for scope and quality. Verify time confirmations with follow on work as required.
• Actively participates in complex troubleshooting efforts while guiding the team through structured root cause analysis (RCA) processes.
• Evaluate maintenance costs in the context of his team while identifying opportunities for lowering costs.
• Participates in the development of the weekly plan cycle  order  and commits to its execution.
• Directly plan and supervise emergency work for execution.
• Must be able to adhere to the published work schedule while being flexible in hours based on workload.
• Willing to work and take call ins all shifts including holidays and weekends when demanded by the job.
• Manage team compliance with Nyrstar Environmental policies.
• Must have knowledge to use hand tools on a daily basis such as power tools, Multimeter, Calibrator, Field Communicator, Power Logger, Oscilloscope, etc.
• Work from elevated areas (ladders, platforms, scaffolding, and others as required) utilizing fall protection equipment when needed.
• Must be able to utilize industrial powered vehicles (RTFL, Forklift, Aerial Lift, Scissor Lift).
• Work near equipment with high levels of electrical incident energy.
• Must have a working knowledge and proficiency of installing, repairing and maintaining industrial electrical components and equipment. Lighting, electrical protective devices, motors, VFD’s, soft-starts, wye-delta systems, generators along with relay and ethernet based controls.  Must have a working knowledge of PLC’s, schematics, mathematics, basic computer literacy, safe electrical test and measurement best practices.
• Must have an awareness and be able to perform calibration and documentation of functions pertaining to the key elements of: flow measurement, level measurement, pressure, temperature, analytical instrumentation.  Must be able to troubleshoot process control loops – using key elements and specialized testing equipment.
• Must have an awareness and be able to perform functions pertaining to: terminating motor starters, control & power wires; cut, thread, bend and install raceway, conduit and cable trays in an industrial settings; Install wire through raceway and cable trays.
• Maintenance and Isolation of various electrical power apparatus including medium voltage circuit breakers. High voltage transformers, instrument transformers, grounding systems, meters, relays.
• Manage and maintain a high standard of housekeeping within the department. 

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

• At least 5 years supervisory experience
• 3-5 + yrs. experience in an industrial electrical &instrumentation setting.
• Certification/degree in an associated electrical engineering or industrial maintenance related field.
• Strong Controls, and electrical skills with a willingness to learn and expand your skills.
• Must be willing to work overtime on weekdays, weekends and holidays as required.