Industrial Electrician

You lay cable on trays and in conduit from the single line diagram, terminate into the distribution board, and connect motors, sensors and lighting circuits. Every circuit is tested before it is energised: insulation resistance with the megger, continuity of the protective conductor, and the loop, all recorded on the test protocol. On a shutdown you work to a permit and a lock out, and nothing is switched without the plant engineer. Half the year is new installation and half is maintenance. Days are 07:00-15:00 with planned shutdown weekends paid at the higher rate.

Electrical secondary school and five years on industrial installations

Licence for work on installations up to one kilovolt

Reads a single line diagram and a terminal list

Megger, clamp meter and loop tester used daily

Lock out and permit discipline in a running plant

Functional English for the manuals on imported drives and sensors

Ready for a planned shutdown weekend a few times a year

Net salary from 1107 up to 1218 EUR per month

Permanent contract from the first day, no agency in between

Shutdown weekends paid at a higher hourly rate

Meal allowance and coffee in the site container

Company van from Pancevo and from Belgrade for the crew

Licence renewal and the yearly medical paid by the employer

Insulated tools, arc rated clothing, helmet, gloves and boots

The contractor is building an automation team and pays the course on programmable controllers for electricians who want to move from cable to control cabinets. Two site leader posts open with the next contract.

Plant halls, roofs and cable tunnels, so the work moves between height, dust and noise. Arc rated clothing, insulated gloves, a helmet with a visor and boots are worn wherever the plant rules require them.