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Industrial electrical shift cover

Qualified industrial electricians when your maintenance team is short. Annual leave, unplanned absence, a vacancy you are recruiting for, extra shifts, shutdown periods and project workload.

Manufacturing, food production and processing sites across South East Queensland and Northern NSW.

20+ yearshands-on industrial electrical experience
QLD and NSWlicensed electrical contractor
Industrial focusno domestic work

When sites use us

Cover for the gaps in the roster

Maintenance teams are usually sized for a normal week. These are the situations where sites bring us in.

Annual leave

Planned leave that leaves the electrical side of the team short, particularly over holiday periods when several people are away at once.

Unplanned absence

Sick leave and short-notice absence, where the work still has to be covered and the roster has no slack in it.

A vacancy you are recruiting for

Cover for the gap between someone leaving and a replacement starting, which in this trade is rarely a short gap.

Extra shift coverage

Additional electrical coverage during a busy production run, a seasonal peak or a period where the plant is running longer hours.

Shutdown periods

When the team cannot cover the shutdown work and keep the rest of the site going at the same time.

Project workload

When project work is competing with routine maintenance and something is being pushed back every week.

Capability

What we can be handed on day one

The concern with any shift-cover arrangement is whether you end up supervising someone instead of gaining another useful pair of hands. We provide industrial electricians with the background to pick up maintenance and fault-finding work quickly once inducted and briefed on your site.

  • Breakdown response and electrical fault finding on production plant
  • Motors, starters, overloads and motor control circuits
  • Variable speed drives, including fault finding and configuration
  • Switchboards and MCCs, including repairs and modifications
  • Control circuits, relays, contactors, sensors and field devices
  • Safety circuit fault finding and repair against the existing design
  • Planned and preventative maintenance tasks
  • Electrical installation and modification work on plant

Equipment we work across regularly:

Allen-BradleyRockwellSiemens Schneider ElectricDanfossOmron

Site tickets we can supply electricians for:

Working at heightsConfined spaceEWP White cardLV rescue & CPR

Electricians are assigned based on the tickets and competencies your site and the role require. Tell us what the position needs and we will confirm what we can cover. Evidence can be supplied for your contractor records.

Electrical testing on site Bank of PowerFlex drives in a control panel

How it works

Notice, duration and shifts

Notice

Planned notice is preferred and gives us the best chance of covering a requirement properly. Short-notice requests are considered on availability, so it is always worth asking rather than assuming.

Duration

Single shifts through to longer arrangements. Short-term leave cover, shutdown and project periods, and extended cover while a vacancy is being filled.

Shifts

Day, afternoon, night and weekend shift, worked to your site's existing roster.

How many

This depends on the requirement and on current availability. Tell us what you need and when, and we will tell you straight away what we can cover rather than committing to something we cannot resource.

Robotic handling cell on a production line

On site

We work to your systems, not our own

Shift cover only helps if the person fits into how the site already runs. We work within your existing maintenance structure rather than trying to run things independently.

Different sites run different systems, and we expect to work to yours.

On safety systems

We fault find and repair safety circuits, and install safety systems to a design supplied by you or your engineer. We do not design machine safety systems, perform safety validation, or issue safety system certification. We sign off our own electrical wiring.

Related

Other ways we support maintenance teams

Where we work

Sites we cover

Manufacturing
Food and beverage production
Processing plants
Warehousing and logistics

South East Queensland and Northern NSW, from Tweed Heads through the Gold Coast, Yatala, Beenleigh and Logan to Brisbane. Licensed in both states, so sites either side of the border are equally in scope.

BrisbaneBrisbane SouthsideLoganBeenleigh YatalaGold CoastTweed HeadsNorthern NSW

Get in touch

Need cover?

Tell us the site, the dates and the shifts you need covered, and we will come back to you on what we can do.

0434 059 952

Commercial and industrial sites only. We do not do domestic or residential work.

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