Company details

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Function

Mission

The Electrical Maintenance Engineer is responsible for the optimal operation of equipment, materials and infrastructures, while respecting reliability, quality, safety and budget objectives. He/she works on the equipment that constitutes the heart of the hot strip mill process at La Louvière factory, a site capable of producing 2 million tonnes of steel per year.

Main responsibilities

• Ensure the reliability of equipment in the area for which he/she is responsible
• Analyze the causes and consequences of equipment failures, define the necessary actions and ensure follow-up.
• Establish weekly and monthly maintenance priorities for the area (direct intervention, weekly maintenance, major maintenance).
• Define the content of maintenance plans, assess their relevance and need for updating.
• Define spare parts procurement strategy
• Analyze the recurrence of non-standard events and ensure that controls are planned
• Plan, prepare and evaluate external maintenance services
• Ensure that internal preparation activities are carried out correctly
• Gather, formalize and share knowledge of how equipment and systems work, and help to ensure that they are properly understood.
• Manage the necessary tests
• Validate the quality of technical interventions carried out
• Participate in an on-call role outside service hours

Profile

Your background

You have an electrical engineering background. Master's and bachelor's degrees are both relevant.

• Candidates with a Master's degree should have at least 2 years' experience in maintenance in the steel industry, or at least 5 years' experience in industrial maintenance.
• Candidates with a Bachelor's degree should have at least 10 years' experience in industrial maintenance.

Your skills

• Good electrical skills (reading electrical plans, P&ID, etc.) with basics mechanical skills.
• Good command of industrial maintenance processes.
• Knowledge of failure mode analysis techniques (FMECA - AMDEC), root cause analysis, Ishikawa, etc.
• Dialogue skills (listening and communication skills).
• Team player with good listening and communication skills.
• Organized, efficient and able to prioritize.
• Takes responsibility independently and makes decisions (from simple to complex) in all situations.
• Knowledge of French (min. C1) and technical English (B2).

Offer

The environment

The reliability team is managed by our Maintenance Engineering Manager. His team consists of 4 Mechanical Maintenance Engineers and 4 Electrical Maintenance Engineers (this position included).

As an Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for the electrical maintenance of one of the 4 zones of our Hot Strip Mill. You will manage your mission autonomously and can rely on your direct or cross-functional team (each zone has its own engineers specialized in production, mechanics, electricity, autonomation, process and methods).

NLMK La Louvière is a historic factory in Wallonia, formerly Boël, and nonetheless a modern industry. The NLMK La Louvière Hot Strip Mill underwent an ambitious revamping program, which was completed in 2023. Our production facility is the most modern in Central Europe and offers a stimulating playground.

Other projects are ongoing to diversify steel supplies and even develop our own steelworks in Europe. Transformations are underway to renew our business model, which is still viable today, in order to limit the impact of the European authorities' reduction in the import of Russian steel by the end of 2028.

At NLMK, your career and development are in your hands. There are plenty of opportunities if you want to seize them.

Are you interested? Send us your application!

The recruitment process

As soon as we receive your application, we send you an automatic email. Our recruiters then take over and analyze your application with the team manager. This step can take time as we receive a lot of CVs, thank you for your patience.

In case of interest, we'll contact you to arrange an initial phone interview. This will be the opportunity to check the essential elements and tell you more about the recruitment process.

Good reasons to join us

• Maintenance Engineers are responsible for their own objectives and are autonomous.
• Technical variety and complexity (mechanical, electrical, automation, hydraulic, etc.).
• Work with modern, state-of-the-art production tools.
• Contribute to the success of a historic industry that is renewing itself and investing in green steel.

Do you want to be part of shaping the future of green, carbon-free steel? Do you want to be part of a team where everyone has a say? Do you want to join a fast-moving environment with many opportunities for career development?

You can make the difference and make your voice heard at NLMK Europe! Create your opportunity to start, grow and develop in one of the world's most successful steel companies. NLMK's success is based on the strength of a team with family values and a strong international presence. A team that improves and innovates every day to be better than yesterday, with excellence and customer satisfaction in mind, and safety as the cornerstone of everything!

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