Industrial Electrician at Perstorp Specialty Chemicals
Do you want to work with electrical maintenance in a complex and safety-focused industrial environment where your expertise makes a real difference every day?
We are now looking for an electrician with a focus on industrial maintenance for our maintenance department in Perstorp. With us, you will be an important part of the maintenance organization at a chemical process industry where operational reliability, safety, and continuous improvements are at the center.
As an electrician, you report to the Maintenance Manager for Electrical & Instrumentation and are part of a dedicated team within electrical and instrument maintenance. The role is broad and varied, with work tasks related to maintenance, projects, facility management, and improvement work in our process facilities and support functions.
About the Role
In this role, you work with both preventive and corrective electrical maintenance. You help ensure that our facilities operate safely, efficiently, and in compliance with applicable requirements. Your day-to-day work consists of planned work, acute troubleshooting, installations, commissioning, and improvements related to both process and safety.
Your main responsibilities will include:
Coordinate, plan, prepare, and perform electrical maintenance in process facilities.
Work with preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, and acute measures.
Assist with commissioning, sign-off, and pre-startup inspections.
Participate in improvement work related to maintenance processes, instructions, operational reliability, and work environment.
Support cost estimation and, when needed, plan procurement.
Actively contribute to safety work with a focus on work environment, personal safety, and external environment.
Document and follow up work in our maintenance system SAP.
Beyond this, work also includes various types of PLCs and control systems.
The position includes on-call duty according to schedule.
Who Are You?
We are looking for someone with secondary education in electrical engineering or equivalent relevant work experience. You have several years of experience as an electrician, industrial electrician, or from work with industrial or facility maintenance.
To thrive in this role, we believe you are someone who works in a structured and methodical way, with a strong safety mindset and good organizational skills. You are thorough, take responsibility, and think through the consequences before you act. At the same time, you are solution-oriented, proactive, and enjoy working closely with operations personnel, projects, contractors, and other professional groups.
We would like to see that you have experience with or knowledge of any of the following:
Industrial electrical systems and troubleshooting in process environments.
Electrical distribution, electrical installation rules, and applicable standards.
High-voltage systems.
SSG, ESA, ATEX, or similar industrial requirements.
SAP or other maintenance systems.
SAP experience is a merit, but not a requirement. A driver's license (category B) is required for this position.
What We Offer
At Perstorp, you get a responsible and developmental role in a high-tech industrial environment with a strong focus on safety, quality, and improvements. You become part of a knowledgeable team where we help each other, share experiences, and work together to create a safe and reliable facility.
A safe and pleasant work environment is one of our most important priorities. We actively work with safety, health-promoting measures, and a way of working where reliability, responsibility, and the desire to make things better are central parts of daily life.
Good insurance and occupational pension terms.
We believe that balance in life is a prerequisite for feeling job satisfaction and engagement. We also support fitness and training opportunities in the workplace.
Terms of Employment: The position is a permanent employment contract with placement in Perstorp. Working hours are daytime, and on-call duty is included according to schedule.
Since Perstorp Specialty Chemicals has zero tolerance for alcohol and drug impairment during work hours, alcohol and drug testing before employment is mandatory. Random testing may also occur during employment.
Start Date: Ongoing according to agreement.
Does This Sound Interesting?
If you have questions or would like to know more about the position, you are warmly welcome to contact Jonatan Johansson, Maintenance Manager for Electrical & Instrumentation: [email protected]
We will begin selection and interviews in early August. We look forward to your application!
We treat all candidates equally: If you are interested, please apply through our application system. This will ensure that the candidate experience is smooth and fair for everyone.
Additional Information
If you wish to contact a union representative, you can reach Per Igglund (Akademikerna) [email protected], Rickard Martinsson (Unionen) [email protected], or Rebecka Lundell (IF Metall) [email protected]
About Perstorp
Perstorp believes in improving everyday life so it becomes safer, more comfortable, and more environmentally friendly for billions of people around the world. As a world-leading specialty chemicals company, our innovations provide essential properties to a wide range of products used every day, everywhere. You will find us in everything from your car and mobile phone to wind power plants and local dairy farms. Simply put, we work to make good products even better, with a clear sustainability agenda.
Perstorp was founded in 1881, and our innovative products and solutions are built on more than 140 years of experience and represent a complete range of solutions within organic chemistry, process technology, and application development. Perstorp has approximately 1,500 employees and manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Perstorp Site, located in southern Sweden, is one of the largest manufacturing facilities in the Perstorp Group and has been in operation since 1881. Base and specialty polyols, formates, organic acids, and formalin are the main products manufactured at Perstorp. Read more at www.perstorp.com
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