Instrument & Electrical Technician

Company description:

• Apply your Electrical and Instrumentation (E&I) trade knowledge to ensure the reliability of plant equipment
• Enjoy long-term career development with Kleenheat, including competitive remuneration, share allocations, and access to diverse opportunities across the Wesfarmers.
• Permanent, full-time position based in Kwinana

About Kleenheat

For over 60 years, Kleenheat has provided energy solutions to homes and businesses across Western Australia. As part of the Wesfarmers Group, we're committed to delivering energy for today's customers and tomorrow's opportunities, with a focus on safe and reliable products and helpful customer service

Our values - safety, accountability, integrity, collaboration, and customer focus - are at the heart of everything we do. We believe our people are the key to our success.

Job description:

The Opportunity

We're seeking an experienced Instrument & Electrical Technician to join our Maintenance Operations team. In this role, you'll provide technical expertise in instrumentation and electrical systems to ensure the safe, reliable operation of our assets. You will inspect, calibrate and repair electrical equipment on assets across our LPG and LNG production, storage and distribution assets.

You will ensure that electrical and instrument plant and equipment provide the reliability that the business requires by undertaking and completing instrument and electrical maintenance and projects in a safe and efficient manner.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Assisting maintenance and operations in the planning, implementation, and completion of both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance.
• Fault finding and rectification for electrical equipment and instrumentation system.
• Self-manage completion of discrete packaged planned campaign type maintenance or remediation.
• Assisting with installation projects for new facilities.
• Carrying out installation, pre-commissioning checks and assisting in the final commissioning of electrical and instrumentation equipment as required.
• Carrying out Inspection of work, hazardous area inspections and package checks as required.
• Providing support for project meetings on conceptual analysis, hazards and operability studies and other team activities required in development and review of projects.
• Participating in a callout roster, responding to callouts and unplanned maintenance in a positive, helpful and timely manner.
• Providing relevant feedback to enable maintenance planning improvements in terms of cost, efficiency and equipment integrity.
• Following workplace occupational health and safety policies and procedures for hazard identification and risk assessment, and ensuring safety remains our number one priority in the workplace.

About you

To be successful you will have the following:

• Cert IV Instrumentation
• WA A grade unrestricted Electrical Worker License
• Cert IV EEHA
• High Voltage Switching Operations
• Hold a current Australian Driver License.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of industry experience in a maintenance role at a Production Facility, preferably in the oil and gas, or chemical sector.
• Understanding and navigation of DCS, SIS and PLC Systems (DeltaV, Hima, Allen Bradley, Schnieder) and thorough knowledge of Fieldbus and HART instrumentation.
• Detailed understanding of statutory electrical inspections and testing in accordance with Australian Standards
• Other qualifications and High Risk Licences are desirable including CSE and Gas Testing, EWP, LF.
• Strong safety focus with experience working with permits and hazard analysis.
• An ability to plan and execute your own work schedule in line with competing priorities and demands.
• A positive can-do attitude with the ability to work as part of a team.
• A strong focus on safety.

We value our employees by offering:

At Kleenheat, we have a range of benefits to keep life flowing inside and outside of the workplace.

• Kleenheat's employee discount off your residential LPG or natural gas account.
• Competitive remuneration including allocation of Wesfarmers shares and participation in our annual incentive plan.
• Time for family with parental leave payment up to 18 weeks
• Ongoing professional learning and development opportunities across our diverse businesses and the Wesfarmers Group to help you progress your career.
• Salary sacrifice opportunities, including novated lease vehicle packaging
• Access to a range of employee benefits across WesCEF and Wesfarmers including staff discounts at Bunnings, Kmart, Target and Officeworks.

We welcome people with different skills, and life experiences and encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are committed to building an engaged and talented workforce that is representative of the people who live in the communities where we operate. Fostering an environment where diversity of thinking, skills and experiences are embraced, delivering innovation and better business results. We welcome and encourage people from diverse backgrounds and particularly, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to apply.

Applications close: 5pm AWST Sunday 7th December 2025

Our recruitment process considers your alignment to our company values and the requirements of the role. We also have several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your suitability for the role including but not limited to psychometric assessment, police checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, right to work check, qualifications, due diligence, and/or reference checks.

We reserve the right to commence the recruitment process prior to the closing date. Therefore, it is recommended to apply as soon as possible.

Agency applications will not be accepted.