Hi All,
I've joined today because I'm after some advice from people in the field about what requirements are necessary and what maybe considered a luxury or not worth the cost, in regard to doing industrial electrical work.
My partner and I have started our company, consulting industrial maintenance engineering and compliance, mostly food processing sector.
Our backgrounds are both fully qualified maintenance (elec/mech) engineering apprenticeships to BTEC HNC electrical, 17th edition, 2391 inspection and testing but we don't do a lot of that now, and haven't really for years after taking our current roles. I specialise in designing and maintaining PLC and control systems, panel building and the like and he does engineering manager role so running planned maintenance, compliance and procedures etc. and all the stuff that goes with running a team of 40+ staff. We've been in engineering for 20+ years each but in the comfort of falling within the net of the our employers in regards to insurance, accreditations, designated duty holder etc.
We've been consulting on preventative planned maintenance and diagnosis of faults on process machinery as part of our side business. Our current customer has asked if we can install some three phase sockets and do some installations. No issues practically but again, we were both younger and benefited from working in-house, in all honesty the only time I've looked at the regs or anything is in showing apprentices how to do things properly.
Whilst we are experienced in 3-phase and installations, multi machine process wiring and all the like, we are not confident in our legal obligations/ requirements doing these things as new directors of our company, and even if we should go down that road.
I see that NICEIC require 2 years of duty holder experience and the insurance requirement doubles our premium. Is this along with the cost worth it? I'm assuming I can take on the role of duty holder within my company, as I have a background in electrical engineering I can sign off work with my 17th, my 2391 and my general competency? Do I need to worry about design and verification to install new machinery and process plant to existing boards?
We probably won't be going anywhere domestic if this helps narrow down our requirements. Any advice would be great, bit of a minefield
Thanks for taking the time to read if you go this far!
I've joined today because I'm after some advice from people in the field about what requirements are necessary and what maybe considered a luxury or not worth the cost, in regard to doing industrial electrical work.
My partner and I have started our company, consulting industrial maintenance engineering and compliance, mostly food processing sector.
Our backgrounds are both fully qualified maintenance (elec/mech) engineering apprenticeships to BTEC HNC electrical, 17th edition, 2391 inspection and testing but we don't do a lot of that now, and haven't really for years after taking our current roles. I specialise in designing and maintaining PLC and control systems, panel building and the like and he does engineering manager role so running planned maintenance, compliance and procedures etc. and all the stuff that goes with running a team of 40+ staff. We've been in engineering for 20+ years each but in the comfort of falling within the net of the our employers in regards to insurance, accreditations, designated duty holder etc.
We've been consulting on preventative planned maintenance and diagnosis of faults on process machinery as part of our side business. Our current customer has asked if we can install some three phase sockets and do some installations. No issues practically but again, we were both younger and benefited from working in-house, in all honesty the only time I've looked at the regs or anything is in showing apprentices how to do things properly.
Whilst we are experienced in 3-phase and installations, multi machine process wiring and all the like, we are not confident in our legal obligations/ requirements doing these things as new directors of our company, and even if we should go down that road.
I see that NICEIC require 2 years of duty holder experience and the insurance requirement doubles our premium. Is this along with the cost worth it? I'm assuming I can take on the role of duty holder within my company, as I have a background in electrical engineering I can sign off work with my 17th, my 2391 and my general competency? Do I need to worry about design and verification to install new machinery and process plant to existing boards?
We probably won't be going anywhere domestic if this helps narrow down our requirements. Any advice would be great, bit of a minefield
Thanks for taking the time to read if you go this far!
