Overview

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team play a key role supporting power plant and gas storage projects, outages and maintenance activities across Uniper UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply in the UK and deliver Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer based in the South East but is expected to provide support at any UK location to fill a discipline specific role. This is an exciting time to join the team and represents an opportunity for the right individual to work with a diverse mix of both established and new power plant technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity offering development and experience on a massive scale, supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations. We are Uniper.At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Responsibilities

• Leadership and delivery of projects and outages, identifying and managing stakeholders across Uniper's functional organisation and supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest standard of HSSE and Quality performance.


• Undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations, across a broad range of process plant and electrical systems in support of performance against KPIs (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).


• Proven capability to lead project teams and complex projects.


• Ensure best practice is employed and shared across Uniper sites by networking and benchmarking comparisons with plants, departments, engineers, industries and Uniper teams to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capex.


• Responsible for defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.


• Establishment and delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.


• Actively promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness and quality; seek out improvements in all these areas and contribute to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.


• Education to Higher National Diploma or Degree level in an Electrical Engineering discipline, with sound technical knowledge of engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.


• Apply knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to NEBOSH Certificate level or recognised equivalent in a practical manner.


• Experience in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, HV transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems to manage system and equipment risks.


• Strong interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.


• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills to enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.


• Knowledge and demonstration of project management tools and techniques to ensure projects are defined and agreed to optimise business value.


• Organisational, contract and project management skills to run several contracts within a project involving on/off site working including HSE and quality, as well as the commercial and technical issues.


• Full and clean UK driving licence.

Desirable

• Use and knowledge of lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.


• APMP or Prince 2 project management qualification.


• Knowledge and competence of using SAP based systems.


• Experience of working in a fast paced environment.


• A sound understanding of power plant operations and current regulations affecting management and operations of power plant engineering assets.

Qualifications and Skills

• Full and detailed knowledge of power plant operations and assets.


• Strong interpersonal, communication, planning and organisational skills.


• Ability to apply project management principles and challenge to optimise value.


• Working knowledge of health, safety, environmental legislation and standards.

Benefits

• Competitive salary


• Personal development and learning opportunities


• Enhanced company pension with up to 12% company contributions


• 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays


• Electric vehicle charging at sites


• In-house Occupational Health Services


• Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service


• Performance related benefits


• Flexible benefits (Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, buy/sell extra holiday)


• Future career opportunities with a strong focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion