Engineering and Maintenance Manager - EfW Power Station

Astute’s Power team is partnered with a market leading Energy company to recruit an Engineering & Maintenance Manager for their Energy from Waste Power Station in Croydon, South London.

The vital Engineering & Maintenance Manager role comes with a basic salary of circa £73,000 + a South East living allowance of £4,694 per annum + bonus + benefits.

If you’re an Engineering/Maintenance Manager and are looking to work for an organisation that puts integrity and people at the forefront of everything it does, then submit your CV to apply today.

Responsibilities and Duties

Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will be responsible for:

1. Leading, training, and developing a team of multi-skilled engineers and technicians responsible for maintaining all plant equipment to the highest of standards to ensure maximum availability.
2. Liaising with the Operations Manager and site Engineers for the purpose of plant improvement, modification, and upgrade work.
3. Planning and managing plant outages.
4. Managing the maintenance department’s budget.
5. Developing the site's out of hours maintenance cover arrangements.

Professional Qualifications

We are looking for someone with the following:

1. Ideally having a HNC minimum qualification in an engineering discipline such as Mechanical, Electrical, Controls and Instrumentation, etc.
2. Ideally a formal health and safety qualification such as IOSH or NEBOSH.

Experience, Knowledge and Personal Skills

The Engineering & Maintenance Manager role would suit someone who has:

1. Supervisory or management experience in a Maintenance/Engineering role on a power station or similar heavy process environment such as Power Generation (EfW, Biomass, CCGT, Coal, etc.), Paper Mills, Refineries, Petrochemical, etc.
2. Strong knowledge of pressure systems safety regulations (PSSR) would be ideal.
3. Experience working with rotating plant and steam boilers.
4. Knowledge of environmental permits, H&S issues, and safe working environments.
5. Experience of managing budgets.

Salary and Benefits

Salary and benefits of the Engineering & Maintenance Manager role:

1. Basic salary of c.£73,000.
2. South East living allowance of £4,694 per annum.
3. Bonus.
4. Other excellent benefits.

INDPOW

Astute People are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and comply with all relevant UK legislation. We encourage applications from individuals from all backgrounds but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Astute is also committed to the government's Disability Confident Employer initiative. We endeavour to get back to everyone, however, if you have not heard anything after 7 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.