Lead Electrical Engineer

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team plays 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 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 ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in 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 look forward to meeting you!

Your Responsibilities

1. Lead and deliver projects and outages, identifying and managing stakeholders across Uniper’s functional organisation and supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest standards of HSSE and Quality performance.
2. Undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving, and investigations, across a broad range of process plants and systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance, and compliance).
3. Lead project teams effectively.
4. Ensure best practices are 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 capital expenditure.
5. Define scopes of work and develop both technical and contract specifications.
6. Establish and deliver contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
7. Promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness, and quality; seek out improvements in all these areas and directly contribute to their development, planning, and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your Profile

Essential

1. Educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in an Electrical Engineering discipline, supported by sound technical knowledge of engineering, project management, and maintenance practices gained through experience.
2. Good working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation and standards, with NEBOSH Certificate level or a recognised equivalent.
3. Experience in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering, including generators, motors, transformers, switchgear, and HV distribution systems.
4. Strong interpersonal skills for effective working relationships within the team, across business functions, and with senior stakeholders.
5. Excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills for effective task prioritisation and resource management.
6. In-depth knowledge and application of project management tools and techniques.
7. Organisational, contract, and project management skills to run several contracts within a project.
8. Full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable

1. Knowledge of best practice lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause level.
2. APMP or Prince 2 project management qualification.
3. Knowledge and competence of using SAP-based systems.
4. Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
5. Sound understanding of power plant operations, current regulations, and policies affecting the management and operations of power plant engineering assets.

Your Qualities

At Uniper, we reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension, and health-related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper is committed to providing special support to certain areas:

1. Competitive salary
2. Personal development and learning opportunities
3. Enhanced company pension – With up to 12% company contributions
4. 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
5. Electric vehicle charging at our sites
6. In-house Occupational Health Services
7. Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service
8. Performance related benefits
9. Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday
10. Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your Contact

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager at dominic.lindsey(at)uniper.energy. Please note, any CVs sent via email will not be taken into consideration. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.

Job Information

Contract type: Unlimited
Working Hours: Full Time
Start Date: ASAP
Salary: £59,000 - £84,000

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity, or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.