Lead Electrical Engineer

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!

Your responsibilities

We are looking for people who can bring a flexible, enthusiastic approach, are highly self-motivated, conscientious and can demonstrate ownership of issues through to the implementation of solutions at any of our assets across the UK.

You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied electrical engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature in such a way as to maximise resource utilisation and power plant availability. You must display capacity for individual responsibility and autonomy while demonstrating exemplary commitment to HSSE and Quality cultures.

Key Activities

• Utilising your skills and experience to 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 standard of HSSE and Quality performance.
• You will undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations, across a broad range of process plant and systems in support of performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
• You will have the proven capabilities to lead project teams.
• You will 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 capital expenditure.
• You will be responsible for defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
• Your attention to detail will ensure the establishment and delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• You will actively 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

• You will be educated to a Higher National Diploma or Degree level in an Electrical Engineering discipline, supported with a sound technical knowledge of engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• You will be able to apply your good working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards to NEBOSH Certificate level or a recognised equivalent in a practical manner.
• Your experience in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems, will enable you to correctly maintain, understand and manage system and equipment risks.
• Your strong interpersonal skills will enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Your excellent communication, planning and organisational skills will enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.
• You will have in depth knowledge, understanding and be able to demonstrate application of project management tools and techniques, with the skills to appropriately challenge ensuring projects are suitably defined and agreed to optimise business value.
• Your organisational, contract and project management skills enable you to run several contracts within a project which involve on/off site working including the health, safety, environmental and quality aspects as well as the commercial and technical issues.
• Full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable

• Use and knowledge of best practice 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, knowledge of current regulations and policy which affect the management and operations of power plant engineering assets.

Your qualities

At Uniper, we not only 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, together 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.

Your contact

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager at dominic.lindsey@uniper.energy. Please note, any CV’s sent via email would not be taken into consideration. All CV’s 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.