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.

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:

1. 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.
2. 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).
3. You will have the proven capabilities to lead project teams.
4. 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.
5. You will be responsible for defining scopes of work and developing both technical and contract specifications.
6. Your attention to detail will ensure the establishment and delivery of contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
7. 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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Your strong interpersonal skills will enable effective working relationships within the team, across business functions and with senior stakeholders.
5. Your excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills will enable effective task prioritisation and resource management.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable:

1. Use and 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. 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 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 would not be taken into consideration. All CVs must be submitted via the online application process only.