Overview

Lead Electrical Engineer role at Uniper. The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team supports 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 delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for an experienced Lead Electrical Engineer based in the South East, with coverage to support at any UK location to fill a discipline-specific role. This is an exciting time to join the team and offers development and experience across diverse power plant technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities.

Location: South East UK (flexible to UK-wide site support)

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving and investigations across a broad range of process plant and electrical systems to support performance against KPIs (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance and compliance).
• Demonstrate and develop extensive knowledge and skills in varied electrical engineering and maintenance activities of a complex, non-routine nature to maximise resource utilisation and plant availability.
• Lead project teams and complex projects; promote best practice across Uniper sites by networking and benchmarking with plants, departments, engineers, industries, and Uniper teams to optimise performance, revenue and capex.
• Define scopes of work and develop technical and contract specifications; establish and deliver contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control.
• Promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness and quality; contribute to their development, planning and delivery for Asset Support and Uniper.

Your Profile

Essential

• Educated to Higher National Diploma or Degree level in Electrical Engineering with strong technical knowledge in engineering, project management and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• Working knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards, with practical application to NEBOSH Certificate level or recognised equivalent.
• Experience in power plant or equivalent electrical engineering including generators, motors, HV transformers, switchgear and HV distribution systems; ability to maintain, understand and manage system and equipment risks.
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration within the team, across functions and with senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication, planning and organisational skills for task prioritisation and resource management.
• Knowledge and ability to apply project management tools and techniques; capable of challenging to ensure projects are well defined and value is optimised.
• Organisational, contract and project management skills to run several contracts within a project, covering health, safety, environmental, quality, commercial and technical issues; including on/off-site work.
• Full and clean UK driving licence.

Desirable

• Experience with lean tools for root-cause resolution.
• APMP or Prince2 project management qualification.
• Knowledge of SAP-based systems.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of power plant operations and current regulations affecting management and operation of power plant engineering assets.

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