C&I Project Engineer

Uniper; Enfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK is seeking a Controls & Instrumentation Projects Engineer to support power generation and storage projects. This role involves delivering engineering solutions, leading project teams, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Control & Instrumentation and strong problem-solving skills, with opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge in C&I engineering and maintenance work.
• Good working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Ability to investigate issues and apply engineering resolutions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver projects and outages, ensuring compliance with HSSE and Quality standards.
• Lead project teams and manage stakeholders across Uniper’s organization.
• Promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness, and quality.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Higher National Diploma or Degree in Control & Instrumentation

Tools

SAP

Job description

The Asset Support and Outage Excellence Team UK plays a key role supporting power plant and gas storage projects, outages, and maintenance activities across Uniper's UK and Swedish assets. The role is high-profile in helping to ensure security of supply and delivering Uniper's business strategy to accelerate the energy transition. We are looking for a Controls & Instrumentation (C&I) Projects Engineer to fulfill a discipline-specific role. It is an exciting time to join the team, with the prospect for the right individual to work with a diverse mix of both established and new power plant and technology on advanced power stations and storage facilities. This is a tremendous opportunity, offering development and experience on a large scale supporting assets and teams across power generation and storage stations.

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 and Sweden.

You will be capable of demonstrating and developing extensive knowledge and skills in a range of varied C&I engineering and maintenance work activities of a complex and non-routine nature to maximize resource utilization and station/facility availability. You must display capacity for individual responsibility, self-motivation, and autonomy while demonstrating exemplary commitment to Uniper’s HSSE and Quality culture.

• Utilize your skills and experience to deliver projects and outages, identify and manage stakeholders across Uniper’s organization and supply chain, ensuring process and regulatory compliance with the highest HSSE and Quality standards.
• Undertake proactive and reactive work, including fault finding, problem solving, and investigations across a broad range of process plant and systems to support performance against Key Performance Indicators (safety, time, cost, quality, technical performance, and compliance).
• Lead project teams as required, depending on project complexity.
• Share best practices across Uniper sites by networking and benchmarking with plants, departments, engineers, industries, and teams to achieve optimal performance, revenue, and capital expenditure.
• Define scopes of work and develop technical and contract specifications.
• Ensure contractor Quality Assurance and Quality Control through meticulous attention to detail.
• Promote a culture of health, safety, environmental awareness, and quality; seek improvements in these areas and contribute to their development, planning, and delivery.

Your profile

Essential

• Higher National Diploma or Degree in a Control & Instrumentation related discipline, supported by knowledge of engineering, project management, and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• Good working knowledge of health, safety, and environmental legislation and standards, supported by IOSH Managing Safely/NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent.
• Understanding of complex C&I process system operations, current regulations, and policies affecting process plant engineering assets.
• Ability to investigate issues, determine root causes, and apply engineering resolutions to complex C&I process systems, demonstrating compliance with change management processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills for effective collaboration within teams and with stakeholders.
• Effective communication, planning, and organizational skills for task prioritization and resource management.
• Knowledge of project management tools and techniques.
• Organizational, contract, and project management skills to oversee contracts during projects or outages, including health, safety, environmental, quality, commercial, and technical aspects.
• Full and clean UK driving license.

Desirable

• Functional Safety (IEC61508/61511) and/or Cyber Security for Industrial and Control Systems (OG86).
• Knowledge of lean tools for resolving engineering issues to root cause.
• Experience with management, fault finding, and troubleshooting of DCS and PLC systems.
• Management of alarms and simulations.
• Knowledge and experience with SAP systems.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.