EC&I Team Leader

EDF Energy; Morecambe; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy is seeking an EC & I Team Leader to lead the maintenance of Steam Turbines and support fleet generator assets. This role involves managing a team, ensuring safety standards, and driving performance in a dynamic environment to contribute to the UK's energy future.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Health insurance

Gym membership

Qualifications

• Experience supervising maintenance teams in power generation or heavy industry.
• Hands-on experience with large electrical generators.
• Understanding of outage and work management processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 6 technicians for plant maintenance.
• Responsible for safety, effectiveness, and quality of work.
• Support continuous improvement and communicate daily priorities.

Skills

Team Leadership

Safety Awareness

Maintenance Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

HNC/D or Project Management Certification

Job description

About the Role

EC & I Team Leader

Are you ready to lead from the front and make a real impact in the future of low-carbon energy? Join our Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group at EDF UK, where your leadership will help power millions of homes. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-performance environment and is passionate about safety, innovation, and teamwork. If you're driven to inspire others and deliver excellence, this could be the opportunity for you.

At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part be of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero.

The opportunity

As a Team Leader in the Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Team, you’ll carry out the maintenance of Steam Turbines, Generators and associated plant at various EDF sites. Your responsibilities as an EC&I Team Leader will be to lead the EC&I team and support the fleet’s generator assets, as wells as their auxiliary systems and associated electrical generation equipment. In the business, you will report directly to the Fleet Turbine & Maintenance Group Manager and work closely with Engineering, Work Management, Supply Chain and Contract Partners, whilst maintaining a key interface with our station maintenance departments. This is your chance to be part of a pioneering project, where your leadership will directly contribute to the success of the UK’s energy future.

Your base location will be at our Heysham 2 Power Station, however we support the UK wide fleet and travel to our other locations may at times be required.

Pay, Benefits & Culture

The salary range associated with this role is between £60,688 to £81,267, we offer a competitive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, and a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What You’ll Be Doing

As the EC&I Team Leader you will:

• Lead and manage a team of 6 technicians to deliver plant maintenance, taking responsibility for the safety, effectiveness, productivity and quality of work.
• Support your team to ensure staffing levels & resources are available to accomplish planned maintenance & emergent work requests within agreed time scales.
• Be responsible for the delivery of the workweek plans or outage plan.
• Performing appraisals to actively develop the team.
• Walk down the equipment before the execution of work. To identify procedural / package deficiencies spares anomalies or obstacles effecting the work execution.
• Spend sufficient time in the field monitoring, observing and assessing Operations Technicians & Semi-Skilled Technicians.
• Actively perform & monitor:
  • Setting to work and pre job briefings and application of Human performance tools.
  • Work practices
  • Training & qualification processes
  • Application of industrial safety practices
• Support and ensure appropriate & effective interactions with work management & quality systems.
• Support the daily priorities & clearly communicating these.
• Reinforce positive attitudes & nuclear professionalism behaviours that improve performance and achieve a safe working environment of Zero Harm.
• Support continuous improvement

Who You Are

You bring experience in supervising maintenance teams within large, complex environments working with large electrical generators and electrical equipment —ideally in power generation or heavy industry.

You understand how to influence and engage stakeholders to meet business goals, and you’re confident navigating internal systems like finance, supply chain, and planning tools.

You’re safety-conscious and proactive, with a solid understanding of outage and work management processes. You’ve likely spent at least a year working with turbines and have a strong foundation in technical operations or engineering, with a proven ability to lead through people.

While qualifications like an HNC/D or project management certification are desirable, what matters most is your hands-on experience, your leadership mindset, and your commitment to excellence. You’re commercially aware, people-focused, and ready to take the next step in your career.

Closing date for applications is 24th June, interviews will follow shortly after.

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