Maintenance Engineer (Mechanical)

Uniper SE; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK seeks a Maintenance Operations Manager to oversee activities across multiple sites. The role involves ensuring compliance with safety and operational standards while leading a culture of continuous improvement. Candidates should have a Higher National Certificate in Engineering and extensive experience in power plant operations. The position offers a competitive salary and numerous benefits including a company pension, annual leave, and personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Personal development and learning opportunities

Enhanced company pension with up to 12% contributions

26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

Electric vehicle charging

Company funded Private Medical Insurance

Performance related benefits

Access to flexible benefits packages

Future career opportunities with a focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Qualifications

• Extensive technical knowledge of power plant operations, engineering, and maintenance.
• Understanding of health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Ability to drive safety culture and possess safety management qualification.

Responsibilities

• Manage and co-ordinate M&O teams to ensure delivery of maintenance strategies.
• Engage in planning and scheduling maintenance activities according to procedures.
• Lead culture of health, safety, and environmental management.

Skills

Technical knowledge of power plant operations

Health, safety and environmental management

Planning and organizing skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Financial, commercial and contract management skills

Ability to think rationally under pressure

Education

Higher National Certificate level in Engineering or equivalent

Tools

SAP

Job description

Assist in managing and co-ordinating the activities of the M&O teams and contractors to ensure delivery of the maintenance and operations strategy for the EGTL >2000MW (multi-location) asset. This includes the planning and delivery of minor projects, breakdown and opportunity outages.

Responsibilities

• Own the maintenance performance of the designated planner group(s) across EGTL
• Engage in the planning and scheduling of site maintenance and operations activities in compliance with company and local procedures.
• Manage and report on key technical and maintenance performance indicators to deliver the asset health standards.
• Lead a culture of health, safety and environmental management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of M&O plans and drive productivity improvement.
• Lead a culture of quality management in planning and delivering the M&O plans.
• Ensure compliance with company and local procedures.
• Lead the review of maintenance spares holdings and stock level optimisation.
• Lead the delivery management of maintenance contracts in full compliance with defined contract roles and nominations.
• Support the Governance & Strategy Team to develop efficient and effective contracting strategies.
• Lead all short-term breakdown and opportunity outages and provide support to long term planned outages to ensure they are delivered safely to programme, budget, and quality within Outage Best Practice.
• Lead the selection, ongoing assessment and development of Uniper apprentices.
• Ensure best practice is employed by networking and benchmarking comparisons with other departments, plants, engineers, industries and Uniper teams (Asset Management, Procurement, Finance) to achieve optimum levels of performance, revenue and capital expenditure.

Qualifications

• Desired Education to a Higher National Certificate level in Engineering or equivalent.
• Extensive technical knowledge of power plant operations, engineering and maintenance practices gained through experience.
• An understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation and standards and a positive safety mind set possessing the ability to drive the correct safety culture in others including a safety management qualification (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health - Managing Safely ).
• Full understanding of and ability to deliver SAP & Maintenance best practice.
• Planning and organising skills to include effective prioritising, resource management and a long term strategic focus.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to enable effective working relationships with the ability to effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
• Sound financial, commercial and contract management skills.
• The confidence to challenge established practices, suggesting imaginative solutions to problems.
• Knowledge of current policies and procedures which affect the management and operations of engineering assets & CCGT Fleet Management Centre.
• Able to think rationally but act positively when under pressure.
• Able to identify and analyse situations by isolating key issues evaluating relevant data and drawing appropriate conclusions.

About Uniper and Benefits

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!

• Competitive salary
• Personal development and Learning opportunities
• Enhanced company pension - With up to 12% company contributions
• 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Electric vehicle charging at our sites
• In house Occupational Health Services
• Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service
• Performance related benefits
• Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday
• Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!